Agile planning at scale made easy

With the Nooga Scale extension, your Azure DevOps project will be enriched to include the terms, concepts and tools from SAFe. Scale extends Azure DevOps to support program increment planning with a program board to commit and plan features and dependencies, use the risk board to identify and ROAM risks and use the objectives tool to define measurable objectives.

Risk management is an important part of the planning work. During PI planning the teams states risks and impediments to the RTE, and Scale provides a board where the team efficiently manages risks, both during planning and later to track the risks during the increment.

Project-level risks are visualized in a ROAM board where the teams can manage risks found during planning. Backed by work items in Azure DevOps the risks can be assigned to owners and the documentation and change history is consistently handled.

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• Visualize and manage risks. During the PI planning risks are easily shared by using the risk board. Later during the ROAM exercise the teams and business owners find ways to manage the risks before committing to the plan for the next increment.
• Customize columns. Create a board that suits your team. Use the ROAM acronym, custom states or risk levels - the risk board can be customized to your way of working.
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Goal setting is key to keep focus on the most important things. In Nooga Scale, you can set goals at ART level or per team by using Objectives. Set the planned business value (BV) when planning the increment and follow up during the execution. You can also associate objectives with items on the program board to give additional insights into the development progress.

Use Scale for -

• Documenting PI and Team PI Objectives. An important part of measuring performance and delivery precision is to set objectives for the PIs and then measure the outcome.
• Measure achievement and delivery. Use business value to measure outcome and monitor progress using Feature completion by linking objectives to features.

Working together at scale requires increased visibility into what others are doing. Nooga Scale adds an interactive program board to make documenting and sharing that information easier. The program board helps teams understand constraints and identify critical paths with a clear visualization of dependences.

• Quickly document planning. The program board lets you easily add features directly to the board or map them from an existing backlog.
• Share increment overview. With a digital program board anyone can look at the result from the increment planning.
• Visualize dependencies. The program board shows dependencies between features and it's really easy to add new by dropping cards on each other to make a connection.

With Scale, you can also visualize the time spent on work items instead of being tied to iterations. Scale can easily be toggled to enable start & target date on work items to see when a feature starts and when it's planned to end.

• Share your roadmap. Visualize an increment or even a longer period of work.
• Drag and drop. Use our user interface to drag and drop to set the start & target date for work items.
• Visualize time. Visualize how long something will take instead of just showing the expected delivery iteration.