At comScore, we’ve planned a year’s worth of work for an organization of 140+ members across multiple teams, with several business units all collaborating on various projects. And like many, we’re an organization trying to stay agile along the way. Learn about our successes and lessons that got us to this point, and how implementing Portfolio for JIRA has changed the way we plan. We’ll go into how we do Capacity Planning, People Management, Schedule Management, and Reporting, with insight from both a PM and Engineering Manager. Find out how teams can leverage Portfolio to strategically plan and quickly adapt to a changing landscape, and track progress on their projects. Products covered: Portfolio for JIRA

1. ANDRE BICKFORD
SR SOFTWARE DEV
MANAGER • COMSCORE
Long Term Planning + Agility
Wonders of Portfolio
RUBYNA K BRENDEN
MANAGER, TECHNICAL
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
COMSCORE

2. PROJECT AND PORTFOLIO
MANAGEMENT
PORTFOLIO AT COMSCORE
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Agenda
ABOUT COMSCORE

3. About comScore

4. TV / VOD Digital Online
Audience Measurement & Analytics

5. 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

6. Concept
comScore’s SDLC
Requirements
Estimation
Planning
Execution
In Service

7. Portfolio at comScore

8. A Dev & TPM Manager
actually speak the same
language?
( Here’s how it went… )

9. Portfolio was just
launched!

10. Ohh no, it’s Ruby
again with another
process!
But But…

11. Running to endless
meetings …
I’ll know my devs and teams and
allocate accordingly!

12. Capacity Planning
Ability to set detailed
Individual team schedules.
View by
Sprint
View by
Individual
Capacity
Allocation

13. There are so many dev teams
and cross functional is hard to
deal with!
Project Planning to
the core!

14. 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

15. We want dates
now. Yesterday.
Problem Solved!

16. Roadmap View

17. Project Schedules
Drill down to the details of a
project for scope, delivery
dates…
View by
High-level
Project Schedule
Detailed
Project
View

18. It’s complicated
Not really. It’s a matter of
perspective.

19. Skills and Stages
Stages by
Functional
Teams

20. Releases
Associate you projects with
Release-cycles tied to
start/end date constraints.
View by
Individual / Cross-project Releases

21. Dependencies
Dependencies
are clearly highlighted
once a project is selected.

22. I’m tired of so many
platforms!
You don’t have to worry
about that here!

23. Jira Software Integration
Import
Boards/Filters
from Jira easily
Dynamic or
Manual
Synch!

24. Where are we at?
On Target?
I hear they are
working on that but…

25. Reporting
Produce KPIs with the
Reporting feature, we’ve
setup product lines as
themes and measure the
Set Themes
& Targets
View of
Actuals
based on
progress of
projects.

26. Project Management

27. Minimal Overhead
Dynamic Management
Change in mindset
Project
Management
- TPM Increased Efficiency
High Visibility

28. Cross Team
Coordination
Project
Management
- Dev
Manager
Sprint Commitments
Team Assignments
Code Quality vs
Timelines

29. Portfolio Management

30. Stakeholder
Collaboration
Hiring and Capacity
Forecasting
Annual
Technology
Roadmap
Delivery Timelines
Aha Integration

31. Key Takeaways

32. Start Simple

33. The Projects are the
Project Plan

34. Adapt the Tool to
Your Processes

35. Quickly Build a
Roadmap with T-shirt
Sized Issues

36. Capable of Modeling
Complex Matrix of
Functional Teams

37. Thank you!
ANDRE BICKFORD
SR. SOFTWARE DEV
MANAGER • COMSCORE
RUBYNA K BRENDEN
MANAGER, TECHNICAL
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
COMSCORE

38. Additional Slides