An feature overview of Capgemini's free online agile project monitoring dashboard www.speedbird9.com

1. Welcome to SpeedBird9
Capgemini’s free online
agile project monitoring dashboard

2. SpeedBird9
Create your own projects. Define your own
work process. Follow your work items and
monitor your progress. It’s easy. Online and
free.
Please take a look for yourself at www.speedbird9.com

3. Goals
SpeedBird9 is Capgemini’s free online project monitoring dashboard.
SpeedBird9 targets at collaboration and visibility in organizations, projects
and teams. Especially for projects that have distributed teams.
SpeedBird9 is work item centric. It allows you to easily track the status of
the work items in your projects.
SpeedBird9 is process agnostic. We do not favor Scrum, nor Smart, nor
Kanban, nor traditional approaches. You may use SpeedBird9 to define
the process and the statuses you prefer.
Create your projects, set up your statuses, your estimation scale, invite
people to your team, and monitor the progress of the work items in your
projects.
SpeedBird9 is easy to use, and easy to customize.
SpeedBird9 is a free service Capgemini initiative that runs on Windows
Azure Websites. Its further development is executed by the ADP Core
Team.

4. SpeedBird9
The basics. Defining accounts, projects,
teams and workitems. Doing estimation.
Please take a look for yourself at www.speedbird9.com

5. Accounts
You can register for an account at SpeedBird9 at
any time, based on your email address.
It is always free, but as we support organizations
and projects, we do not allow you to create
accounts using your general email accounts, such
as outlook.com and gmail.com.
After you have created (and confirmed) your
account you can create projects, and join teams
for other projects, even from outside your own
organization.
We do not to use your data for commercial
purposes.

6. Projects
With SpeedBird9 is it very easy to set up a new
project.
When you do, SpeedBird9 will automatically
set up an assignment for you in your project.
To give you a quick start, we pre-define
projects statuses, estimation scale, work item
types. Customize these to your needs. You can
also add a priority scale and work item labels.
Next, invite your co-workers to your project
and add your first work items.

7. Teams
SpeedBird9 is team oriented. Every project is executed
by a project team.
Once you have created a project, it is easy to invite
other people to the team, from your own organization,
but also from other organizations you collaborate with.
As soon as people login to their account, they will see
your invite on their account overview.
Everybody on the team basically can use the same
features of SpeedBird9. As said, we aim at
collaboration.
Please remember that we do not support creating
accounts from more general email providers, such as
outlook.com and gmail.com. Thus, when inviting
people to your team, do not use these more general
addresses.

8. Work items
It is very easy to create new work items in your
project.
You can immediately set the priority, work item
type, status of your new work item, add labels and
assign your work item to any member of the team.
You can add notes and change the status of work
items at any time, or move them on the project
dashboard. Changing the status of course
immediately effects the burn up of your project.
SpeedBird9 keeps the full history of your work
items for you to look back.

9. Estimation
Point-based estimation is key to successfully
measuring your projects progress.
By default, when you create a new project, the
smart use case scale is added, but of course
SpeedBird9 allows you to define your own
points scale, which is used for estimating the
size and complexity of individual work items.
The complexity is also used in calculating the
burn up for your projects, and is displayed in a
number of other useful graphs.

10. SpeedBird9
The advanced. Defining statuses and
priorities. Dashboards, statistics. Imports and
exports. Submitting feedback.
Please take a look for yourself at www.speedbird9.com

11. Statuses
With every project, you can define your own set of
statuses.
From the moment they’re created, work items will
have a status, usually starting with the default
status.
These statuses are used (in display order) to
populate the project dashboard. Work items show
per status, ordered based on their priority.
Statuses have types, such as Initial, In Progress or
Finished. As soon as a work item reaches a
Finished state, it’s points will add to your project’s
burn-up.

12. Priorities
With every project, you can define your own
set of priorities. For a quick start you can
use the MoSCoW rule set with one simple
click.
Priorities are used (using their weights) to
sort the order in which work items are
represented on the project dashboard.
On defining priorities you can set a code
and colors to easily spot priorities on the
dashboard.

13. Dashboards
SpeedBird9 hosts a status oriented dashboard that
is ideal to assist in daily stand-up meetings.
A single overview of all your work items, grouped
by their statuses and ordered by their priorities.
Work items types are displayed using their color
codes.
Drag and drop supplies easy moving of work
items to new statuses.
Extensive filtering allows for viewing user defined
subsets of work items.
We are working on adding new dashboards to
SpeedBird9 to target estimation and prioritization.

14. Import and export
SpeedBird9 allows you to import and export
your projects work items from and to other
sources.
We support importing use cases from a
UML model export (in XMI).
And we support importing and exporting
work items to CSV.
All imports match the items to import to
existing items, and update them where
necessary.

15. Burn up
SpeedBird9’s burn up chart is the perfect
tool for monitoring your projects’ progress.
Our burn up shows you the number of
points in scope of the project, compared to
the number of finished points.
Moreover, the burn up also extrapolates
your progress to predict your likely iteration,
release or project end date.
Every time a work item changes status, the
burn up is automatically recalibrated.

16. Stats
SpeedBird9 offers a number of very useful
graphs and statistics about your project.
Express the status of your project in a pie chart,
with points per status or items per status.
View you team’s velocity, per day, per week,
per two weeks or per month.
Show the overview of your project’s estimates.
We are adding new graphs and stats based on
your feedback. Please let us know what charts
you would like to see on SpeedBird9.

17. Using your feedback
As you might expect, the SpeedBird9 Core
Team uses the tool to monitor further
development and innovation.
We depend on your feedback to drive our
development. To facilitate easy feedback we
added a submit feedback form to
SpeedBird9.
Please help us further improve and send us
your feedback.

18. SpeedBird9
Create your own projects. Define your own
work process. Follow your work items and
monitor your progress. It’s easy. Online and
free.
Please take a look for yourself at www.speedbird9.com