Easy Agile vs Kendis Comparison Overview
Easy Agile Programs is a basic tool for PI Planning. However, as you progress in your agile scaling journey, a more robust tool is essential. Such a tool should support your organization in evolving into a fully connected enterprise with a unified source of truth.
PI or Big room planning is generally two days of planning for all those on the program level and team members every quarter or specified period. People are both planning their own work, as well as planning and coordinating work required by other teams. Being able to prioritize their most valuable features, plan user stories and collaborate on dependencies are key challenges people face in every Planning session. Kendis is the solution for your PI Planning needs.
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Program Board
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Team planning area
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PI Planning Agenda Management with Timezones
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Plan a feature in multiple teams
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View unplanned stories by each feature
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Feature planning: View labels for teams and sprints involved
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Auto calculation of “Feature Delivery” sprint/team based on the planned stories
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True “Feature Size” based on the “Story Points” roll up
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Sprint by Sprint view for features and relevant stories
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Team Capacity per Sprint
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Planning Analytics (Team and Sprints)
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Team and Sprint Capacities calculated by users
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Planning Scrum of Scrums
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Program Roles Management
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Planning Snapshot (Freeze State)
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Scheduled “Join Room” option for PI and team breakouts (MS Teams/Zoom/Any other)
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White boarding
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Integration with MS teams
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Confidence Voting For PI, all teams and with option to allow anyone to participate
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Overview of PI Planning with Kendis
- Team members from all over the world can join and have real-time interactions.
- Changes made by any user will be visible instantly to all.
- Use drag n drop to move stories from backlog to the relevant team sprints.
- Ability to plan feature with stories in multiple teams.
- Beam the Kendis program board on the wall and view in real-time how your teams are planning their features and stories.
- Save tens of hours by viewing unplanned stories linked to features providing a true planning picture.
Kendis Program Board
Dependencies exists between features and teams, being able to capture, visualize and track can help programs to avoid critical delays in their feature deliveries. Kendis provides comprehensive capabilities to manage complete lifecycle for dependencies.
Features List
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Feature and Stories (Any combination)
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Cross team dependencies
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Visualize Jira/AzureDevOps links as dependency lines
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Dependencies to external Teams/Vendors that are not in Jira
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Conversation, due dates and detailed description for dependencies
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Notifications of changes or overdue dependencies
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Advanced Filters: Find dependencies that have missed their due dates or have changed their plans
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View dependencies in the list view with the ability to sort and filter
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Dependency Wheel to show the dependencies between teams
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Overview of Dependencies Management with Kendis
- Dependencies created in Kendis will automatically reflect in Jira/AzureDevOps and vice versa.
- Visualize your Jira/AzureDevOps links as dependencies on the Kendis board.
- Create dependencies between any card types, can be feature-feature, feature-story, and story-story.
- Set the target due dates and get notified if not done by the set date.
- Dependency wheel to understand how the teams are dependent on each other.
- Smart warnings for the users to notify them if dependencies are in the wrong order, in the same sprint, or have a too big of a gap.
- Set the automation rules to close the dependencies automatically when the items are marked as Done.
- Tag team members and have collaborative discussions on the dependencies to make sure they are never forgotten once the planning is done.
Dependencies View in Kendis
Program Increment (PI) Objectives are a summary of the business and technical goals that an Agile Team or train intends to achieve in the upcoming Program Increment (PI). Kendis provides excellent capabilities to link features to objectives and show incremental achievement based on the completed work.
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PI objectives
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Team level objectives
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Custom Objectives for Milestones, releases, etc.
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Set Business Value
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Link Objectives to the features and stories
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Incremental progress tracking of Objectives based on the linked items
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Objectives progress Dashboard
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overview
Overview of Objectives in Kendis
- Define objectives for your “Program Increment” or for your milestones.
- Set PI objectives for each team.
- Create OKRs and track them.
- Allow the business to set the “BV Plan” (Business Value) in a collaborative way.
- Once objectives are achieved, update them with the “BV Actual” value.
- Link each objective to the features and stories.
- Reorder to set the right priority.
- View the incremental progress as the items are completed during the PI.
- Multi-dimensional progress tracking to show the completion by:
- Feature Status
- Story Status
- Story Points
- Team stories and the respective story points.
Objectives Dashboard in Kendis
Objectives view in Kendis
During PI Planning event, risks are captured, analyzed and potential mitigation actions are discussed. With Kendis ROAMing risks is simple and efficient.
Features List
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Program Risks
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Teams impacted by risks
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Set Target Resolution Date
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Mitigation Actions Support
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Conversation between users on risks
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Follow and add watchers for notifications
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Filters, sorting, and search
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Risks analytics
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Reminders for due dates
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Link risks to features and stories
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Overview of Risks Management in Kendis
- Create risks with the summary, description, and mitigation actions where required.
- Link risks to the features and stories.
- ROAM based risk management.
- Auto calculate “Risk Level” based on the Probability and Impact.
- Set the impacted teams and sprints.
- Have a conversation, engage other team members and risk owner.
- Schedule email notification for the reminders and overdue risks.
- Risks dashboard to visualize the risks in your programs.
- Link risk register to more than one program board.
- Easily find risks that you want to track using filters, sorting, and quick search options.
the risks listing view in Kendis
A risk in kendis
Significant efforts and time is spent on the PI/Big room planning for the quarter. RTEs, Business Owners, Program Managers and others at release train level need tools to track the progress of teams and features in the simplest way. Most of the tools for PI Planning significantly lacks these capabilities. Kendis prides itself with the powerful tracking it offers to the customers.
Features List
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Features Progress
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Team by Team Stories Progress
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Scope Change Tracker
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Board states with complete snapshot for draft, planning & tracking stages
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Comparison to the planning baseline for dependencies, objectives, and sprint changes
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Week by Week Comparison of the program progress
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Inspect & Adapt Reports
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Program Predictability Matrix (SAFe®)
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Program Performance Measurements (SAFe®)
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PI Burndown Chart
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Overview of Analytics and Tracking in Kendis
- Team by Team, features and stories progress reports.
- Program Increment burndown chart including IP sprint support.
- Comparison report to view at any time what has changed after the planning. Ability to filter by criteria like:
- Show all the features added after planning
- Show all the stories that changed their estimations
- Show all the stories that have changed their delivery sprints
- Show all the features where delivery plans are changed.
- Get week by week progress reports.
- Scope change tracker to understand in depth what has changed during execution and what scope added so can understand better the impacts on the delivery plans.
Weekly progress updates report in Kendis
Weekly scope changes report in Kendis
STEs (Solution Train Engineers) struggle to find proper tools to track the cross release train dependencies and be able to have a holistic view of the planned work. Kendis Solution Board is built to help large organizations with 10’s of release train to be able to conduct pre and post planning solution sync, cross release train dependencies and combined analytics for tracking.
Features List
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View multiple program boards
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Ability to have program boards using different agile tools (Jira, AzureDevOps)
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View features roll up view by Capabilities/Portfolio Epic
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Dependencies between program boards
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Collective view of features delivery plans across program boards
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Support for Large Solution level in SAFe®
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Support for Shared Services
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Combined objectives progress for program boards
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Combined analytics and progress for program boards
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Overview of Solution Board in Kendis
- Bring together multiple release trains into a single view as “Solution Board.”
- Flexible support to bring together program boards using different agile tools, e.g., one board integrated with Jira and other with AzureDevOps.
- Post planning meeting to review the plans for release trains including shared services involved with the solution level.
- Each program board can have their own start and end dates of the sprints.
- Create dependencies between release trains/program boards.
- View, sort and filter the dependencies of all types (capabilities-features, etc.).
- A combined view to easily track the progress of objectives defined in each release train.
- Solution level analytics to track collective progress of release trains.
Kendis Solution Board
Objectives Dashboard in Kendis
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