One of the tools that our project management office introduced me to using for Agile was Version One. At first, I thought it was a lot of extra work to fill out the stories, tasks, hours, etc. Where the payoff happened was when there were more tasks than resources and it was easy to demonstrate the discrepancy. One of the big mantras for Agile is “It makes the work visible” and this is a tool that makes that happen! Being able to use data to prioritize work or showcase the need for resources makes it easier to have those planning conversations.
Example of a Version One task list
Example of a Version One report showing expected versus actual
