Agile Portfolio Management
Effectively “size” and confidently “sequence” in hybrid or agile environments. Tempus Resource is a SAFe Certified Platform Partner and offers Standard Interfaces to Jira, ADO, and many more applications to enable effective portfolio and capacity management.
„Roadmaps that show what you can do instead of what you want to do.“ (Lloyd Norman)
Sizing, Sequencing & Prioritizing
Tempus closes the gap between portfolio and capacity management by simultaneously sequencing features and epics using What-If simulations.
OKR’s & Strategy alignment
The strategy is followed by the roadmap and PI-Planning. Link projects and epics and to OKR’s and strategy in the Portfolio Kanban Board and Roadmap module.
SAFe & Portfolio Flow / Sync
SAFe is recommending to size epics 9-12 months beyond the current PI to ensure Portfolio Flow. Tempus is made for RTE’s and LPM’s. Teams are using Jira.
Key-Functions
Key-Funktionen im Überblick
Tempus for Jira, ADO, etc.
With Tempus for Jira (Jira plug-in!), you can easily sync your epics, features, tasks, and issues with Tempus and get started right away with what-if analysis, portfolio kanban boards, roadmaps, prioritization, BI & analytics, and more.
Value stream coordination
Tempus allows sizing (effort planning) in the same epic by team, role, named resource and in all conceivable units like hours, story points, person days, or FTEs. This flexibility in Tempus is unique and a particularly valuable feature for agile portfolios.
Simulation for Epic-Ranking & Flow
Review the Lean business case and identify the optimal epic sequence using What-If Simulations and Scenario Analysis, while taking into consideration OKRs and strategic alignment (during Portfolio syncs and Strategic Business reviews).
Financial management in an Agile Portfolio
Link labor costs OKRs/KPIs, and strategic themes at the portfolio level. By letting project managers and RTEs plan costs centrally, you can always maintain an overview of budgets by product, project, epic, etc.
The Tempus „Team Resource“
The Team Resource is particularly designed for agile/hybrid eco systems. It enables your organization to assign employees with varying capacities to one or more teams, giving you visibility into utilization at a team, role, or individual employee level. Actually at any level!
SAFe Platform Partner
According to SAFe, longer-term capacity planning at the portfolio level is not only recommended, but urgently needed to ensure that team planning (Scrum) can be implemented in tools like Jira/ADO. Learn more about these topics on the official SAFe website – SAFe Portfolio Roadmaps and Epic-Sizing.