TCS MasterCraft™ for Value Stream Management
An enterprise agile portfolio planning and delivery platform
Solution
TCS MasterCraft™
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Highlights
- TCS MasterCraft™ aligns the various workstreams to strategize and ensure business value is ultimately delivered to the customer.
- Tracking the actual progress of targets is enabled along with the complete end-to-end value stream visibility and traceability of all lifecycle entities.
- It helps program or product owners define the business value, ultimately delivering anticipated value out of each value stream.
TCS MasterCraft™ is also available as a SaaS deployment under the brand name Jile™.
Introduction
While enterprises race to gain competitive advantage through digital technologies, their agile teams need a simple yet powerful platform to manage their pragmatic continuous delivery. TCS MasterCraft™ helps users to set the product/program's strategic vision, define their prominent objectives/initiatives at the strategic level, and helps the stakeholders to align the value stream with respect to strategic objectives and initiatives.
While enterprises compete to gain competitive advantage through digital technologies, their IT teams need to portray superior performance by delivering high-quality products and services faster than ever before. High-performing IT teams deploy more frequently with significantly shorter lead times and fewer failures. To deliver at such rapid speeds and quality continuously, teams must embrace agile and quality management practices, and adopt strong automation platforms.
Overview
TCS MasterCraft™ enables organizations to align strategy to team execution by providing a unified view from portfolios and programs to teams and helps business stakeholders and teams to collaborate effectively, thereby delivering valuable software faster to the market. Through its lean budgeting and allocation, it further enables the business stakeholders to make wise investment decisions in response to business outcomes and achieve targeted business goals. It helps enterprises to:
Manage strategic objectives and key initiatives
Lean budgeting and utilization
Align strategy to team execution
Get real-time portfolio rolled-up views
Our capability
Plan and deliver value with unique in-built collaboration of stakeholders, workflow management, and end-to-end traceability. TCS MasterCraft™ can align the various workstreams to strategize and ensure business value is ultimately delivered to the customer. It helps the users to plan and execute all the steps in the value stream right from demand to deployment into production. Value Stream Management capability helps the users with the following features:
Identify and manage value streams aligning backlog items like capabilities, epics, features, and user stories to the value streams
Identify and manage multiple development value streams within multiple programs and products
Fund/budget and resource the right kind of value streams
Collaborate with all the stakeholders to get the right inputs and make right decisions for planning and executing value streams
Identify and eliminate bottlenecks to ensure a smooth flow of value
Getting end-to-end visibility and control into all value streams
Manage the end-to-end delivery lifecycle management within each value stream, collaborative participation of stakeholders
Define the desired state and move towards the same
Generate dashboards and reports
Benefits
The following are the benefits of using TCS MasterCraft™:
Helps to manage value streams, to track the downstream application development, to plan portfolio backlogs, and to implement portfolio governance.
Supports multi-modal environment and provides one-click build, deploy, test, and release through continuous delivery to manage deployment procedures and automate deployment to environments.
Helps to engage different teams across SDLC processes on a single platform and ensures effective collaboration and discussions through alerts, notifications, and hashtags, thereby reducing requirements to deploy cycle time.
Helps the business stakeholders make wise investment decisions in response to business outcomes to achieve targeted business goals through lean budgeting and allocation.
“We have completely automated our deployments seamlessly with TCS MasterCraft™. It has helped us deliver more with every release, with high quality and lesser time.”-Avinash Naik, Senior Vice President, BAGIC