There is no doubt that efficient resource management is critical for Operations: DCM allows you to visually plan and steer your daily activities in a collaborative manner and with a high level of detail (15 minutes granularity).

Available capacity can be filled with standardized tasks from a customizable catalogue or with a bulk import from external software, such as a scheduler.

During the execution, operators can easily update task statuses on an ongoing basis and give a visual outlook of execution progress accessible anytime, anywhere, and on any device.

The DCM add-on is fully integrated with the performance management capabilities available in iObeya. In case of deviation, a quick fix can be prompted and a corrective action can be created in a related QCD letter.

Use cases that can be implemented using Daily Capacity Management are:

• Manufacturing scheduling with collaborative progress monitoring
• Quick changeover planning and execution
• Lab daily task management

Many other use cases could be explored, even for office activities outside the shopfloor.

We are delighted to present the Agile add-on, including content and features to help speed up your Agile transformation. Whether teams are using Scrum, Kanban, or their own flavor of Agile project management, they will now have a flexible tool to support their Visual Management practices.

This new add-on lets teams prioritize, assign and track Agile deliverables efficiently by adding two Agile-specific cards, with custom templates to manage Epics, Features and Stories.

We have also introduced a 2 new set of stickers (T-shirt sizes, Poker Planning) that allows teams to have digital collaborative sessions to estimate user stories or job effort.

Thanks to our partnership with Scaled Agile, Inc., we have been able to package most of the Visual Management boards of the Scaled Agile Framework® (or SAFe®). This is a huge bonus for companies seeking to scale Agile across their entire portfolio, or at all levels of their organization.

The resources required to prepare and organize effective Product Increment (PI) Planning sessions are now available in iObeya:

• A Program Kanban with configurable WIP limits for each step of the workflow.
• A configurable PI Program board to collaboratively identify dependencies and risks.
• A PI Team Breakout board allowing teams to break down features into stories to develop and plan upcoming sprints according to their capacity.

You will also find additional SAFe templates available in the iObeya board background catalog, such as the Inspect & Adapt Fishbone, a Risk Roaming board, or the Lean Business Canvas.

People love to combine their Agile Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools with Visual Management boards and post-its to help organize, visualize and collaborate.

The Azure DevOps connector provides two-way integration between iObeya and Azure DevOps, allowing the best of both worlds - no need to duplicate info anymore, and most importantly Visual Management rituals can co-exist, regardless of the location of your team members.

As work gets done in Azure DevOps, updates flow back to iObeya to keep your Visual Management boards up-to-date. iObeya becomes an all-in-one place for your PI Planning sessions, Sprint Planning meetings, Daily Scrum stand-ups, or Agile retrospectives, with your Azure DevOps data at your fingertips.

The main features are:

• Bi-directional data synchronization between iObeya and Azure DevOps
• An Azure DevOps card with 4 customizable field layouts available
• Bulk import Azure DevOps work items to any iObeya board
• Create Azure work items in iObeya
• Import and visualize dependencies between ADO cards on your boards
• Visualize your workflows and sprints with the Azure tables

Supported versions of Azure DevOps:

• Azure DevOps Services
• Azure DevOps Server 2019
• Team Foundation Server 2018 Update 3
• Team Foundation Server 2018 Update 2

The Welcome popup add-on displays a customizable message every time a user logged in iObeya.

This message can be configured by the iObeya platform administrators according to each languages supported in iObeya.

The content can be formatted using basic HTML tags or to insert hyperlinks to another website or some external resources.

The Welcome popup add-on can be useful to notify iObeya users about important information such as a future maintenance operation or to display confidentiality and security policies regarding the information that can be shared into iObeya.

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Performance management and continuous improvement are two fundamental and intertwined building blocks of any Lean and Industry 4.0 system.

Performance management allows you to steer your business. Continuous improvement makes it better, step by step.

Whatever your business, effective performance management and continuous improvement are vital to stay competitive in the long run.

QCD helps you achieve that through:

• An operator-friendly interface with effortless data entry
• Faster decision making with problem escalation and feedback loop
• Overall performance outlook and drill down with indicator consolidation
• Easy data integration with your IT systems via the API
• Easy to deploy add-on with board and room templates 

People love to combine their Agile Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools with Visual Management boards and post-its to help organize, visualize and collaborate.

The Jira connector provides a two-way integration between iObeya and Jira, allowing the best of both worlds - no need to duplicate info anymore, and most importantly Visual Management rituals can co-exist, regardless of the location of your team members.

As work gets done in Jira, updates flow back to iObeya to keep your Visual Management boards up-to-date. iObeya becomes an all-in-one place for your PI Planning sessions, Sprint Planning meetings, Daily Scrum stand-ups, or Agile retrospectives, with your Jira data at your fingertips.

The main features are:

• Bi-directional data synchronization between iObeya and Jira
• A Jira card with 4 customizable field layouts is available
• Bulk import Jira issues to any iObeya board
• Create Jira issues in iObeya
• Transform your iObeya data into Jira issues
• Import and visualize Jira dependencies between Jira cards on your boards
• A Jira table to visualize and modify Jira issues in a user-friendly interface
• Visualize your workflows and sprints with the Jira table

Supported versions of Jira

• Jira Cloud
• Jira Server 8.20 LTS (8.22 minimum for OAuth 2.0 support)
• Jira Server 9.4 LTS (with iObeya 4.14 and upper versions)
• Jira Data Center 8.20 LTS (8.22 minimum for OAuth 2.0 support)
• Jira Data Center 9.4 LTS (with iObeya 4.14 and upper versions)

Making decisions is not so easy when information is scattered across multiple places. The Board Preview allows to gather several pieces of information from different boards within another board, ideal to synthesize content into one single place.

The board preview is picture-in-picture of iObeya boards that allows you to build flexible dashboarding, information escalation, problem solving... essentially anything you can imagine!

You can now visualize any content of a source board into a recipient one. Any updates on the source board will be reflected in real-time on the board preview.

The main features are:

• Selecting a screenshot of any iObeya boards that you have access to
• Visualising board preview updated in real time when the source board is modified or updated
• Displaying a timestamp informing when the source board was last modified
• Cropping a board preview to focus on a desired area of the source board only