Nooga Scale
Agile planning at scale made easy
Nooga Scale adds digital tools to help estimate, plan and visualize work across multiple teams and projects in your organization. For organizations using the Scaled Agile Framework, SAFe, our tool extends platforms like Azure DevOps and Jira so that you can follow your practices right where you work.
Challenge
Can’t get Azure DevOps to work properly with SAFe?
SAFe Integration
Enterprises struggle to make use of the Azure DevOps functionality in a way that would fit with SAFe and also be convenient to use.
Unified Planning
Organizations need to see plans across teams in a visual way, prioritize the work using a standardized flow, and manage key objectives as well as monitor risk metrics.
Resistance to Adoption of Yet Another Tool
All tools you’ve tried are external to Azure DevOps, and are challenging to adopt due to data requirements, etc.
Solution
Nooga Scale brings SAFe
to Azure DevOps
Nooga Scale is a tool that extends Azure DevOps with process enhancements to make it easier to get started and keep going with agile practices.
Nooga Scale brings tooling for additional planning concepts and artifacts introduced by practices such as SAFe, such as release trains, program increments, and objectives.
And - all you do in Nooga Scale stays in Azure DevOps, so you don't have to worry about integration, security, or data protection in a separate service.
Nooga Scale on Azure DevOps
Features
Visual collaboration
Working together at scale requires increased visibility into what others are doing. Nooga Scale adds an interactive program board where the teams can commit to items from the prioritized backlog. The program board gives a clear status overview of the work done by the teams.
Risk management
Risk management is an important part of the planning work. During PI planning the teams states risks and impediments to the RTE. Nooga Scale provides a board where the team efficiently manages risks, both during planning and later to track the risks during increment implementation.
Objectives management
Goal setting is key to keep focus on the most important things. In Nooga Scale you can set goals at PI level or per team by using Objectives. Set the planned business value when planning the increment and follow up actual value during the execution.
Roadmap visualization
The program board can be used as a roadmap to provide a clear and concise overview of the key goals, milestones, and deliverables associated with a particular project, so that everyone involved can understand the big picture and stay aligned with the project's objectives.
Dependency visualization
Managing dependencies can be hard. Nooga Scale makes it easier by visualizing dependencies on the program board as red strings. New dependencies can be created by simply dropping cards on each other.
Flow metrics
Unlock critical insights into your development process with Flow Metrics, as recommended by SAFe 6.0. Explore valuable data on team dynamics, scaled Agile Release Trains (ARTs), Solution trains, and more to streamline workflows and enhance efficiency across your projects.
Testimonials
Proven Success
Enterprise engineering and product teams love Nooga.
ALL the missing links! Now ADO works as intended - from Product management all the way to the floor and back.
This is an amazing add-on, delivers beyond expectation - as an on-prem solution!
Lovely interface - SAFe compatible without getting religious and easy to explain and learn.
Denise Vestin
Sr. Agile Coach, instructor SAFe
CGI
Such a great extension this is! Finally we can use Azure DevOps to the fullest in our SAFe oriented way of working. Not only is the extension great but also the people behind. Excellent support and a really forward team that continuously are developing this extension. Great work Nooga team!
Jenny Hjalmarsson
IT Product and Service Manager
Systembolaget AB
Nooga Scale is The tool that completes Azure DevOps. It is a fantastic tool to do PI planning, only one tool for all PI planning activities with Risk, Objective, board view.
Bjarne Salewski
Freelance Senior Agile Coach, Scrum Master and Azure DevOps Admin
BS Agile Consult
We've been using Nooga Scale now for the past year. It's made planning across our multiple teams really easy and the follow up on items even easier. The real rockstars though is the support team. Every time I've had a question or reported a bug, they've responded and fixed it quickly. It's made using this tool extremely reliable.
Brian Kinnaman
Program Manager
Outokumpu
I received some resistance to acquiring this extension from a few in my senior leadership, but ultimately won out. Two program increments later I was told by one of them, "not only is this powerful, it is what we needed. I was wrong."
Gratitude.
Chris Van Doren
The installation and configuration of this extension was smooth and without impact to our existing configuration. The extension widely make use of the existing structures of Azure DevOps, such as Predesessors, Iteration path and Area path. In addition it introduces new work item types for the repressentation of entities like PI, ART etc. so no data is stored outside of Azure Devops.
Christoffer Bolding Christensen
Manager
Energinet
Once we installed this extension our old structures were no longer required! Now we have a highly flexible Azure DevOps project configuration that supports ALL our teams, not just those which are aligned to a SAFe ART. This extension truly reduces the complexity involved with defining, and managing, your Agile Release Trains in Azure DevOps. Deploying the extension and configuring it on an existing project was quick, easy, and had zero impact on our existing configuration!
Scott Clark
Senior Cloud Security Engineer
F5 Networks
Nooga Scale
Pricing
Pay Monthly
Pay Yearly
Team
€
200
/month
- Up to 10 users
- 1 Organization
- Payment by Credit card or Azure Subscription
- Monthly or annual cycles
- Self-serve documentation
- Azure DevOps Cloud
Business
€
700
/month
- Up to 100 users
- 1 Organization
- Payment by Credit card or Azure Subscription
- Monthly or annual cycles
- Self-serve documentation
- Azure DevOps Cloud
Enterprise
€
900
/month
Starting at
- From 100 users
- Unlimited organization
- Priority Support (SLA)
- Dedicated Customer Success Manager
- Payment by invoice
- 2 hours remote training
- Azure DevOps Cloud and Server
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Go to the Azure DevOps Marketplace, select your organization, click the shopping bag (“Browse Marketplace”), and search for “Nooga Scale.” or follow steps and get started here.
Is there a trial version available?
Yes, there is a 14-day free trial with full functionality. You can access it via the Marketplace, get started here or by schedule a call with the Nooga team.
In Nooga Scale, permissions are determined by a combination of application roles and the user’s Azure DevOps license and permission levels. As a result, users may experience restricted functionality in Scale if they hold the appropriate role but lack necessary underlying access rights. For example, a stakeholder typically cannot create areas or iterations, even with the correct Nooga Scale role assigned. Read more > https://knowledge.nooga.net/knowledge-base/understanding-and-managing-permissions
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.
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