#HumanizeWork
Why You Should Choose Nimble?
Choose Nimble, and experience the difference that true understanding of work dynamics can make in your Project Management journey.
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What makes Nimble different?
Nimble stands out as a project management solution born from over two decades of IT service leadership and a decade at the forefront of Agile-Kanban methodologies. Our journey, shaped by diverse global engagements and partnerships with industry leaders, has resulted in a product that truly understands and addresses the complexities of modern work management.
We’ve built Nimble with a unique vision: to humanize work while leveraging cutting-edge technology, offering unparalleled flexibility for your team’s needs.
Our approach combines functional AI with hybrid and pragmatic Agile methodologies, lean visual management, and robust process governance. This powerful blend ensures clarity, efficiency, and data-driven decision-making through advanced analytics and intelligent resource management. Designed for scalability and security, Nimble is trusted by organizations with over 100,000 users in a single instance.
1. HumanizeWork
Thank with Kudos in Nimble Café for Social/Collaborative Execution
- Positive recognition goes a long way.
- Appreciated employees are happier at work.
- Leads to higher creativity and productivity.
- Kudos are a fun and easy way to thank individuals and/or Teams and recognize them on a common platform for everyone.
Celebrate with Nimble Café for Social/Collaborative Execution
- The joy of achievement increases when you share it with your colleagues and celebrate together
- Certifications are example of such accomplishments
- When you add your certification details, Nimble helps you celebrate it with your team by sharing it with everyone
Intelligent Assistance with Nimble Coach for Personalized Identity
- When you get guidance as per your role/persona, it becomes easier to understand and utilize it
- Nimble Coach, powered by Generative-AI answers your questions based on the role/persona you have in Nimble in real time
Ownership with Profile picture on cards/posts for Personalized Identity
- Multiple people may be involved on a single workitem
- Designating a Card Owner helps focus on outcomes
- Ownership builds a sense of belonging and a deeper sense of responsibility
Improve your Inner Execution with current trends and feeds
- Improve your Inner Execution with current trends and feeds
Inner Execution with Motivational Quotes
- A doze of motivation at the start of your workday helps you jump-start your day with the right mindset
Gamification with Badges for motivating behaviour to “Thank-Talk-Celebrate”
- Gamification with Badges for motivating behaviour to “Thank-Talk-Celebrate”
- Nimble’s gamification approach helps an individual earn a Gold, Silver, or Bronze Badges, dynamically
Pull Based Execution builds Fulfilment!
- Nimble supports Pull Based execution by allowing a column to be divided into In-Progress and Waiting columns
- Waiting columns allow a person to pull a card from the previous stage when they are ready to do so
- It allows them to choose what they want to work on. Choice builds fulfillment
Optimize Outcome with ‘Cards Needing Attention’ for Alignment and Transparency
- People are often overloaded. While there is plenty of work to get done, it can be confusing on what to prioritize! ‘Cards Needing Attention’ widget tells the individual what they should act on to get the maximum impact
2. Functional AI: Ubiquitous AI
Generative AI-Powered - Persona Based Coach
- The virtual coach is here to help with advice that will fulfill your work management requirements. All you need to do is drop your questions in the chat.
Converse "Naturally” with Nimble Buddy
- Converse with Nimble directly, instead of typing! Helps your thoughts flow naturally just like a regular conversation with another person
- Nimble Buddy understands your persona. Ask for any suggestion (like you would ask a Coach). You will be impressed with its responses!
AI-Powered Similar Workitem Recommendations
- Nimble trains on your past data to identify similar instances that have been resolved earlier
- It saves time, effort and helps mitigate risks
AI-Powered Auto-fill of Workitems
- In transaction systems, there are often many attributes to be filled, Nimble auto-fills multiple attributes based Name and Description that you enter for the workitem
- Improves productivity and reduces data entry errors
3. Hybrid Agile
Plan Waterfall. Execute Agile.
- Easily define a high-level project plan with Milestones, baseline tracking, Critical Path Planning, and Gantt views for specific teams
- Roll-up sprint-progress to higher level phase and milestone plan to reflect overall project status
- Track progress using Sprint Burndowns, Release Burnups, and Cumulative Flow Diagrams
Multiple Levels of Scheduling
- Nimble supports multiple algorithms to help users who need different levels of scheduling complexity
- Nimble proprietary Simple Scheduling ensures that, Dates remain fixed unless changed explicitly. Supports the most common, Finish-to-Start type of dependency. Provides Gantt View, the de-facto way to visualize schedule on timeline
“Fixed Date” Tasks
- Nimble’s “Fixed Dates” tasks help keep the Planned Start and Planned Finish dates remain fixed, except for dependencies!
4. Lean and Visual Management
Hyper-configurable Value Stream Mapping
- Value Stream Definition helps you visualize day-to-day execution, identify bottlenecks, and recognize constraints with clear visual cues
- Nimble allows you to configure multiple lanes so that different work types can be modeled
Continuous Improvement with Card Aging
- Cycle Time delays happen as cards take more time than planned/expected. Nimble allows you to define multiple thresholds – for each stage of the workflow and for the entire card
- Color-coded thresholds help avoid delays in customer turnaround time
Zoom Views for Cards on Execution Board
- 1x level: See a summary of the entire Board and its cards; a representative glance helps you assess how are things progressing
- 2x level: View basic details of the card; Useful for stand-ups and aggregated views
- 3x level: Detailed view of attributes, actions and shortcuts on the card; perform most card operations from the Board
Card/Work Type-wise Card Layout
- Nimble Card Designer helps visualize the different work items with their relevant attributes
Portfolio Planning with Nimble Boards
- Work is often broken to small and more granular levels. Portfolio views help see the progress at the higher level while teams execute work with the more granular level of cards
- Themes/Epics/Features will have their % Progress computed and reflected on the Board based on the progress of their child cards
Flow Analytics
- Cumulative Flow Diagram: Helps track the performance of the team and the project; see the project velocity
- Flow Efficiency: Helps measure the actual time spent working on the work item versus the total time
- Throughput: Rate of completion of cards per unit time (opposite of team velocity)
- Blocker Analysis: A Pareto analysis of Blocking Reasons and the time lost due to each Reason
“Nimble has improved our project estimation by 80% and our on-time completion rate has gone up by 60%!”
G JESU NAVEEN
Head Process & Quality Asssurance - Medha
5. Pragmatic Agile
Story Mapping
- Success of Agile execution in software development is built on creating small, independent, testable user stories (often, referred to as INVEST criteria)
- Story Mapping, by Jeff Patton, is one of the most recognized ways to meet this criteria
- Define and break the overall scope into small granular work items
- Arrange them in a chronological fashion; do Release and Sprint Planning
Agile Estimation
- Most agile tools are completely devoid of Estimation tools
- Nimble’s Agile Estimation uses Relative Sizing – helps define T-shirt sizing and, if required, convert them to Story Points
- Nimble presents all information to help teams grade cards into different T-shirt size, based on actual execution of past cards
Stand-up Wizard
- Daily scrum is essential ceremony of Agile execution. Non-Agile team use them for their Status meetings
- Designed to follow Scrum’s recommended Standup approach, in a time bound manner
- Ends with the team’s Burndown to share the Sprint status with everyone; explains how the scope of the Sprint changed during the Sprint
Agile Program Management
- Scope: If you want to take out some work items out of scope, this widget helps you identify which of these items the team could consider for descoping
- Time/Schedule: Shows the current progress + predicts the time to completion
- Resource: Shows distribution of people available with relevant skills across the organization, if addition of people is considered as one of the options
Retrospectives for Continuous Improvement
- Designed for anonymous participation, building physiological safety
- Start with an icebreaker to helps team members engage better
- Time guided process to ensure that all stages get the planned time (and no stage gets curtailed)
- No. of votes per participant can be fine-tuned to encourage prioritization of ideas that matter most
Backlog Refinement
- A Backlog can quickly grow out of control and become hard to manage
- That’s why its important to keep refining your Backlog and ensure the right workitems are being prioritized at regular intervals
OKRs
- Nimble’s OKR defines the entire process from Strategy to Execution
- OKRs definition at multiple levels of the organization
- Reflects automated % progress updates from the Projects to the OKRs
- Track key outcomes for the Objectives against their Key Results
6. Process Governance
Process Governance
- Define the default set of Practices, Phases and Activities so that your PMs get a jump-start to building their Task Plans instead of building it right from scratch
- Define the Fields, Forms and even a complete Template based on a well-run Project so that you can standardize and replicate the project’s success
7. Analytics
Outcome Driven Analytics
- Most customers implement data tables and charts
- It is often very confusing about which chart is appropriate for which objective
- Nimble helps you decide the correct chart type/visualization outcome that will serve the purpose of your data analysis
- Slice-n-dice data from 2 to 8 dimensions using various chart types
Organization Hierarchy Based Analytics
- Large organizations need multiple dimensions of data analysis at the CXO level
- Nimble allows to define multiple hierarchies. Location, Business Unit, Vertical, etc
- Nimble allows you to roll-up and drill down data respecting the individual’s access control level
8. Intelligent Resource Management
Intelligent Resource Management
- Getting people with desired skills doesn’t happen due to several constraints. However, alternate skills might be able to suffice your needs
- Alternate skill definition helps to find a close-match of your desired skills
- Depending on multiple factors such as skills, availability, location, people are ranked to try and find the closest fit
Powerful Features to Transform Your Workflow
Improve Productivity
Nimble boosts team efficiency by 60%. Seamlessly assign and track tasks. Align daily efforts with team goals, prioritize effectively, and achieve deadlines with clarity and purpose.
Plan, Execute, & Track Projects
Nimble fosters seamless cross-team collaboration with real-time work visibility. Benefit from centralized oversight that breaks down silos, empowering seamless cross-functional coordination and transparency.
Save Time with Automations
Harness the power of Nimble's Business Rules. Automate routine tasks, transform communication into action, and accelerate idea implementation. Boost Productivity, and focus on meaningful work.