Overview
Rally ServicesProduct Implementation
Expert Coaching for Creating the Agile Organization
Maybe you have started an Agile pilot in your organization, or perhaps you want to expand Agile to multiple, geographically dispersed teams. Suppose it’s time to rev up your engineering practices to increase product quality. Whatever the case, real-time visibility into your teams, projects, programs and process is imperative to your company’s success.
From small pilot projects to distributed, multi-team programs, Rally’s family of award-winning, on-demand software life cycle management solutions give teams the visibility and collaboration needed to formalize and scale Agile development practices to deliver high-value software in rapid iterations. Let Rally get you up and running quickly with our two-day Rally Product Implementation Workshop.
Approach
At the conclusion of your two-day Rally Product Implementation Workshop, you will have sufficient process and product information to track Agile projects in Rally, as well as understand the current configuration of Rally and how that affects and allows for future agility of the organization. Through a combination of workshops and training, your Rally coach will help you hit the ground running and develop plan to meet your goals down the road.
Workshop Details
Day One
Day one looks at many aspects of your development organization – from the tools you use to the way your projects and programs are structured to the way you organize teams. Together, you and your Rally coach review your current Agile state and where you’d like to be in the future. Finally, you’ll discuss the ideal Rally configuration for you based on information about your team and organization.
Organizational Workshop (2 hours): To adapt, you must first inspect. This workshop discusses your people, products and processes to understand your company’s software development lifecycle.
- Organization breakdown
- Product/project breakdown
- Software development process
- Team composition and collaboration
- Management software - feature tracking, bug and test tracking and time tracking
Agile Assessment and Retrospective (2 hours): The goal of the Agile assessment and retrospective is to inspect your team today and adapt your team for tomorrow.
- Review the team agility assessment – where the team is today
- Discuss plans for the next iteration
- Discuss plans for the next release
- Discuss plans for the future
Rally Overview (1 hour): Discuss the Rally solution from a high level.
- Agile practices
- Product overview
- Data model and nomenclature
- Usage patterns
Rally Configuration Workshop (2 hours): This portion of the workshop is meant to guide your team through configuring Rally.
- Workspaces and projects
- Users, roles and permissions
- Programs
- Releases and iterations
- Customization - values, fields and views
- Data import
- Web service integration
- Reporting
Q&A Session (1 hour): Your Rally coach is available for a one hour Q&A session with the core team.
Day Two
The goal for day two is to implement Rally for your team. By entering real data for a real project, the team has the foundation to leverage for future iterations, releases and projects. The team will also understand the short and long-term implications of the data structure and tracking capabilities within the framework of your goals as an Agile organization.
Rally Implementation Workshop (6 hours): Your Rally coach will help you create an example of your software development lifecycle with Rally. The example is a “spike” through Rally – features, stories, tasks, test cases and defects. The discussion includes topics to help you plan and track your project.
- Requirements management
- Release planning and tracking
- Iteration planning and tracking
- Team communication and signaling
- Test case management for the iteration, release and regression
- Defect management and scheduling
Rally Support for the Organization (1 hour): Your Rally coach provides the necessary information for the team to search and find answers about Rally and discusses training, coaching and other resources.
- Support – questions, defects, enhancements
- Training – learn more about part of Rally
- Coaching – other services available
- Other – samples and betas
Next Steps / Q&A Session (1 hour): You and your Rally coach discuss the next step of the plan and answer any questions from your core team.
Prerequisites:
- Subscription to Rally
- Introduction to Agile (by Rally, a partner, or self-taught)
- Completed Team Agility Assessment
Price
$2,500 per day, plus travel and expenses.
Availability:
The Rally Product Implementation Workshop is available as a two-day engagement. Portions are delivered on-site, via phone and Web conference. Contact your Rally account representative at sales@rallydev.com to schedule.
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