Minimize Risk
Companies that deploy a mix of Agile and non-Agile software tools may do so because of regulatory and
compliance requirements. The rules that govern an organization may not support full Agile adoption. For
example, in heavily regulated industries, such as the pharmaceutical and financial service industries,
compliance requirements add work in the form of additional testing, documentation, and reviews. In
these cases, an organization will need to evaluate closely if Agile software tools or an Enterprise Project
Portfolio Management system would be the best in to handle these compliance and regulatory issues.
Communicate Progress
Scaling Agile requires automation tools. In a Forrester interview one vice president of a large financial
company described the need for automation, he said: “When you have one project on a whiteboard
with Post-its, it is fine, but when you have five or six projects, the whiteboard approach just does not
cut it. We haven’t even got enough whiteboards.” Automation is required because sharing status
beyond a daily Sprint meeting is time-consuming. This is particularly true when the team is spread
across many locations or shared across several projects. The ability to quickly and easily share status
information is crucial when the team self-selects work and changes direction based on that work’s
results.
Combining Agile and Enterprise Project Portfolio Management
Enterprise Project Portfolio Management provides visibility to the enterprise project portfolio while
the Agile software tool enables teams to work with the tools and methodologies that make them the
most productive.
Combining Agile and Enterprise Project Portfolio methods enables management to understand exactly
what their organization has planned to do, how well they are doing against that plan, what they have
spent to date, how much progress they have made, what is running behind schedule, what needs to be
reworked or rethought, and an experience-based forecast of what it will take to finish each project and
the ripple effects of being late. Executives can get an accurate picture of each project’s progress to
make informed decisions.
What are the benefits of Rally Software’s integration with Oracle’s Primavera P6?
Oracle and Rally Software link Agile software development projects from Rally with enterprise projects
in Oracle’s Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management. Together, these solutions allow