Rally Software® + Agile Services

Business Challenges

In today’s application economy, increasing your speed to market and delivering an amazing, high-quality customer experience are more important than ever. Agile practices help organizations improve productivity, predictability, quality, and responsiveness. This creates happy customers and an engaged, enthusiastic workforce. Businesses that employ agile practices find it easier to produce great, innovative products.

Put simply, Agile shortens development cycles. It minimizes risks, eliminates waste, and ensures that you are always working on the most important needs of the business. However, even when you understand these benefits, building a great agile business is not easy. Simply buying a platform such as Rally that supports agile principles doesn’t make you agile. What does is getting started quickly and correctly to enable teams to minimize time to market and maximize sustained value.

Benefits To Your Organization

Key Outcomes

Good data capture and proper, consistent usage from the beginning helps you get the best return from your platform investment.

Unprecedented transparency improves team performance, coordination, risk management, and value delivery.

Better agile practices from day one mean effective teams build the right things right, delighting your customers.

Services Details

• Audience: Delivery team members, scrum masters, product owners, product managers, agile coaches, agile program managers and Rally administrators
• Agile maturity: New
• Maximum attendees: 25
• Length: 5 days

Offering Overview

Rally QuickStart provides everything you need to successfully get started with agile and Rally. Teams are enabled quickly, which minimizes time to market and maximizes sustained value. This service is targeted to clients new to Agile or Rally or to clients who would like to refresh or restart.

The offering provides basic agile training and Rally configuration. It also includes workspace configuration optimized for the client’s team and program structure, user training, team setup and team-level follow-up to ensure that best practices continue.

Orientation and Discovery

A session (or a series of sessions) with a Rally consultant to understand your organization’s current agile state, team structure, and unique business needs.

Rally Training

Understand how to configure and set up team (project) and work item hierarchies and establish timeboxes for iterations and releases. Be able to manage product backlogs of user stories, navigate views and work items, and build dashboards and custom pages.

Administration Workshop

Work with a Rally consultant to specialize and configure the platform for your own context and organizational needs.

Team Setup

Continued guidance from our Rally consultant to establish agile and Rally best practices such as team cadence, backlog development, story writing, and building and leveraging tailored team health dashboards.

Team-Level Follow-up

Additional sessions with the Rally consultant to review agile practices and platform utilization to ensure teams are using the applied learning techniques and to provide recommendations and answer questions.

Optional Services and Training

Technical Services Consulting

Extend Rally with tailored extensions and connectors. Our consultants provide guidance and work with you to shorten the learning curve and save time. Or our consultants can build what you need to drive flow and value.

Agile Training

Understand how agile methods reduce risk via incremental learning and delivery. Learn how planning shifts the focus from managing to planning continuously, steering toward results. Better understand how agile inspect-and-adapt cycles continuously improve both product and process.

Scrum/Kanban Team Launches

In these engagements, an Enterprise Studio agile consultant will coach a team through basic agile ceremonies, including iteration planning, daily standups, demo/review, and iteration retrospective. The consultant will provide support throughout the first iteration to help the team learn to operate in an agile environment. Team launches are specialized for Scrum or Kanban for maximum flexibility regardless of the agile approach desired.

Ready>Sync>Go

When you are rolling out Rally and Agile to a group of teams who need to coordinate as an agile delivery group, we recommend following QuickStart with Ready>Sync>Go so we can help the delivery group prepare for and execute their first program Increment.