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Planview Viz

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What is Planview Viz?

Tasktop Viz is a value stream analytics software from Tasktop.

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Screenshot of Portfolio Insights consolidates the highlights from a product line, portfolio, group, or department.
Screenshot of The Flow Metrics dashboard visualizes and measures product value streams. Out-of-the-box metrics and analytics reveal problem areas, illuminate dependencies, and guide investment to improve speed, velocity, and quality.
Screenshot of The Flow Modeler is a visual layout of the end-to-end workflow of an entire value stream, from customer request to customer delivery. Flow Modeler builds the value stream map directly from the data in the user's tools and shows in real-time where bottlenecks are emerging.
Screenshot of An easy-to-read Neglected Work Work in Progress (WIP) graph alerts you when value streams have taken on more work than they can deliver.
Screenshot of Business-aligned visibility into value delivery aligns teams to measurable outcomes. Flow Metrics alone do not help an organization accelerate value delivery - they must be evaluated against business results. Business and technology teams can work toward a single set of goals and align around a joint set of outcomes.

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Screenshot of Portfolio Insights consolidates the highlights from a product line, portfolio, group, or department.

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Improve business agility with Planview Viz

Incentivized
Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Planview Viz is helping [...] shift from a project to product mentality by shifting from projects into product value streams, as well as embedment of the flow methodology across the Enterprise. We want a standardised and consistent way to measuring teams around velocity and performance, and Planview Viz is the chosen strategic tool for gathering flow metrics and insights which will help teams move faster through identification of bottlenecks and areas of improvement.

Pros

  • Value stream management and mapping of work into standardised categories
  • Flow metrics on a page
  • Visualisation and insights

Cons

  • Better UX and UI
  • Better reporting capabilities which are self-service and automated
  • Improved administrative capabilities as a Planview Viz user

Return on Investment

  • Improved productivity
  • Increased velocity of work
  • Reorganisation and balancing of work between new features and reduce tech debt

Newbie but like what I'm seeing so far!

Incentivized
Howard Berkman
Senior Scrum Master at CVS Health, Inc. (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Work flow tool to build on an enhance the data gleaned from Rally.
As a Scrum Master, I seek to maximize the flow per iteration and PI, minimize carryover, maximize throughput and minimize team burnout.

Pros

  • Visualize via charts and graphs
  • Ignore story points
  • Allow a great detail of customization

Cons

  • As I am still learning the tool, it seems overly complex and non intuitive to me
  • Doesn't allow inclusion of colors (i.e. for story types) to be brought over from Rally
  • Error messages appear to be obscure at times

Return on Investment

  • Expect it to increase speed
  • Expect it to increase productivity
  • Expect it to improve predictability
  • Expect it to improve visibility
  • Expect it to improve ROI

Alternatives Considered

Rally Software, Miro and Jira Software

I'm a fan!

Incentivized
Verified User
Consultant in Marketing (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The company had challenges in delivering new features quickly - or at all. Product Managers could not gain visibility to what work was in progress and what potential bottlenecks were causing delays or fallout. Tasktop Viz allowed us to address the problem of making work visible and identifying the work states that were causing the bottlenecks in the flow.

Pros

  • Makes work visible
  • Clearly identify active and wait states in the flow
  • Visualizes trends of value delivery

Cons

  • configuration is done at a very granular level - it's not easy to apply across items

Return on Investment

  • Reduced WIP
  • Increase of feature delivery
  • Reduced waste in process

You cannot improve what you cannot measure

Incentivized
Verified User
Program Manager in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I have been working with Viz since the beginning. I love how the breakout of work can give you indications on what is happening within a team. The ability to dive into the work and help the teams come up with improvements and then be able to measure them is essential to the company deliverying value to our customers. I am ready for all the improvements that are coming!

Pros

  • View Flow Metrics in a simple way
  • Manage WIP
  • View into the bottlenecks

Cons

  • Based on source tool hierarchy, need view into the parent/child relationship
  • Export of data into the companys format for reporting up

Return on Investment

  • Decreased our time delivery
  • Increased our quantity of features delivered