Improve your time to benefit & drive success momentum with decisive action Organize your team's work answering How do I ensure that my team is working on the most critical items my project needs done
Few questions in business are harder to answer than:
How do I ensure that my team is working on the most valuable thing today?
and
My team is busy, but is it on something that is a prerequisite of my project or the most critical items the project needs done?
The Strategy-AI Extension for Azure DevOps ensures you have everything you need to answer those questions with confidence, take decisive action to improve your time to benefit and drive your success momentum.
Improve your teams performance tracking and prioritizing your critical work in your Azure DevOps boards.
Functionality
Easily tag work items that are critical, strategic and match your business initiative, tagging across multiple initiatives.
Measure how strategic your backlog is, send work items with low business value and criticality to the bottom, avoid the costs of pre-development analysis and stop non-critical and non-strategic work from entering sprints with comprehensive strategic analysis and reports on your backlog.
Visualize and monitor the historical strategic value of your sprints, easily building trends taking your sprints off track, distracting your resourcing, teams efforts and costing you money.
Measure the strategic value of your epics and analyze the non-critical work items hiding in your epics. Spot hidden scope-creep buried deep within the structure of your epics to ensure non-critical and non-strategic work is easily spotted from a high-level.
Quickly find the criteria causing scope-creep before it reaches your product and development teams.
Quickly visualize how work items cross business initiatives so you can deprioritize work that isn't critical or strategic.
Control which plans are brought into Azure DevOps and which ones are not.
Control team member permissions.
Easily tag work items that are critical, strategic and match your business initiative.
Quickly visualize how epics, features and stories cross business initiatives so you can deprioritize work that isn't critical or strategic.
Stop non-critical and non-strategic work from entering sprints and monitor the historical strategic value of your sprints.
Spot hidden scope-creep buried deep within the structure of your epics to ensure non-critical and non-strategic work is easily spotted from a high-level.
Configuration/Setup
Install the Strategy-AI extension.
From the Azure DevOps "Boards" menu select "Configure/Setup"
You'll be prompted to connect Azure DevOps with Strategy-AI - follow the on screen prompts to sign into your (or sign-up for a new) Strategy-AI account and authorize Strategy-AI to talk to Azure DevOps.
Turn on (or off) the plans you want to bring into Azure DevOps.
Map your Azure DevOps users with Strategy-AI users.
General Usage
Open an epic, feature or user story (issue).
Tag the initiatives the issue is associated with.
View the chart to visualize the issue's alignment with your plan's initiatives.
Use the Backlog Report to view details on the strategic alignment of the issues in your backlog.
Use the Sprint Report to view details on the strategic alignment of the issues in your sprints.
