At a Glance
Get started quickly and successfully with Rally Software and Agile using training and expert guidance in both processes and the platform from one of our world-class agile consultants. Teams build a common understanding about how to leverage agile practices to work together and reduce risk while providing incremental value.
They learn how to make the Rally platform a center for collaboration and value delivery, configuring it for their unique environment and learning best practices. This service package provides everything users need to jump-start a successful beginning to their agile journey with Winmill PPM.
Benefits To Your Organization
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.
About Winmill PPM
Winmill PPM simplifies the complexities of doing business and takes global organizations from idea to outcome by helping them build resilient enterprise solutions. Providing more than just software services, we also work with and become champions of the people needed to create global agile organizations that are ready for the digital future.
- Organizational Transformation and Enablement – Fast-track solution adoption to increase speed-to-value realization. Develop and support your leadership, people and processes undergoing organizational transformations.
- Broadcom Enterprise Software Professional Services – Implement flexible solutions in your distinct environment that delivers incremental value, accelerates idea-to-outcome process, and grows and adapts to your evolving business needs.
- Future-Proofing – Assist you with the development and execution of a clear plan for long-term success, no matter what the future holds for your business.
For more information, contact us at ppminfo@winmill.com.