ANDRE BICKFORDSR SOFTWARE DEV

MANAGER • COMSCORE

Long Term Planning + AgilityWonders of Portfolio

RUBYNA K BRENDENMANAGER, TECHNICAL

PROJECT MANAGEMENTCOMSCORE

PR O J EC T A N D PO R T F O L I O M A N A GEM EN T

PO R T F O L I O A T C O M SC O R E

K EY T A K EA WA YS

AgendaA B O U T C O M SC O R E

About comScore

TV / VOD Digital Online

Audience Measurement & Analytics

Engineering @ comScore

Front End

Backend

API

QA

PM/BA

UI/UX

Product

Reliability

Ops

PROJECT

PROJECT

PROJECT

PROJECT

PROJECT

PROJECT

PROJECT

PROJECT

PROJECT

PROJECT

PROJECT

PROJECT

PROJECT

Concept

comScore’s SDLC

Requirements

Estimation

Planning

Execution

In Service

Portfolio at comScore

A Dev & TPM Manager actually speak the same

language? ( Here’s how it went… )

Portfolio was just launched!

Ohh no, it’s Ruby again with another

process!

But But…

Running to endless meetings …

I’ll know my devs and teams and allocate accordingly!

Capacity Planning

Ability to set detailed Individual team schedules.

View by Sprint

View byIndividual Capacity

Allocation

There are so many dev teams and cross functional is hard to

deal with!

Project Planning to the core!

Cross-Functional Team Setup

We are able to track all of our cross-functional team’s work in sprints or projects in an easy snap shot!

View of Individual Teams

Sprint View by Teams

We want dates now. Yesterday.

Problem Solved!

Roadmap View

Project Schedules

Drill down to the details of a project for scope, delivery dates…

View by High-level

Project Schedule

Detailed Project

View

It’s complicated

Not really. It’s a matter of perspective.

Skills and Stages

Stages by Functional Teams

Releases

Associate you projects with Release-cycles tied to start/end date constraints.

View by

Individual / Cross-project Releases

Dependencies

Dependencies are clearly highlighted

once a project is selected.

I’m tired of so many platforms!

You don’t have to worry about that here!

Jira Software IntegrationImport

Boards/Filters from Jira easily

Dynamic or Manual Synch!

Where are we at? On Target?

I hear they are working on that but…

Reporting

Produce KPIs with the Reporting feature, we’ve setup product lines as themes and measure the goals accordingly.

Set Themes& Targets

View of Actuals

based on progress of

projects.

Project Management

Minimal Overhead

Dynamic Management

Change in mindset

Project Management - TPM Increased Efficiency

High Visibility

Cross Team Coordination

Project Management - DevManager

Sprint Commitments

Team Assignments

Code Quality vsTimelines

Portfolio Management

Stakeholder Collaboration

Hiring and CapacityForecasting

Annual Technology Roadmap

Delivery Timelines

Aha Integration

Key Takeaways

Start Simple

The Projects are the Project Plan

Adapt the Tool to Your Processes

Quickly Build a Roadmap with T-shirt

Sized Issues

Capable of Modeling Complex Matrix of Functional Teams

Thank you!

ANDRE BICKFORDSR. SOFTWARE DEV

MANAGER • COMSCORE

RUBYNA K BRENDENMANAGER, TECHNICAL

PROJECT MANAGEMENT COMSCORE

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