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How Lucanet Achieved Predictability & Efficiency in Scrum with Plandek​

More predictable sprints & faster feature delivery

The Challenge: Unpredictability & scope creep slowing delivery

Content: Lucanet is a global software company specializing in solutions for the Office of the CFO, supporting finance teams worldwide. As they transitioned to a SaaS platform and expanded their offering, they needed to optimize their software delivery process to meet ambitious goals.

 

However, their scrum teams faced significant challenges:

  1. Unpredictable sprints – Releases were frequently delayed due to inefficient sprint planning.
  2. Mid-sprint scope changes – Stories were often added, removed, or adjusted, causing teams to lose focus.
  3. Oversized stories leading to carryover – Large, unmanageable tasks frequently spilled over into future sprints.

Lucanet’s leadership found that while teams had strong opinions on what was causing these inefficiencies, they lacked the data to back them up. They needed a data-driven approach to pinpoint the root causes and optimize their sprints.

The Solution: Measuring & optimizing sprint performance with Plandek

To tackle these challenges, Lucanet implemented Plandek’s advanced delivery intelligence platform to gain real-time visibility into their sprint performance. After working with the Plandek team, they identified two North Star Metrics that would help drive improvement:

  • Target Completion: Measures the percentage of planned story points completed by the end of a sprint, helping teams track how well they execute against their initial goals.
  • Relative Sprint Velocity: A more nuanced metric that considers both planned work and any additional story points brought into a sprint mid-execution—helping Lucanet understand whether teams were underestimating their true capacity.

By tracking these metrics and incorporating them into retrospectives and planning meetings, teams gained deeper insights into their performance and identified two key areas for improvement:

  • Teams were often completing their planned work early, indicating they were underestimating their true velocity.
  • Scope creep was frequent, and teams needed a structured way to manage mid-sprint changes.

The Results: Predictability, efficiency, & faster delivery

With these insights in hand, Lucanet took targeted action to improve their sprint process, leading to dramatic improvements in software delivery:

More predictable sprints – Higher sprint completion rates with fewer delays.

Optimized planning – More accurate sprint forecasts leading to increased efficiency.

Smarter decision-making – Data-driven insights enabled teams to adapt and perform at their peak.

By proactively tracking scope changes and adjusting sprint capacity accordingly, Lucanet’s teams gained control over their sprints, improved predictability, and accelerated delivery timelines.

The Plandek Difference

Plandek empowers engineering leaders and scrum teams with actionable insights to:

✔️ Improve delivery predictability – Plan sprints with confidence and reduce overruns.

✔️ Optimize cycle times – Identify bottlenecks and accelerate feature delivery.

✔️ Manage scope changes – Gain visibility into unplanned work and its impact.

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Includes:

  • Leadership dashboards to ensure resource is focused on value creation

  • North Star metrics to align your engineering organization

  • Stakeholder reporting to better communicate productivity improvements

Includes:

  • SmartView for Sprints and Epics – live dashboards highlighting delivery risks & blockers for teams, including DORA, Flow, VSM and many more

  • Available in our SmartDelivery plan from just $59 per month, or included in Plandek suite

Includes:

  • Track over 50 metrics, including DORA, Flow, VSM and many more

  • Improve performance and quality of delivery over time

  • Choose from OTB templates or build your own dashboards from scratch

Includes:

  • Highly customizable BI capability to test hypotheses, identify root-causes and solve delivery issues

  • Build your own ‘data lab’

  • Import custom time series data to overlay financial, HR, developer surveys or customer data with engineering metrics

Includes:

  • Leadership dashboards to ensure resource is focused on value creation

  • North Star metrics to align your engineering organization

  • Stakeholder reporting to better communicate productivity improvements

Includes:

  • SmartView for Sprints and Epics – live dashboards highlighting delivery risks & blockers for teams, including DORA, Flow, VSM and many more

  • Available in our SmartDelivery plan from just $59 per month, or included in Plandek suite

Includes:

  • Track over 50 metrics, including DORA, Flow, VSM and many more

  • Improve performance and quality of delivery over time

  • Choose from OTB templates or build your own dashboards from scratch

Includes:

  • Highly customizable BI capability to test hypotheses, identify root-causes and solve delivery issues

  • Build your own ‘data lab’

  • Import custom time series data to overlay financial, HR, developer surveys or customer data with engineering metrics