WorkBoard, the Enterprise Strategy and Results Management market leader, announced native integration with Microsoft Azure DevOps for its Enterprise Results Platform, further deepening its interoperability across the Microsoft suite of products.
Already integrated with Microsoft Office favorites’ Teams and Outlook, this new integration now empowers developers using Azure DevOps to take advantage of WorkBoard’s leading Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) software within the software development and issue tracking solution.
As development teams manage their work in Azure DevOps, they can use WorkBoard’s OKRs to quantify how they contribute to the organization’s strategic priorities, clarify the “why” in their work and quantify its impact. WorkBoard gives everyone visibility into how development efforts align with company strategy and the progress toward measurable business outcomes.
“Products are the core of any company’s value to customers so it’s crucial to align development and innovation efforts with the organization’s strategic priorities. Of course, product teams are hungry to make a real impact on customers and their company as well — so aligning and bringing objectives and key results into line of sight day to day is a real win for them as well as customers and the company,” said Deidre Paknad, CEO and co-founder of WorkBoard. “This new integration with Azure DevOps brings OKRs and a structured way of really measuring the near-term business value of work into developers’ experience as they manage that work in Azure DevOps.”
While the sprints and tasks in Azure DevOps help track what work needs to be done and team output, OKRs in WorkBoard measures and manages teams’ business outcomes that work should drive. WorkBoard provides a common, transparent structure to align, define and measure results within product teams and across the array of teams in the customer value chain.
With the new integration, WorkBoard provides a native user experience of OKRs inside the Azure DevOps product and allows users to identify work being tracked in Azure DevOps to update progress toward a key result automatically. Product team users can now:
- Display OKRs defined in WorkBoard as a tab in the Azure DevOps experience.
- See, navigate and comment on OKRs within Azure DevOps.
- Quickly update progress toward key results from within Azure DevOps.
- Automatically update key result progress in WorkBoard as work is completed in Azure DevOps.
- Give the rest of the organization transparency on the objectives and key results every product team is driving.
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