"As an agile development veteran, I was looking for a tool that was simple to use, flexible, and adaptable to our particular circumstances - at a price point that provided significant value. V1: Agile Enterprise delivered this immediately."
Bob Schatz, VP & Chief Development Officer Solstice Software (now Green Hat Software)
Regardless of the number of agile projects, releases, or teams, or the size of the backlog, V1: Agile Enterprise supports the entire range of product planning activities that help teams deliver market-ready software.
By keeping project work aligned to strategic goals, responding to changing business needs, and incorporating feedback from stakeholders, teams are assured that products being delivered are the right ones that customers need. Product planning in V1: Agile Enterprise enables the entire range of agile product planning activities:
Requirements Management of stories that introduce new features or describe product enhancements
Requests from customers, sales, or other external stakeholders for new or enhanced features
Epics or large-feature breakdown and tracking through releases or among teams
Goals that meet strategic business or financial targets within or across projects
Feature groups or themes that roll-up progress against functionally related items that may span sprints or projects
Defect Management to assign and track defects to correct an identified problem
Issues or impediments that could impact project delivery
Ranking: Easily Identifying the Highest-Value Features
Sequentially prioritize stories and defects from a business perspective in a consolidated backlog using either simple drag-and-drop or multi-select functionality that lets you move numerous items simultaneously. A single ordered ranking helps identify which features are the most valuable for all stakeholders and should be delivered first.
Simplify initial planning by defining and prioritizing large-grained features. As the team gets closer to working on the items, break these large features down into smaller backlog items, which are linked back to the higher-level story. Breaking epics into smaller stories allows them to be more easily spread across projects, releases, iterations, and teams.
Themes: Tracking Feature Groups Across Projects
Themes are functional rollups of stories and/or defects that are primarily used to track progress for a specified set of features. Feature groups can also be filtered for planning and tracking purposes.
Goals are measurable financial, customer-driven or other project-related targets teams can set up during product planning. Teams can map their project work to these strategic targets to help them prioritize features, while executives can understand which projects are supporting organizational goals.
