Monitor Progress and Alignment with Value

In addition to creating the agile development plan and setting up the individual sprints, Accept manages the timebox-in-progress, helping assure that each iteration accomplishes maximum business value.

Using Accept, product managers can now monitor development progress within and across iterations, while developers can view the source and market need of the features they’re building, for sharper insight. As the sprint proceeds, time and resource constraints can dictate the need for reduced project scope, or external factors such as competitive conditions can cause a realignment of priorities.

Reduce Uncertainty and Risk

• Scrum Dashboards with real-time visibility, to recognize and control issues early in the process – driving down risk and preventing “solution drift”
• Views of the entire release backlog, including status, strategic score, rankings, and complete background information
• Views of each sprint backlog with status, score, ranking and complete background information
• The Sprint Scope panel, which provides the ideal agenda for the daily stand-up (BELOW)
• A library of management reports to manage key metrics such as burndown and velocity
• Automatic roll-ups of the status of work items to their parent requirements
• Full tracing of requirements upstream into business justification and downstream into design and development artifacts, with full documentation
• Capture of sprint reviews, with the ability to gauge the success of each sprint back to its business value
• Implied market satisfaction reports, to provide a quantitative assessment of the ultimate business value delivered via each iteration.

In addition, Accept provides a platform for unifying multiple teams across the enterprise.