Clarizen for Agile & SCRUM

Why do anything?

• Manually updated• Sloppy• Updated once a day• Limited accessibility & visibility

• Automatically updated with progress• Organized• Real-time updates & Collaboration • Access, collaborate and view anytime

& anywhere

This is how it used to be… This is how it should be…

Why now?

Powerful and CustomizableLeverages Clarizen’s full set of project management capabilities to fit Agile processes and best practices

Speed Up Planning SessionsTranslate user stories to technical tasks and update cards directly during planning sessions while gaining real time insights into impact on costs, resource load and ETA

Organize Your WorkUse the Team Board to track progress with your work across all projects and easily advance a task from one stage to another by dragging and dropping across stages

Visualize Your WorkflowMap columns of the Team Board to your workflows and Work Breakdown Structure. Progress is then visualized by creating a card for each task with important info such as the assigned resource, remaining effort, status and priority

Why Clarizen?

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Team Board

Email & Chat

Issue Tracking Documents

CapacityPlanning

RBL

Clarizen Team Board • Assign the relevant resource(s) to each task

Clarizen Team Board • To open the Team Board, right click on the relevant work item and select “Team Board” from

the menu

Clarizen Team Board • User Stories are shown to the left (indicated with red arrow), while task “post-its” are shown

in their appropriate state (indicated with blue arrow)• You can also see the Epic name displayed above the User Story

Clarizen Team Board • Each tasks Resource is displayed on the individual “post-its”, along with the resource image• All resources assigned to the User Story are displayed within the User Story itself

Clarizen Team Board • The importance of each task can be seen on the individual “post-its” as well as on the User

Story level

Clarizen Team Board • Hovering over the “Status Icon” on the User Story will display the “Team Board Status Data”

Clarizen Team Board • Clicking on a Task, will display any data entered into the “Team Board Status Data” field

• In this example, the entered data was Dev:2; QA:2 – which results in the below display• Note that the footer also contains a URL that links directly to the selected work item

Clarizen Team Board • To update a task’s state simply drag and drop it into the appropriate position

Clarizen Team Board • You can see the remaining effort and work for each individual task on the “post-it” as well as

the overall effort and work on the User Story

Clarizen Team Board • To collapse or expand a specific state, or user story, simply click on the relevant icon (as

shown below)

Clarizen Team Board • To filter through User Stories and Epics click on the “filter” dropdown and select the relevant

objects