| | December 20169CIOReviewto grow. It is the central collaboration, planning and execution tool for our software developers. Agile development teams use it to gain an understanding of what work is going through the system and what teams can be brought together into Agile Release Trains and portfolios to meet business objectives.Many of our brands currently use Agile Central, but because of the efficiencies it's helped us create, we are now rolling it out to other brands, including HomeNet Automotive, vAuto and VinSolutions brands later in the year.By using CA Agile Central, we are able to minimize islands of information. This shared platform allows us to get closer to one source of truth, creating full visibility into what is happening from a software development perspective within the Software Group.For the Software Group, our ultimate clients are automotive dealers. CA Agile Central enables collaboration and integrated solutions across business units to meet the market needs of our dealers in the most cost effective and responsive way possible.Additionally, CA Agile Central augments or replaces some of the more team-level tools as a true enterprise-level Agile tool. As our company continues to grow and bring together disparate BUs, we are looking at Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®). We need enterprise-class Agile tools to execute in this SAFe model. CA Agile Central has the functionality that supports Agile at this scale and allows us to support SAFe from a systems perspective. That's a win--win for us. CA PPM Enables Initiative Alignment to Business StrategiesAnother CA Technologies solution that we use is CA PPM. This solution provides a system of record for initiative information in a software-as-a-service application. As our business continues to increase in complexity, so do our initiatives. The CA PPM application enables initiative alignment to business strategies, an enterprise view of aggregated status, and roadmaps for technology and business launches. Managing our initiative investments is an important element of how the company stays on budget for the year and allows us to achieve our profit goals.CA PPM also enables insights for initiative investment decision-making. We can easily identify initiatives that are at risk and those that have not yet started. The tool also allows us to ensure we are appropriately allocating budget among the Run, Grow and Transform investments, and provides the information necessary to re-balance the portfolios should the need arise. We have implemented this tool in several business units, and the system provides the controls, and security parameters we need across the enterprise. Inaction is worse than the wrong action, as you can always move forward from a failed product or service, but you can never move forward by sitting still"
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