The Role of the Agile Scrum Master

Is it a fire drill every time you’re asked to explain to stakeholders how your development investments are progressing because information is scattered across Jira instances and projects that all look different? Is the process of gathering and reporting on the data completely manual and error prone? What if instead of a fire drill you had an automated, scalable single source of truth for all of your data?

We provide a single source of truth, above the many Jira instances that have grown inside your organization, and we can do it in a way that allows your teams to continue to use Jira as their preferred tool. Rally has been helping the largest companies in the world successfully transform and scale agile for over 20 years.

Join Ana Steele and John Carroll as we talk about the role enterprise visibility plays in today's challenging business environment and the path forward to achieve that visibility while limiting disruption around teams using Jira for their day-to-day work.

The magnitude of hosting a fully remote PI Planning event is large, and many of us pivoted to that new challenge in 2020. It’s time to reflect on the patterns that we have seen emerge, and continue to improve how we orchestrate remote PI Planning. We share our best practices for enabling effective remote [or distributed] PI Planning based on the battle-scars we got and lessons learned.

The reality is the shift from Project to Products starts with Annual Planning. If that is going to happen your organization needs to start now with discussions on end state and how you are going to get your people, process, and technology set up to achieve this transformation. In this session, we will be tackling the broad concept of Annual Planning and giving recommendations on what you need to do now to realize Digital Product Management.

Have you ever had more ideas than you can actually deliver? I know, stupid question. Everyone has more ideas than they can ever deliver, and that’s why you need exceptional command of your demand management, prioritization and approval process. It’s so important, it’s the topic of our latest Linda’s Corner. Everything you needed to know on the subject and some bad jokes, in less than 15 minutes.

Working as a team is critical to any business success. Clarity lets you fund, staff, and manage work for your development and business teams, using staffing views for ad-hoc changes and capacity planning, scoreboards to manage team level to-do's, and easy-to-use collaboration for faster decisions. Learn more about working with teams in Clarity with Mary Lichtenauer, Broadcom Solutions Engineer and Clarity expert as she takes us through the business benefits.

Learn how to effectively model your organizational structure in Rally. A fundamental requirement for any organization scaling agile, the ability to plan and track work across all phases of the product development life cycle is dependent on how information both flows and gets elaborated across different planning horizons managed by different teams at all levels. When you model the organizational hierarchy properly [in Rally], then Rally automatically provides powerful data flows and roll-ups to facilitate the planning, tracking and governance ceremonies at all levels in the end-to-end product lifecycle. Join us as we talk about the Rally Organizational Hierarchy best practices and provide a live demonstration to help learn by doing/example. Get ready to go from ‘Good’ to ‘Great’ with Rally.

Wow, another year has passed and 2021 is full of lots of enhancements. We changed our release cadence to February, May, August and November. Join us and learn what’s new!

SAFe® PI Planning increases communication, collaboration and visibility by
helping teams in the Agile Release Train (ART) synchronize, collaborate, and align on workflows, objectives, releases, and more. But how do you know that you are getting the most out of your PI Planning? Are you and your teams adequately prepared going into the event? And what happens after the big planning event?

In this session Rally Solution Engineers Jarrod Reed and Jason Deno will share best practices for the before, during and after PI Planning and will show how Rally Software equips you to be successful at all three so you can get the most out of your PI Planning.

Rally users have a universal need to get information from the platform and customize the data to provide the information to make informed decision. Join Sagi Gabay and Aaron Rusty Lloyd for an informative session on how you can leverage queries and filters to customize Rally to get the data you need, when you need it.

This session will cover Rally filters and queries as they pertain to Rally apps deployed on your dashboard and custom pages. Many of these apps leverage Rally queries and filters to help you fine tune the information as it applies to your needs. We will also introduce Rally’s Object Model and equip you with the vocabulary and the know-how to develop your own Rally queries and deploy them into your apps.

That Clarity handles project management is hardly earth shattering news, we know, but do you realize just how well Clarity handles project management? In the latest episode of Linda’s Corner, we learn how easy it is to ensure consistency across hundreds or thousands of initiatives, adjust allocations and tasks, manage finances, and track and report on all of the above. It’s so simple and intuitive Linda explains all of that in just a few minutes! #EveryoneLovesClarity

Text messaging was the unplanned killer app for the phone because it was simple and removed objective friction. Come learn what surprisingly simple Clarity capabilities and efforts are tipping user adoption and data accuracy from sporadic and forced to viral value.

This time Linda shows us how to get the right people on the right job. Juggling labor and non-labor resources can be challenging, so Linda takes extra care to explain how to simplify the process in Clarity.

One of the toughest aspects of investment planning is scheduling the right people, for the right job, at the right time. Team versus individuals, hard or soft bookings, roles and locations – resource capacity planning is a juggling act that requires skills and experience, which long-time Clarity customers Cerner, Erie Insurance Group, Voya Financial and Montefiore Medical Center will share with us during this live on webcast.

To stay ahead of the competition, it’s wise to not only to stay on top of the competitors in your market, but to stay on top of new capabilities in your software solutions. Clarity releases every quarter and includes numerous enhancements for Transforming Project Management, Reinventing Resource Management, Top-down Planning, Lifecycle Management and Customer Voice. Join us and stay ‘On Top” of what’s new!

In this episode of Linda’s Corner, Linda Chase shows us how Broadcom’s Clarity platform supports the creation of powerful budgets and cost plans, while allowing for different views of the data for different users. She also shows the ease with which analysis of actual expenditure can be performed from macro-level summaries to individual transactions. #EveryoneLovesClarity

One of the reasons projects have difficulties in retaining stakeholder engagement is that those stakeholders don’t think in terms of projects. The project is simply the vehicle the business uses to implement change. What stakeholders care about is the impact of that change on the business. That’s what DPM delivers – aligning the work being done with the ways an organization achieves value – the digital products and the value streams those products roll up to. Join us and learn.

The way companies organize to bring products and solutions to market is being rewritten. Join this 30 minute webinar to learn about how organizations are shifting to a customer-centric view to deliver business outcomes.