Breaking Free of Missed Deadlines with Cardagraph
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As Product Operations Manager, Dom oversees Degreed's release planning and management.
Cardagraph has been a close and trusted partner of Degreed for years.
Cardagraph release planning, capacity planning, Gantt roadmap, timeline forecasting, real-time status updates.
About Degreed
Degreed is a leading learning and skills platform that empowers organizations to build a culture of lifelong learning and drive business growth. With a comprehensive suite of tools and resources, Degreed enables companies to upskill their workforce, align learning with strategic objectives, and measure the impact of their learning initiatives.
Degreed's platform offers a personalized learning experience tailored to individual needs and goals. Employees can access a vast library of courses, videos, books, and other learning materials from top providers, as well as create and share their own content. The platform's intelligent recommendation engine suggests relevant learning opportunities based on an individual's interests, skills, and career aspirations.
With a total company headcount of over 500, Degreed's product development team is one of the largest within the organization, including 100 engineers. This dedicated workforce drives continuous innovation and enhancement of Degreed's platform, ensuring that it remains at the forefront of the learning and skills development industry.
Before implementing Cardagraph, Degreed faced significant hurdles in effectively planning and executing their product releases. One of the primary challenges was scoping the work to fit within a single major release period. With multiple teams and numerous projects in the pipeline, it became increasingly difficult to accurately estimate the workload and align it with the release timeline.
Another pressing issue was the inability to identify early on which items would not make it into the upcoming release. This lack of visibility often led to last-minute scrambling and disappointment, as features or enhancements had to be pushed back, impacting both internal and external stakeholders.
Moreover, Degreed struggled with clearly identifying blockers and dependencies across their various projects. Tracking these interdependencies was a manual and time-consuming process, leaving room for oversights and delays. The lack of a centralized view made it challenging to proactively address potential roadblocks, further compounding the release planning difficulties.

"Overall we're very satisfied with Cardagraph's impact on our organization."
Implementing Cardagraph
Since implementing, working with Cardagraph has yielded significant benefits. By utilizing Cardagraph's capabilities to analyze their Jira instance, the team has been able to identify and clean up work items that were causing clutter and confusion.
This has enabled Degreed to become more efficient in their workflow, as well as improve communication across teams. With a more organized and streamlined Jira instance and Cardagraph's data capabilities on top of it, it's easier for everyone to understand the current state of work, identify dependencies, and prioritize effectively.
Looking ahead, Degreed is optimistic that Cardagraph will continue to bring even greater value to their product development and release planning processes. By leveraging Cardagraph's advanced analytics and planning tools, the team expects to gain a clearer picture of their roadmap, better align work to strategic goals, and more accurately forecast release timelines and scope.
With a more data-driven and transparent approach to release planning, Degreed has built trust and confidence from stakeholders across the organization, as well as a higher percentage of planned work being delivered on time and within scope.


Disgruntled Customers
Internally, the product development team lacked confidence in their ability to accurately plan releases. With a low percentage of planned work shipped on time in the past year, there was a sense of uncertainty around their planning processes and capacity to meet targets consistently.
Perhaps most concerning was the lack of trust from the wider organization in the product development team's ability to accomplish their plans. With stakeholders across the company relying on the timely delivery of new products and features, the team's perceived struggles with release planning undermined confidence in their capabilities.
Release Planning Challenges Before
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Impact of Release Planning Issues
Degreed's struggles with release planning and delivering products to market had significant consequences for the company. One major impact was the loss of potential revenue due to delayed releases. When planned work failed to ship on time, it meant new features and enhancements were not available to customers as expected, hindering Degreed's ability to generate revenue from those offerings.
Another challenge was mitigating client frustration caused by missed commitments. When items were pushed back from their intended release, it led to dissatisfaction among Degreed's customers who had been anticipating the promised functionality. Managing this frustration and maintaining positive client relationships became an ongoing effort.
"The Cardagraph team has been lovely to work with - super responsive and genuinely caring about solving the problems facing product and engineering teams."
Dom Fosson

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Large ROI
Increased Customer Trust
"North Star" of Release Management
Before implementing Cardagraph, Degreed faced significant hurdles in effectively planning and executing their product releases. Since Cardagraph, they are now 90% confident in hitting their release timelines.
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Breaking Free of Missed Deadlines with Cardagraph
Dominic Fosson, Product Operations Manager
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November 2022 through Present

Overall Impact of Cardagraph
Cardagraph has provided Degreed with a "north star" goal to drive towards - a vision of streamlined release planning and delivery processes. This clear target has motivated the organization to address longstanding issues in how work is structured and managed.
The impact of Cardagraph extends beyond just the software itself. It has sparked a transformation within Degreed, inspiring them to optimize their workflows and data hygiene. This organizational shift positions Degreed to maximize the value they can derive from Cardagraph's powerful release planning and delivery tools.
As Degreed continues aligning their processes with Cardagraph's best practices, they are unlocking new levels of efficiency, transparency, and predictability in their product development cycles. Cardagraph has catalyzed a cultural change, empowering Degreed to operate with greater agility and consistently meet their release commitments.
About Cardagraph
Cardagraph is the worldwide leader in release management planning. Founded in 2019, Cardagraph has quickly become the go-to tool for release management teams for the Fortune 500. Through the use of your team’s historical data and their proprietary algorithms, Cardagraph enables those in charge of release planning and management to save hours of time every day while increasing planning accuracy.
Learn more by visiting www.cardagraph.com.
TRUST
Improved Planning with Cardagraph
With Cardagraph's powerful release planning capabilities, Degreed has seen a significant boost in their ability to deliver planned work on time. By gaining visibility into dependencies, blockers, and potential roadblocks early in the planning process, the team can proactively address issues and ensure a smoother path to on-time delivery.
Moreover, Cardagraph's data-driven approach and advanced analytics provide Degreed's product development teams with a newfound level of confidence in their release planning abilities. With accurate insights and forecasting, they can make informed decisions and set realistic expectations, minimizing the need for last-minute changes or delays.
This increased confidence in release planning translates into heightened trust from the rest of the organization. Stakeholders across different departments have greater assurance that the product development team can deliver on their commitments, fostering better alignment and collaboration throughout the company.

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