Welcome to SpeedBird9

Capgemini’s free online

agile project monitoring dashboard

SpeedBird9

Create your own projects. Define your own

work process. Follow your work items and

monitor your progress. It’s easy. Online and

free.

Please take a look for yourself at www.speedbird9.com

Goals

SpeedBird9 is Capgemini’s free online project monitoring dashboard.

SpeedBird9 targets at collaboration and visibility in organizations, projects

and teams. Especially for projects that have distributed teams.

SpeedBird9 is work item centric. It allows you to easily track the status of

the work items in your projects.

SpeedBird9 is process agnostic. We do not favor Scrum, nor Smart, nor

Kanban, nor traditional approaches. You may use SpeedBird9 to define

the process and the statuses you prefer.

Create your projects, set up your statuses, your estimation scale, invite

people to your team, and monitor the progress of the work items in your

projects.

SpeedBird9 is easy to use, and easy to customize.

SpeedBird9 is a free service Capgemini initiative that runs on Windows

Azure Websites. Its further development is executed by the ADP Core

Team.

SpeedBird9The basics. Defining accounts, projects,

teams and workitems. Doing estimation.

Please take a look for yourself at www.speedbird9.com

Accounts

You can register for an account at SpeedBird9 at

any time, based on your email address.

It is always free, but as we support organizations

and projects, we do not allow you to create

accounts using your general email accounts, such

as outlook.com and gmail.com.

After you have created (and confirmed) your

account you can create projects, and join teams

for other projects, even from outside your own

organization.

We do not to use your data for commercial

purposes.

Projects

With SpeedBird9 is it very easy to set up a new

project.

When you do, SpeedBird9 will automatically

set up an assignment for you in your project.

To give you a quick start, we pre-define

projects statuses, estimation scale, work item

types. Customize these to your needs. You can

also add a priority scale and work item labels.

Next, invite your co-workers to your project

and add your first work items.

Teams

SpeedBird9 is team oriented. Every project is executed

by a project team.

Once you have created a project, it is easy to invite

other people to the team, from your own organization,

but also from other organizations you collaborate with.

As soon as people login to their account, they will see

your invite on their account overview.

Everybody on the team basically can use the same

features of SpeedBird9. As said, we aim at

collaboration.

Please remember that we do not support creating

accounts from more general email providers, such as

outlook.com and gmail.com. Thus, when inviting

people to your team, do not use these more general

addresses.

Work items

It is very easy to create new work items in your

project.

You can immediately set the priority, work item

type, status of your new work item, add labels and

assign your work item to any member of the team.

You can add notes and change the status of work

items at any time, or move them on the project

dashboard. Changing the status of course

immediately effects the burn up of your project.

SpeedBird9 keeps the full history of your work

items for you to look back.

Estimation

Point-based estimation is key to successfully

measuring your projects progress.

By default, when you create a new project, the

smart use case scale is added, but of course

SpeedBird9 allows you to define your own

points scale, which is used for estimating the

size and complexity of individual work items.

The complexity is also used in calculating the

burn up for your projects, and is displayed in a

number of other useful graphs.

SpeedBird9The advanced. Defining statuses and

priorities. Dashboards, statistics. Imports and

exports. Submitting feedback.

Please take a look for yourself at www.speedbird9.com

Statuses

With every project, you can define your own set of

statuses.

From the moment they’re created, work items will

have a status, usually starting with the default

status.

These statuses are used (in display order) to

populate the project dashboard. Work items show

per status, ordered based on their priority.

Statuses have types, such as Initial, In Progress or

Finished. As soon as a work item reaches a

Finished state, it’s points will add to your project’s

burn-up.

Priorities

With every project, you can define your own

set of priorities. For a quick start you can

use the MoSCoW rule set with one simple

click.

Priorities are used (using their weights) to

sort the order in which work items are

represented on the project dashboard.

On defining priorities you can set a code

and colors to easily spot priorities on the

dashboard.

Dashboards

SpeedBird9 hosts a status oriented dashboard that

is ideal to assist in daily stand-up meetings.

A single overview of all your work items, grouped

by their statuses and ordered by their priorities.

Work items types are displayed using their color

codes.

Drag and drop supplies easy moving of work

items to new statuses.

Extensive filtering allows for viewing user defined

subsets of work items.

We are working on adding new dashboards to

SpeedBird9 to target estimation and prioritization.

Import and export

SpeedBird9 allows you to import and export

your projects work items from and to other

sources.

We support importing use cases from a

UML model export (in XMI).

And we support importing and exporting

work items to CSV.

All imports match the items to import to

existing items, and update them where

necessary.

Burn up

SpeedBird9’s burn up chart is the perfect

tool for monitoring your projects’ progress.

Our burn up shows you the number of

points in scope of the project, compared to

the number of finished points.

Moreover, the burn up also extrapolates

your progress to predict your likely iteration,

release or project end date.

Every time a work item changes status, the

burn up is automatically recalibrated.

Stats

SpeedBird9 offers a number of very useful

graphs and statistics about your project.

Express the status of your project in a pie chart,

with points per status or items per status.

View you team’s velocity, per day, per week,

per two weeks or per month.

Show the overview of your project’s estimates.

We are adding new graphs and stats based on

your feedback. Please let us know what charts

you would like to see on SpeedBird9.

Using your feedback

As you might expect, the SpeedBird9 Core

Team uses the tool to monitor further

development and innovation.

We depend on your feedback to drive our

development. To facilitate easy feedback we

added a submit feedback form to

SpeedBird9.

Please help us further improve and send us

your feedback.

SpeedBird9

Create your own projects. Define your own

work process. Follow your work items and

monitor your progress. It’s easy. Online and

free.

Please take a look for yourself at www.speedbird9.com