Forecast the future with SmartView predicted Epic due dates - new feature!

Charlie Ponsonby

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Co-founder & CEO

Press Release

Plandek’s SmartView for Epics has been upgraded to help you derive an up-to-date predicted delivery date to hit delivery deadlines.

We're thrilled to announce the launch of the new and improved SmartView for Epics, featuring predicted Epic due dates.

The problem: Larger bodies of work can easily run away from us, as scope changes and deadlines get pushed back, our desired outcomes start to look less achievable. Items often slip through the cracks and project initiatives steamroll, eating up more effort, disrupting longer term plans and causing more team frustration as pressure mounts.

The solution: SmartView uses real time intelligent analytics to enable you to track the delivery of your work across the entire toolchain. You can use SmartView at both Sprint and Epic level, depending on where you're focused, to spot any blockers and mitigate delivery risks.

SmartView for Epics can shed light on your most important initiatives, tracking your progress and using your historical data to spot potential issues as they emerge, highlighting them as insights, and enabling your team to have more time to mitigate risks so you can focus on achieving your goals. You will be better equipped to deal with issues as they arise.

The all new SmartView for Epics now includes a predicted delivery date to help you keep track of your Epics and know if you are going fast enough to hit your due date.

Key features

Build confidence in your planned delivery dates, thanks to:

Estimated delivery date
Planned delivery date tracking
New burnup and projection charts
New velocity charts and insights
New scope change charts

Regardless of whether you have a Scrum or Kanban workflow, SmartView for Epics will work for you! Book a demo to see it in action and how Plandek can help your team improve their predictability and accuracy of delivering software.

SmartView for Epics is available as a standalone product in our SmartDelivery plan, or as part of our Enterprise plan, along with the complete set of analytics tools from Plandek.

Register for our free webinar on SmartView for Epics new feature

Want to learn more about our new feature? Join our Toby Clarke, Product Manager for a SmartView for Epics overview, in our upcoming webinar.

When: 5th Dec 8am PST / 11am EST / 4pm GMT / 5pm CET

What we'll cover:

The key new features including estimated delivery date, required velocity
How to use the information to manage your Epic delivery
Any questions from you about using our new predictive epic due dates feature

Find out more and register for the webinar here >

About Plandek

Plandek is an intelligent analytics and performance improvement platform to help software delivery teams deliver valuable software, faster and more predictably.

Plandek works by mining data from delivery teams’ toolsets (such as issue tracking, code repos and CI/CD tools), to provide actionable and intelligent insight across the end-to-end software delivery process.

For enquiries or press releases, please contact:

Stacey Hirst: shirst@plandek.com
Gareth Wintle: gwintle@plandek.com
Jake Chapman: jchapman@plandek.com

Written by

Charlie Ponsonby

Co-founder & CEO

Charlie started his career as an economist working on trade policy in the developing world, before moving to Accenture in London. He joined the Operating Board of Selfridges, before moving to Open Interactive TV and then Sky where he was Marketing Director until leaving to found Simplifydigital in 2007. Simplifydigital was three times in the Sunday Times Tech Track 100 and grew to become the UK’s largest TV, broadband and home phone comparison service, powering clients including Dixons-Carphone, uSwitch and Comparethemarket. It was acquired by Dixons Carphone plc in April 2016. He co-founded Plandek with Dan Lee in 2018. Charlie was educated at Cambridge University. He lives in London and is married with three children.