Agile Hive vs. Ferryt

Agile Hive is used for our value train
within a SAFe setup. Every quarter we organize a so-called Product Increment
(PI) Planning, where we plan all Features and Enablers in Agile Hive.
Based on the priority of the Product Manager all teams plan their Features and
Enablers accordingly to the sprints that are determined by the Release Train
Engineer and set up in Agile Hive. The teams then create User Stories and
estimate them and based on their sprint velocity (defined in Agile Hive)
Product Owners can see how many Features and Enablers are realistic in one
quarter (Product Increment). Further, dependencies across teams can be defined
and made visible in Agile Hive, so that the plan is feasible. Without Agile
Hive it would be hard or impossible to plan across several teams within a value
train and to manage all dependencies. Additionally, with Agile Hive the plan is
more realistic, so what can be achieved within one quarter in product
development.

Incentivized

Ferryt will work well in scenarios where you need to create forms for obtaining data from customers, initiating business referrals, presenting offers. Ferryt is an excellent tool for scenarios involving a large number of integrations with other applications. I think that Ferryt is less appriopriate for complex scenarios which contain big data transformations and transfers

• Roadmapping in terms of defining epics and planning them across a timeline and across teams.
• Showing dependencies within teams and across teams and over time horizon.
• Create transparency throughout the product organization and teams about what is planned.

• Vast capabilities for automating processes.
• Ease of integration with other systems and various APIs
• Versatility and efficiency of the solution

• I believe the training and support could be more hands on and easier.
• The Agile Hive - SAFe in Jira product can be a bit robust to understand.
• Having Knowledge transfer videos can help more than documentations.

Incentivized

• Integration with CI/CD applications like Azure Pipelines
• Improved log management
• GenAI integration for creating initial process templates

It has in general a good usability, but there are some downsides, the big picture view of the entire product increment is too static, so there is no zoom in or zoom out. Mostly throughout planning it is necessary to zoom in to a sprint level and manage the user stories there. Also, the pig picture view has some limitations, because you cannot read the entire user story name (boxes are too small).

Incentivized

I have been working with the Ferryt platform for many years. Automating business and internal processes with it is simple and effective. Thanks to the Ferryt platform, my company has undoubtedly undergone a major transformation over the years, enabling many employees to save time and the company to save money. Even if errors occasionally occur during use, Domdata's support staff handle them well.

With Jira Software alone it is also possible to plan a SAFe product increment planning, but it would be nearly impossible to see the overall big picture of all product teams involved in a release train. So, the planning on sprint level for one team would be more efficient, but the planning for a whole quarter with all dependencies across teams would be not feasible to present. Therefore, Agile SAFe enables value trains an efficient way to plan a product increment.

Incentivized

• More transparency.
• Better product decisions.
• Saving time and resources.
• Less critical dependencies.

• Various internal processes of the company have been automated
• Product sales have been greatly enhanced thanks to intuitive processes for customers
• a lot of money and tons of paper have been saved