Customers

Reduce delivery risk of key programs

• End-to-end delivery metrics enable delivery leads to transform their understanding of the program’s delivery capability and risk
• Plandek surfaces insights not available from existing toolsets
• Plandek shows the key determinants of velocity, process efficiency, quality, deployment frequency and timing accuracy
• Ability to build a Delivery Risk Profile for a key program or workstream

Set metrics for new and high growth teams

• The ideal business intelligence tool to use when setting up a new Agile team (in-house or contractor)
• Create a balanced scorecard of delivery metrics around which the new team can adjust and improve over time for maximum Agility and effectiveness
• Teams can choose the metrics that suit them and create their own customised dashboards to drive their own self-improvement.

Better integrate outsource partners

• Genuine partnership (characterised by transparency and shared goals) is key to long term success with outsource partners
• Plandek provides an agreed set of end-to-end delivery metrics around which goals can be set and progress measured
• This transparent approach has proven to be highly effective, benefiting both clients and outsource partners alike.

Replace manual reporting

• Delivery teams often expend valuable energy preparing spreadsheets and manual data extracts from tools like Jira
• These reports are often time consuming, irregular (and so retrospective) and not always accurate
• Plandek enables delivery leads to choose the metrics that suit them and build their own customised dashboards with real-time analytics and drill-down
• These dashboards remove the effort of data collection and turn static reports into powerful, real-time management tools.

Early Agile – set teams up for success

• Plandek is an ideal tool for teams starting on their Agile journey
• Plandek provides a simple set of Agile metrics around which teams can establish their Agile workflow and processes
• Teams can choose the engineering, delivery and behavioural metrics that suit them as they customise their own dashboards
• Plandek enables new teams to track their increasing Agility over time, as they adjust and continually improve.

Scaling Agile – audits of SAFe readiness

• As Agile teams mature and grow, scaled Agile frameworks are often required to manage the increased complexity
• However, frameworks like SAFe only work effectively if the required level of consistency has been achieved across teams
• Plandek tracks teams’ readiness for inclusion in a scaled Agile framework like SAFe
• Delivery leads can choose the metrics they are most interested in and track progress over time by board and team.

All Agile – track the progress of your Agile transformation

• As Agile grows in importance within an organisation, the need to demonstrate its success can become more pressing
• Plandek’s comprehensive library of end-to-end delivery, engineering and behavioural metrics enable technology teams to demonstrate tangible improvement over time
• As the Manifesto states: Agile is all about “the early and continuous delivery of valuable software”. Plandek helps you demonstrate that you are doing just that.

Engineer engagement and feedback

• Plandek integrates with collaboration hubs like Slack, to enable engineers to give vital feedback at all points within the delivery cycle
• This feedback is quantified and is available to the teams themselves within their Plandek dashboards
• This empowers engineers and provides real-time insight to remove bottlenecks and improve relationships between the players across the end-to-end delivery process

Team Self-Improvement

• Agile is underpinned by the spirit of continuous self-appraisal, adjustment and improvement
• This is very hard to achieve when teams are focused on the relentless need to maintain velocity and meet delivery expectations
• Plandek enables teams to choose a simple set of Agile metrics that they can refer to in sprint retros. to track and celebrate improvement in keeping with the core principles of Agile.