UtilityDelta
Forecast Without Estimating.
Visualise
Recursively breakdown tasks, link up dependencies and visualise your project structure.
Identify unknowns
Mitigate risks early in the project lifecycle. Track your task completion rate.
Forcast project completion
Simulate project execution based on historical data. Experiment with different team compositions.
Technical Details
UtilityDelta is a tool for small teams to help manage the planning and execution of small to medium sized projects.
- Free to use for your entire team.
- Offline-first. If you share or backup your project on the cloud, your data is end-to-end encrypted first.
- Generate a share link and send it to your team. Collaborate in real-time.
Need enterprise features such as centralised control & SSO? Contact Us! We also have a Jira plugin (data is kept within Atlassian ecosystem).
Use Case - Jack's Software Development Team
Jack is a team lead. His team is working on a new set of features for their company's financial software product. For the next iteration, he's been given some high level requirements, time boxed to around 6 weeks.
Jack and his team gather to talk about the upcoming work. Jack creates a new UtilityDelta project and shares it with the team. Their meeting is raw and unstructured - a brainstorming session, collaborating in real-time. At the end of the meeting they have a half decent breakdown of the work involved, some high level dependency structure, and a bunch of unknowns that they need to explore.
The team spends some time working through the unknowns. A few days later they meet up again to break these down properly. Some of the work requires specific skills - so they make sure to mark these down on the relevant tasks. UtilityDelta estimates that they will finish this work in 10 weeks' time.
Armed with a detailed breakdown of the work and an estimated completion date, Jack goes back to management. There is a bit of pushback. Can it be done faster? Jack adds some extra resources in a 'What-if' scenario in UtilityDelta - right away management can see that by adding two more developers with a machine learning skillset, they can get it done in 6 weeks.
The iteration starts. Jack uses UtilityDelta to monitor the team's progress. As each week passes, UtilityDelta is able to provide a more accurate estimate for the project's completion date. He also can very quickly spot any scope creep, allowing him to take action.
Jack's team delivers on the new functionality. By breaking down the work, establishing dependencies and tracking their progress, the simulations provided by UtilityDelta mapped close to how the project played out in reality. Great job team!
