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Digital.ai Agility

Score8.5 out of 10

43 Reviews and Ratings

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What is Digital.ai Agility?

Digital.ai Agility (formerly VersionOne) helps organizations harness the power of their people’s knowledge, processes, and technology to build agile practices that scale across the enterprise. Its capabilities enable organizations to align products and investments with strategic business goals by coordinating planning, tracking, and reporting work across large distributed companies. Digital.ai Agility connects business strategy with team execution, providing a unified view at all levels, from the portfolio to teams. It helps everyone from executives to developers collaborate, communicate, and gain visibility within a single environment.

CollabNet merged with VersionOne in 2017, and merged with XebiaLabs and Arxan in April 2020.

Categories & Use Cases

Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Digital.ai Agility has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
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Top Performing Features

  • Task Management

    This includes the ability to plan, track, collaborate and report on tasks.

    Category average: 9

  • Support for Agile Methodology

    Agile is a time boxed, iterative approach to development that builds software incrementally instead of trying to deliver it all at once near the end.

    Category average: 8.9

  • Velocity Calculation

    Product uses historical data to calculate team velocity and help understand how much time future work will take.

    Category average: 8.4

Areas for Improvement

  • Mobile Access

    Mobile access is the ability to access the software from a smartphone or tablet.

    Category average: 4.7

  • Document Management

    Document management provides for centralized management of all project documents.

    Category average: 7.2

  • Email integration

    Email integration allows work requests to be made directly from email.

    Category average: 7.3

Reviews

What users are saying about Digital.ai Agility.
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Digital.ai Agility is a great product for tracking the work of software teams

Incentivized
Todd Burkholder
Software Development Manager in Information Technology at Our Sunday Visitor, Inc (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Digital.ai Agility extensively to track all the work done by our scrum teams. We have 6 feature teams that use this on a daily basis. The team rooms are one of the features we like best about the platform. Each team has their own team room which they use as the main way to track their daily work. The ability to group stories into Portfolio Items and track larger projects has also been very helpful to the Product Owners and managers.

Pros

  • Team Rooms
  • Support the Scrum process
  • Provides easy ways to keep track of the work the team is doing

Cons

  • Although Digital.ai Agility supports customizations, they can be somewhat cumbersome to set up and maintain
  • The Analytics engine's user experience for digging into the data does not have the same feel as the rest of the system and, as a result, can be hard to work with

Return on Investment

  • Digital.ai Agility has helped us adopt and continue to follow agile best practices

Alternatives Considered

Azure DevOps Services and Trello

Empower your Agile teams and increase their productivity with VersionOne.

Incentivized
Gene BakerView profile
Vice President, Chief Architect, Development Manager and Software Engineer in Information Technology at WySTAR Global Retirement Solutions, a Wells Fargo Company (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • Backlog maintenance
  • Notifications
  • Planning for both sprints and releases
  • Defect tracking
  • Storyboards
  • Collaboration

Cons

  • Better support for our hybrid methodology where things aren't 100% agile.

Return on Investment

  • At first, it was difficult for the teams as we were learning Agile and VersionOne. But VersionOne provided us with great training and support. As such the teams were able to quickly adopt and embrace Agile.
  • Our teams are now more efficient.
  • Our time to market has decreased significantly.

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Project and Rally Software (formerly CA Agile Central)

Other Software Used

Atlassian Jira Align (formerly AgileCraft), MongoDB

Version One - Good Tool to implement SAFe

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Sourav Singla ,Safe Agilist, CSP, ICP-ACC, CSM, CSPO, SSM, LSSGView profile
Enterprise Agile Coach in Information Technology at Tata Consultancy Services (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • For Distributed teams, collaboration is the biggest concern. So in Version one there is awesome feature for collaboration, called ‘Conversations’ which can be used by teams to discuss work and ideas. It helps in keeping all stakeholders at same page & enhances transparency.
  • To track forward & backward dependencies, it has feature called Visualization which lets you trace all project activities through multiple levels to see how stories are related and can help you in identifying blocking issues/impediments.
  • Integrates well with GitHub so whenever new build is triggered, the build version is updated to the story on Version One. So its keeps everyone updated & no need to send mails/release notes after the deployments.
  • It provides good support for continuous improvement, the basic requirement for scrum teams as it has feature called “Ideas" - an idea submission and voting platform for team members.
  • I also found the goal page very useful, here you can list the goals for the team & leadership and track which goals are completed & which are in progress.
  • The team room feature offer a place to see team backlog, a storyboard for the current sprint & task board for the current sprint. This feature is there in Agilecraft s well & I found it very useful.
  • For sizing the stories, it includes the mini-game 'Estimably' which helps teams estimate stories anonymously. Anonymously is the key here.
  • Tracking team progress is easy using Sprint Tracking feature & Task board. Sprint Tracking shows the total estimates, capacity, completed hours, etc. & Task board shows which story is done, in progress & not started.

Cons

  • Set up is a little complicated when compared to other tools.
  • Version one comes with lot of features like Rally but here we don’t get customization which is there in Jira, where from workflow to issue everything can be customized based on your team/program/portfolio requirements.
  • I found it bit slow specifically when a particular story has test, documents tagged/attached to it.
  • Lot of navigation to access basic stuff. Example: if I want to go to bug attachment , there are lot of clicks & navigation need to do which should be pretty straightforward I feel.
  • Test Management need improvement in terms of tracking tests, team had hard time tracking regression test cases.
  • Support desk is not good , if contacted they will confuse you more, better google the thing you want to do rather than connecting with support desk.

Return on Investment

  • We were able to implement SAFe successfully using Version One tool. It awesome support for safe practices like Strategic themes, budgeting, WSJF prioritization, PI planning, roadmaps, safe metrics, continuous delivery makes the difference.
  • Leadership is able to track critical programs using version one. Also 40+ agile metrics provides good view to leadership on progress of their critical initiatives & they were able to take right decisions based on the current state of program.
  • The collaboration tools like Conversations & integration with slack helped in effective distributed team collaboration by keeping all stakeholders at same page.
  • It allows top leadership to visualize and report their strategic plans, giving all stakeholders the relevant data that they need to stay dedicated to the program priorities.

Alternatives Considered

AgileCraft and CA Agile Central (formerly Rally)

Other Software Used

AgileCraft, CA Agile Central (formerly Rally)

CollabNet VersionOne is exceptional

Incentivized
Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Automated saving of changes, no records can be lost because all items are saved in real-time.
  • The watch function, optional but beneficial when managing multiple teams or projects.

Cons

  • An optional presentation mode could be good for multi-site
  • Built-in snipping tool

Return on Investment

  • Not involved in the ROI analysis

Alternatives Considered

Atlassian Jira Align (formerly AgileCraft)

Other Software Used

Salesforce Community Cloud, Salesforce Commerce Cloud

VersionOne will help coordinate your Scrum teams across multiple sites

Incentivized
Michelle Gamboa, CSMView profile
Adobe Experience Manager Mobile High Profile Quality Engineer in Engineering at Adobe (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • VersionOne makes it easy to create stories and move them across teams, as needed.
  • VersionOne's team view gives the team a clear view of the work to be done, work in progress, and work completed. This is particularly useful to have as a visual aid in stand ups or during reviews.
  • VersionOne allows the team to track capacity and work for each story which is useful to determining if the story is still on track.

Cons

  • Saving of changes is inconsistent. Sometimes the changes appear to save automatically and other times the user needs to click the "Apply" button. Until the user is familiar with when this needs to happen, work can easily be lost.
  • This may be a setup configuration issue, but it would be good to be able to set the default team when creating stories. Too often stories are created and the user forgets to enter the team and they need to search the entire database for the story that was just created.

Return on Investment

  • The ramp up took a lot of man hours, but once we all learned it, I think it went much more smoothly. I think roll out has a big impact on this. If a team had set this up with Epics and rolled it out to the teams to fold our stories into it instead of everyone figuring it all out at the same time, it would have been less headache for all of the team members and less time and money spent. I don't have specific numbers since I am not part of that side of the business.
  • On the positive side, this did allow all our teams to coordinate better in one organizing tool. It doesn't work as well for teams who work better with Kanban, but it still allows visibility across all the teams.

Other Software Used

JIRA Software, Trello