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What tools do you use for tracking project progress to management?
Hey all!
I am looking for a tool (preferably a plugin for Jira but definitely not tied to that) that would give us the following visibility into various projects across our organization:
- Track the percentage of completion of an initiative
- Track the percentage of a sprint is spent on different task types (story vs spike vs incident vs bug)
- Sprints executed vs sprints remaining (estimate)
Traditional PM tools won’t work because we are constantly adding new stories and breaking down existing stories, and we only estimate stories a couple sprints out.
This is a difficult problem, as management wants something to go off of for resource planning on future projects, but we as a team want remain as agile as possible.
I know we aren’t the first company to go through this. I also know that our management is reasonably accepting of the agile vs long term planning problem, but there must be a tool out there that gives us reasonable estimates?
What do your agile organizations use for tracking initiative progress when there are constant changes to the backlog?
Thanks!
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Interesting problem. We at Agile For All are pretty much tool agnostic and don’t keep up with them because there are so many, but some of this seems like stuff Jira should do out of the box. I’m guessing the second one you list would require a custom field so you know what work type it is, but then you should be able to generate information from that.
Worst case you could just take an hour per sprint and transcribe everything into an Excel spreadsheet and manipulate it however you want. It can’t be that much data on a per sprint basis but maybe I’m wrong.
