Many companies are investing heavily in Agile planning and are finding tools to help them achieve goals and reach operational milestones more easily and efficiently. Agile tools focus on assigning work based on a sprint duration and the Epic or Feature it is tied to but lack the ability to show the greater picture on all work happening in the organization, leaving people and teams over-allocated. Tempus Resource bridges the gap between team assignments and the people associated with them with resource forecasting for teams, people, roles, and skills. Whether it’s through our open REST API or through a native integration, organizations using Tempus Resource have a full picture into the enterprise’s projects – regardless of who is using what tool. Organizations can bring in work from multiple sources to make sure their resource plan is accurate, complete, and relevant to the entire organization.

Benefits of Integrating Tempus Resource with Agile Planning Tools

Tempus can connect to any Agile platform where export is available. Many common Agile integrations with Tempus Resource include Jira, Azure DevOps, and ServiceNow. Integrating your Agile platform with Tempus Resource allows you to leverage the best of both platforms to gain better visibility and forecasting capabilities for product development, operational work, and projects. These Agile platforms excel in Agile project management, task tracking, and issue resolution, while Tempus Resource provides sophisticated resource management, capacity planning, and forecasting capabilities. Integrating the two creates visibility into all work, no matter the person or team assigned.

Here’s how integrating your Agile software with Tempus Resource will benefit you:

1. Centralized Resource Visibility
   • Sync your Agile platform’s features or epics with Tempus Resource to gain a unified view of resource allocation across all work.
2. Enhanced Forecasting
   • Use Tempus Resource to predict resource needs for Agile and longer project initiatives, balancing priorities and timelines effectively.
3. Dynamic Resource Allocation
   • Plan and adjust both people and Team Resources in real time to avoid over-allocation and ensure teams are appropriately staffed for both Agile and traditional projects.
4. What-If Scenario Planning
   • Simulate potential changes to product development or operational priorities to anticipate bottlenecks and optimize workloads.
5. Sprint and Resource Alignment
   • Link your Agile software’s sprint planning with Tempus Resource forecasting to set realistic goals and ensure sufficient team capacity for features and epics.
6. Operational Work Integration
   • Plan and track operational resources alongside development efforts, ensuring support tasks don’t hinder Agile or project-based work.
7. Workload Balancing for Hybrid Teams
   • Manage teams, and the people on them, working across Agile, operational, and projects with Tempus Resource’s capacity visibility to prevent conflicts and over-utilization.
8. Comprehensive Reporting
   • Generate analytics on resource allocation across all workstreams, providing leadership with insights into resource consumption and progress.
9. Unified Methodology Management
   • Combine Agile and traditional workflows in Tempus Resource for better visibility and planning across diverse project types.
10. Workforce Planning
    • Align Teams and people to understand not only what the demand and availability is today but also what it will be in the future. With resource forecasts that align with an organization’s strategic initiatives, project, HR, and finance leaders can work together to create a training and hiring strategy.

Implementation Steps:

1. Configure Integration: Set up seamless data exchange between your Agile platform and Tempus Resource, ensuring accuracy and consistency in epic or sprint details.
2. Define Key Processes: Establish clear guidelines for managing epic data in your Agile software to ensure clean data flows into Tempus Resource.
3. Provide Training: Educate project managers and resource planners on leveraging Tempus Resource for scenario planning, analytics, and forecasting.
4. Monitor and Refine: Regularly review integration performance and optimize workflows for evolving project demands.

By integrating your Agile software with Tempus Resource, you’ll achieve better resource forecasting, balanced workloads, and a unified approach to managing agile and traditional projects. This ensures efficient resource utilization and alignment with business priorities.

Read more about how effective resource management can help your organization achieve its goals and what to look for in a resource management solution with our Buyers’ Guide for Resource Management. For more reading, check out our blog post about why resource management is important in Agile methodology. To learn more about how Tempus Resource can help with your resource management needs, see Tempus Resource in action with one of our use case-specific demos. If you would like a customized demo for your organization, you can reach out to us.