Fix Agile Pain Points Visually

Clear Path creates a clean visual of all work, clearly identifying the bottleneck Work Items. Teams can prioritize clearing Bottlenecks before they become a problem to a project.

The main cause of a release falling behind schedule is the schedule is unrealistic from the start. Clear Path’s Sprint Planning mode helps teams create realistic projections from the start, allowing them to cut scope or get working sooner.

Projecting release dates for planned scope is a difficult task for even experienced professionals. For stakeholders to feel confident is timelines, they need to understand how the timeline was developed. Clear Path’s Visual Backlog mode presents an easy to understand visual of the project scope with tools to identify your risks to delivery. Clear Path’s Sprint Planning mode presents visual of the Agile plan for execution, with tools to easily communicate how the plans mitigates risks and how the plan prioritized the wor

Agile is about projections, not detailed plans. Agile embraces the fuzzy math of story points over the granularity of estimates in hours and days. Stop using a Gantt chart, and start using a tool that was built for Agile processes.

The Work Items in a backlog are like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, where the only person who knows how they fit together is the Product Owner. Help teams visualize how the pieces fit together and help them comprehend the organizational goals faster.

Work Items that are a high priority are often blocked by other Work Items that enable your key initiatives. Other Work Items may not seem important, but they are actually the ones driving your schedule. Clear Path’s Sprint Planning mode will automatically prioritize work items to keep you on schedule, and it will “automagically” plan out as many sprints as desired to give you a realistic expectation of the development length required.

Creating, editing, and reversing relationships in Jira often require a minimum of 10 button clicks. In Clear Path visual canvas, these actions are generally just 2 or 3 clicks.

In Agile, Work Items are written to provide incremental value to the end user of the product. Often, developers pick up Work Items they cannot finish because it is not clear in Jira they are partially blocked. Other times, the Product Owner incorrectly couples Work Items together so they cannot be worked independently. Clear Path helps teams ensure the implementation order of the Work Items is clear and correct before starting work.