VersionOne Features - Planning and tracking
1. Product planning
- Backlog Planning: - Consolidate, prioritize and rank stories and defects within projects via simple drag-and-drop and multi-select actions.
- Themes: - Hierarchically organize and track the progress of groups of stories and defects across multiple projects and releases.
- Customer Requests: - Review and prioritize customer and internally submitted feature requests and automatically generate backlog items or defects.
- Ideas Management: - Automate collaboration and prioritization directly with your customers using an idea submission and voting platform.
- Epics: - Simplify planning by defining and breaking larger features down into smaller stories for inclusion in releases and iterations.
- Goals: - Align your efforts with and measure progress against strategic and project-based objectives by associating work with organizational goals.
- Product Road mapping: - Create, collaborate and visually communicate your product strategy using a flexible road mapping capability
2. Release Planning
- Release Planning: - Assign and prioritize functionality to be delivered within a project, sub-project or release with drag-and-drop ease.
- Team Scheduling and Cross-Project Planning: - Organize and assign functionality by team. Teams can either work on a single project or work across multiple projects and automatically rollup progress and status.
- Release Forecasting: - Predict delivery dates and perform “what if” analysis on project and release dates by adjusting remaining scope and team velocity.
- Regression Test Planning: - Create multiple regression test plans for each project or release to cover different types of testing such as core functionality, specific features or performance testing.
3. Sprint Planning
- High Level Sprint Planning: - Visually lay out your sprints and assign prioritized functionality to their respective sprint buckets via a simple, white-board planning environment.
- Issues: - Define and prioritize impediments and/or risks for managers or the team to address during the iteration.
- Detailed Sprint Planning: - Identify, estimate, and have team members sign up for their respective tasks and tests in a single location.
- Capacity Planning: - Manage team member capacity within an iteration and provide visibility into potential over-utilization.
4. Tracking
- Sprint & Member Tracking: Quickly capture team member actual and/or remaining estimates on assigned work items during an iteration.
- Taskboard & Testboard: - Electronic drag-and-drop environment for visually managing the flow of tasks and tests during an iteration.
- My Dashboard: - Consolidated reporting environment for ScrumMasters, Managers, Directors, Product Owners, etc. to configure their own unique reporting needs.
- Storyboard: - Visually represent the flow of backlog items through the development process, customizing as needed for specific Kanban teams.
- My Work: - Single customizable environment displaying a consolidated view of all the work items assigned to any team member.
5. Review
- Close Sprint: - Display complete and incomplete work for an iteration and either close, split, or select for transition to the next iteration.
- Retrospectives:- Conduct iteration or release-based retrospectives and capture associated action items, issues, or backlog items.






