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Enterprise Agile Planning

Drive Agile transformation your way

Planview’s enterprise Agile planning solution enables your delivery organization to embrace new ways of working, connect strategic plans and funding to Agile delivery, and successfully scale Agile to improve time to market, do more with the teams you have, and confidently invest in the right priorities.

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Why Planview?

Drive Agile transformation with Planview’s enterprise Agile planning software

The world is changing at a blistering pace. To survive, thrive, and stay ahead of competition, companies are in a race to foster innovation, achieve greater agility, speed time to market and make overall better business decisions. Achieving business agility has never been more critical. Planview’s enterprise Agile planning software empowers organizations like yours to scale Agile and drive Agile transformation by evolving the way products and services get to market, increasing team productivity, and confidently funding the outcomes that matter most to the business.

Deliver faster and more predictably

Connect and collaborate across your organization with shared outcomes and holistic strategy-to-execution visibility that speeds delivery and improves time-to-market predictability.

Do more with the teams you have

Reduce rework and workflow inefficiencies with shared goals, visual dependency management, WIP alerts, and capacity alignment to the priorities that matter most.

Confidently invest in the right priorities

Iteratively plan and fund to match strategy and change dynamics. Leverage scenarios and make trade-offs to build and confidently invest in the best plans.

Planview’s enterprise agile planning solution helps overcome 6 common obstacles to Agile transformation success:

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Time to market that is slow and/or unpredictable

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Funding and capacity constraints that hinder innovation and agility

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Frequent rework or missed work due to poor hand-offs, unseen dependencies, or too much WIP (work in progress)

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Lack of visibility into the priorities that matter most to the business

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Missed market opportunities due to slow pivot or change times

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Siloes across teams and departments preventing true collaboration and goal sharing

See Planview in action

Watch an on-demand demo and see how Planview’s enterprise agile planning solution can help you:

  • Use real-time insights to plan and prioritize dynamically
  • Capture market opportunities and drive growth through flexible, responsive planning strategies
  • Quickly replan and pivot in response to market shifts and disruptions
  • Maintain alignment and efficiency across teams, ensuring that resources are allocated to the most strategic objectives
  • Leverage your data to identify and address risks early and prevent costly delays
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Planview is a leader

You can count on Planview to drive enterprise agile planning innovation and deliver an exceptional solution. But don’t just take our word for it. See what industry analysts have to say.

Named a Leader in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Agile Planning Tools*

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We’ve helped organizations like yours realize the benefits of enterprise agile planning. See how.

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The Planview Platform for Connected Work is the foundation for solutions spanning a breadth of use cases.

  • Product And Value Stream Funding

    Fund what matters most

    Value Stream Funding
    Shift funding and enable different funding models from projects to persistent products, lines of business or value streams. Align and fund in accordance with strategic priorities.

    Prioritize funding to align to the delivery of strategic outcomes, while understanding the impact of trade-offs and alternative plans.

    • Allocate funds and budgets to map to OKRs and desired outcomes.
    • Reprioritize and reallocate funding iteratively or as needed, and analyze trade-offs with continuous planning.
    • Adjust funding across portfolios, products, or value streams to match priorities and goals.
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  • Planview.me Platform Experience

    Redefine how work gets done

    Planview.me Platform
    Break down organizational data silos with comprehensive visibility across your strategy, planning, and delivery data. Redefine how work gets done with personalized views that highlight insights, performance, and potential risks.

    Engage in a visually immersive, easy-to-use, streamlined Planview Platform user experience, tailored to you and the information you need to see.

    • Create unique views based on status, progress, and other data-oriented use cases needed to pinpoint where to focus, issues to address, and risks to mitigate
    • Bring data and insight transparency into all decisions and to all decision-makers within your organization
    • Power-up your productivity with the ability to action, investigate, respond, and react from a single screen and with a single click
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  • Scenario Planning And Funding

    Model change to make confident funding decisions

    Scenario Planning Interface
    Visualize and compare investment scenario impacts across the organization’s portfolios. Model trade-offs to create the optimal plan.

    Analyze current spend versus new demands and priorities in the context of the whole portfolio. Determine the best strategy by leveraging “what-if” scenarios to make your next business decision.

    • Create plan scenarios to model the impact of potential changes, balance trade-offs, and visualize the impacts.
    • Model different plans and funding decisions to easily compare and review.
    • Make decisions based on important organizational criteria such as: cost, risk, capacity, business impact, and overall business benefit.
    • Understand the impact of trade-off decisions on your ability to drive outcomes while considering organizational limits and parameters.
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  • Lean Portfolio Management

    Change the way your organization plans and funds

    Lean Portfolio Management
    Build agility by changing the way your organization operationally plans, funds, and delivers value with Lean Portfolio Management approaches.

    Rearchitect planning and funding processes to be more incremental and continuous. Leverage Lean Portfolio Management as a key enabler in connecting strategy to delivery and increasing enterprise agility.

    • Analyze Lean business cases to incrementally fund value streams and products and leverage real-time feedback loops to make quick pivot decisions.
    • Easily break down work into actionable plans; prioritize epics, fund value streams and pivot faster.
    • Incrementally fund value streams, products and/or initiatives to achieve the desired outcomes.
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  • Objectives And Key Results (OKRs)

    Drive priorities based on desired outcomes

    OKRs Dashboard
    Align around OKRs throughout your business to understand how objectives are pursued, connected, and shared.

    Promote an outcome-driven approach by harnessing the power of connected Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). Enhance visibility and alignment to realize business outcomes at every level – portfolio, value stream, program, and team – by enabling an OKR framework within the context of strategy, financials, and work. Streamline processes and unlock your organization’s potential by ensuring everyone is aligned with the right priorities.

    • Align objectives from the portfolio to the teams.
    • Prioritize work, funding, and capacity with desired outcomes.
    • Shift focus from outputs to measurable outcomes.
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  • Card Scoring

    Prioritize and rank work visually

    Card Scoring Interface
    Visually and relatively rank work on what matters most to you and your teams.

    Leverage customized criteria to visually and relatively rank work on the dimensions that match your goals. Provide transparency and confidence around priorities to give your organization clarity on what work should be approved, avoided and/or further researched.

    • Easily display prioritization results visually on cards on team and program boards.
    • Create custom ranking criteria to determine the priorities that matter most to you and your organization.
    • Visualize priorities and their relevance to each other.
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  • Instant Coffee

    Digital workspace for improved collaboration

    Instant Coffee Collaboration
    Collaborate in real time using virtual sticky notes on a configurable interface to structure meetings and plan next steps.

    Host Lean Coffee meetings, incremental planning sessions, retrospectives and more using a virtual canvas to facilitate conversations and share ideas. Transfer cards into team boards to put ideas or plans into action.

    • Quickly build out ideas, discussion points or action plans across internal or external stakeholders.
    • Divide the canvas into relevant sections, vote on ideas, and add notes.
    • Leverage the built-in timer to keep conversations and discussion on track.
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  • Team Of Teams Planning (PI Planning)

    Coordinate planning across value stream teams

    PI Planning Interface
    Plan and coordinate across virtual or co-located teams.

    Do Program Increment (PI) Planning or quarterly planning to plan, coordinate and deliver work across multiple teams leveraging visual Kanban boards to manage, track and connect work.

    • Connect teams working in a mix of Agile tools and configurations with a single, highly configurable program or teams-of-teams board for cross-team planning and collaboration.
    • Use the visualization of the Kanban boards to balance priorities, sequence work, and communicate realistic delivery.
    • Leverage visual “red strings” to highlight dependencies and sequence work accordingly to alleviate risks.
    • Quickly create new lanes, card types and board types to better reflect work flows and work delivery needs.
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  • Agile Integrations

    Connect teams and their work to the portfolio

    Agile Integrations Dashboard
    Allow Agile teams to connect their tool of choice into a program or teams-of-teams board with ease – enabling them to continue delivering value without disruption.

    No matter what tool teams use, Planview’s Agile integrations give Agile teams tool choice and flexibility, enabling them to deliver faster and to achieve the benefits of Agile more rapidly at scale.

    • Connect multiple delivery teams using disparate Agile execution tools and processes.
    • Drive portfolio alignment and stakeholder feedback by creating visibility into the flow of work and enabling collaboration across teams to ensure alignment with company initiatives.
    • Give teams the ability to define their own processes and leverage existing Agile execution tools and work methodologies.
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  • Agile Program Management

    Make work visual and connected

    Agile Program Management
    Allow teams and release trains to plan, manage, coordinate, and deliver value in a highly visual way.

    Give your Agile teams a way to visualize, plan, coordinate, and deliver your organization’s biggest initiatives quickly, effectively, and with clear insight into the value delivered.

    • Effectively bring together and visually manage the work of multiple teams.
    • Map dependencies between teams and ARTs with visual “strings”.
    • Drag and drop cards to sequence features and stories based on capacity and other key milestones.
    • Gain visibility, insight, and an understanding of work in progress and workflow across Agile teams and ARTs.
    • Leverage built-in Lean and Agile metrics to understand how teams are tracking and performing.
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  • Portfolio And Value Stream Financials

    Use dynamic dashboards to action on value stream delivery

    Value Stream Financials
    Understand how portfolios and value streams are delivering against financial goals.

    Gain insight into value delivered across your value streams with real-time financial metrics. See how allocated funding based on outcome-driven indicators and KPIs is delivered across the portfolios and value streams.

    • Set the value stream budget and define benefits/revenue targets that the portfolio must generate.
    • Access funding changes and funding allocations over time, compare and analyze results.
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  • Agile Costing And Capitalization

    Eliminate timesheets and roll up Agile team costs

    Agile Costing Dashboard
    Measure actual spend and feed downstream capitalization based on team cost and progress.

    Eliminate manual reporting and reconciliation of time sheets and return productivity time back to the business.

    • Easily capture Agile team costs in real-time by automating actuals for better capitalization and reporting.
    • Use the status of Kanban cards and their moment on team boards to automatically track work at the story, feature, and epic level to capture Agile team costs across the enterprise.
    • Roll-up and translate work status and progress into a consolidated, fully auditable record of actual Agile costs.
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  • Roadmapping

    Interactive Roadmaps for Teams

    Interactive Roadmap
    Create living, interactive, and shareable roadmaps to enable one or more teams to stay up-to-date on strategy, vision and/or product direction.

    Build upon your outcome-driven planning journey by translating plans into a visual timeline for achieving your business outcomes and completing deliverables.

    Use shared interactive roadmaps to collaborate and communicate delivery expectations. Maintain clear alignment in context of the planning and delivery that is happening.

    • Create shareable roadmaps for one or more teams in your organization.
    • Provide stakeholders with clear visualization of current and proposed plans.
    • Keep in sync with visual indicators when plans and work are misaligned.
    • Proactively identify impacts and issues to plans before delivery is delayed.
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Enterprise Agile planning software capabilities

  • Ensure the organization is aligned to the strategic priorities that matter most.

    • Planview.Me

      Engage in a visually immersive, actionable, and personalized Planview Platform experience. Create unique views based on status, progress, and other data-oriented use cases you need to pinpoint where to focus, issues to address, and risks to mitigate. Take action, investigate, respond, and react with a single click inside a single curated view.

    • Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)

      Foster an outcome-based approach to strategy and delivery alignment by establishing a clear line of sight into connected work, from the portfolio to the teams, all within a single solution.

    • Lean Business Cases and Demand Intake

      Create a Lean business case to provide just enough information to identify priority initiatives and epics. Easily determine which priorities should be funded, and their potential business impact.

    • Digital Product Insights Dashboard

      Connect software delivery to business outcomes with visibility across the lifecycle of your strategy – from planning to delivery to business impact. Use proactive and predictive value stream management insights to pivot plans and drive on-time delivery.

    • Card Scoring & Prioritization

      Visually and relatively rank work on the criteria that matter most to you and your teams.

    • Backlog Management

      Manage the backlog from the portfolio to the teams. Drag and drop to add, adjust, groom, and prioritize backlog items to ensure the most valuable work is delivered first.

  • Plan and fund the right opportunities.

    • Interactive Roadmaps for Teams

      Translate plans into a visual timeline for achieving your business outcomes and completing deliverables. Use shared, interactive roadmaps to collaborate and communicate direction and expectations throughout delivery.

    • Product and Value Stream Funding

      Shift funding models from projects to persistent products, lines of business or value streams. Ensure teams, teams of teams and value streams are aligned and funded in accordance with strategic priorities.

    • Lean Budgeting

      Set Lean budget guardrails for any portfolio, value stream or investment horizon cohort. Determine the funding parameters and policies for incremental spend based on desired criteria.

    • Scenario Planning and Modeling

      Visualize and compare investment scenario impacts across the organization’s portfolios. Model trade-offs to create the optimal plan.

    • Capacity Planning

      Leverage capacity planning capabilities to plan portfolio, program and team capacity based on funding and desired outcomes.

    • Lean Portfolio Management

      Build agility by changing the way your organization operationally plans, funds, and delivers value. Analyze Lean business cases to incrementally fund value streams and products and leverage real-time feedback loops to make quick pivot decisions.

  • Understand the investments and portfolio financials that drive the business.

    • Portfolio Financials

      Track and manage a portfolio’s costs, benefits, and budget, at a glance.

    • Financial Forecasting

      Anticipate capacity and funding requirements by role, team, skill, and location to gain an early picture of future needs and the impact to costs and budgets.

    • Investment Analysis

      Automatically calculate financial metrics such as ROI, NPV, IRR, and payback period. Use insights to determine investment strategies.

    • Agile Costing and Capitalization

      Easily capture Agile team costs in real time by automating actuals for better capitalization and reporting.

  • Drive connection and collaboration across teams of teams to increase alignment and value delivery.

    • Instant Coffee

      Connect and collaborate in real-time using a built-in virtual whiteboard experience and support Lean Coffee, incremental planning, retrospectives and more.

    • Planning Series

      Centrally define planning and delivery increments and timelines for the organization and/or teams. Use time increments to standardize work and work cadences across teams and boards.

    • Teams of Teams Planning

      Do Program Increment (PI) Planning or Quarterly Planning to plan, coordinate and deliver work across multiple teams leveraging visual Kanban boards to manage, track and connect work.

    • WIP Limits

      Set limits on the number of cards that can be put in any lane or sub-lane on your board or define the number of items that can be assigned to each team member.

    • Card and Board Health

      Understand bottlenecks, delays and overall work item or team health using card and board metrics. Use insights to adjust priorities, manage flow and highlight risks.

    • Dependency Management and Visual

      See work and associated cross-team dependencies to proactively identify and mitigate potential delivery delays.

    • Agile Program Management

      Provide teams and teams of teams with a way to visualize, plan (do PI Planning/Quarterly Planning), and coordinate organizational initiatives quickly, effectively, and with clarity into the value delivered.

    • Agile Integrations

      Leverage the Agile integration capabilities to enable Agile teams in different and disparate Agile execution tools to visually plan, manage, and coordinate their work inside a single solution and with single view into all work.

    • Enterprise Kanban

      Use Kanban boards to visualize work, status, and dependencies between teams, to optimize workflow, improve velocity, and better prioritize efforts for more predictable delivery.

  • Track and measure outcomes and key metrics from the portfolio to the teams.

    • Portfolio Dashboards

      Provide high-level visibility into important metrics and KPIs in an easy to consume view spanning strategy, portfolios, value streams, epics/initiatives, products, and teams.

    • Lean and Agile Metrics

      Use built-in metrics to assess team performance, make sound strategic decisions, and promote continuous improvement without disrupting team productivity.

    • Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)

      Architect, structure and monitor objectives and key results to realize business outcomes at every level. Ensure funding, budgeting and capacity align to the key results that achieve the desired outcomes.

    • Planview Copilot

      Planview Copilot empowers employees from the team room to the board room with access, connection, and visibility into your organization’s data and the insights hidden within. Converse with and question your data using natural language to glean insights, derive recommendations based on best practices, and inform strategic decisions.

    • AI Help

      Unlock assistance on-demand with AI Help. Transform your Planview Platform experience with the AI Help in-app interface, providing plain text answers to your questions. Access thousands of pages of customer success center help articles and other product- or solution-specific documentation without ever leaving your screen.

    • Sentiment Analysis

      Understand whether a product, project, or work item is truly on track by analyzing the emotional tone and sentiments of comment and status text as well as computational linguistics behind aggregated comments over time. Use the sentiment scores to reveal positive, neutral, or negative insights and make plan or work pivots before delivery is impacted.

    • Summarizers

      Increase efficiency and productivity across your teams. Turn daily and weekly reporting chores into auto-generated insights. Use AI summarizers to save time, enhance knowledge, and provide actionable information by summarizing risks, issues, and work in progress, and even building release notes with the click of a button.

    • Optimizations & Simulations

      Unlock scenario planning and dive into a realm of ‘what-if’ scenarios and trade-off analyses. Explore multiple avenues to pinpoint the most efficient and effective allocation of your capital and capacity for peak performance and strategic success.

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