Scaling the Scaling Problem
I just attended an online demo of Danube’s new ScrumWorks Pro 4 and I’m happy to report they’ve gone to great lengths to address those issues facing today’s complex development environments managed using agile techniques. Namely, Danube has built a flexible yet robust system that can accurately model cross-product development. For those of you who have creatively utilized existing agile tools to achieve a similar (though—now that I see what this release can do—far inferior) result will immediately see the value in the release planner view and “epics” potential. In short, these new features allow organizations to monitor progress from a level above the product (usually called “program” or, in ScrumWorks Pro 4, “epics”). Most notably, it allows users to monitor the progress of the multiple constituent components which make up the program, thereby accurately tracking the overall progress of the program. In all, this powerful functionality provides very valuable information that can help shape release date forecasting and prioritization.
I highly encourage you to read more about this release here (http://www.danube.com/scrumworks/pro/release/4.0) or sign up for a trial here (http://www.danube.com/scrumworks/pro/trial).
