Easy Agile Programs - PI Planning Program Board Dependencies

My org ran our first PI Planning event ever, with a new set of teams who have not worked in Jira prior and were not used to planning at all. Everyone spoke very highly of the Programs tool and noted the planning would not have been possible without the tool. It was easy to set up and use mid-session. Drawing dependencies allowed the teams to visualize how the work should be scheduled and removed tension and pressure from engineering teams to meet unrealistic expectations. We are now able to point back to the PI as new work is being introduced to understand what opportunities exist to pivot our plans and accommodate the new work. Really a great tool all around!

• 

  Easy Agile

  Thank you Mariya for this wonderful review. We are so glad that you are enjoying using Easy Agile Programs for PI Planning.

  Sean

I've been using Programs with clients for a while. Bringing together the Epic Roadmap and aligned sprint view is extremely valuable for multiple or even a single team. The ease of showing dependencies and their health is loved by all of my clients. I can't tell you how many hours this application saved the coaches and scrum masters trying to print then re-digest paper wall version back into the computer. When we were in person, we projected the views on the wall - huge time saver with instant highlights of backwards dependencies and work not aligned with the roadmap using the handy epic clicks. Now that my client teams are fully remote - I can't imagine another way to facilitate PI planning. Recently, the team enabled the roadmap filters to filter the entire plan. This was a request I had made a while back to EA, and they listened! I really did do a dance the day I realized the filters moved to the top of the Increment view. My teams absolutely LOVE it! Now they can filter and align their objectives as well as walk executives through increment plans by Initiative or PI objective. Thanks!

• 

  Easy Agile

  Hi Tricia, Thanks for all your valuable feedback and support over the years. We're glad to hear our filtering enhancements had you doing a happy dance! - Elizabeth, Senior Product Manager

The support of Easy Agile Programs was very helpful und responsive to our questions. Answers were directly towards a solution for our problem and the documentation was change shortly afterwards. All over a great experience. I can total recommend working with Easy Agile.

• 

  Easy Agile

  Hi Alexander, glad we could help and thank you for the positive review! - Angad, Developer

Easy Agile Programs is an awesome app, when my company moved to virtual PI Planning due to COVID we needed a new tool to support us that could be up and running in a matter of weeks. The free trial was extremely helpful and allowed me to try out the tool and see if it was easy enough to setup, administer, and for end users. Setup: As its built into Jira it can automatically pull in all boards and tickets as needed, setup of new Programs takes minutes and all tickets are automatically carried over from Boards or filters into the tool. If you already setup your sprints then tickets will move over in the correct sprints. Administration: There is one permission for the app that when applied globally to all users gives them access. The main admin tasks I have had to perform is creating new Programs which takes minutes, and Changing the Boards that a program is using, again extremely fast and easy! End Users: I was able to put together a simple training deck and run a large session with a live demo and some static slides. This was more than enough to get people through our first PI Planning. Since then we have passed more and more down to the teams, including setting up their own increments rather than it being done by the admin. Core Benefits: Any updates you make to tickets in the tool are made to the ticket in Jira automatically. So changing Story Points, Title, Sprint, all of this is auto done. You can see the product roadmap in the planning tool, no need to jump out. You can clearly see dependency lines between tickets and if they are Red, Yellow or Green. Its also one click to open the ticket fully in Jira if a more in depth review is needed. Overall Easy Agile Programs has been a great addition for our company and has brought many improvements over our traditional pen and paper PI Planning process. This is a tool were going to be keeping even if we move back to in person PI Planning as it brings so much value.

• 

  Easy Agile

  Hi Ben, Thanks so much for your wonderful review. To hear how easy the tool has been to set up and use, and to hear the integration with Jira is helping that is fantastic. Thanks for taking the time to share your experience! Jasmin - Product Marketing Manager, Easy Agile

I have been using JIRA for around 15 years now. I am a newer user to Easy Agile Programs though and I am a big fan. It gives me the ability to look at and report on my projects from a 10,000 feet view and also let me drill down if I want to - making it possible for me to report and control at various different levels of the organization.

• 

  Easy Agile

  Hi Ankur, thank you so much for this review. We're so glad you find the layers to Easy Agile Programs helpful in viewing the work at varying levels. We hope you continue to enjoy using and getting value from the tool. Thanks again Ankur, Jasmin - Product Marketing Manager, Easy Agile