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Deliver your products faster
Our mission is to empower 1,000 executives by 2030 to enhance their IT product management.
Deliver your products faster
Our mission is to empower 1,000 executives by 2030 to enhance their IT product management.
What We Do
Our product management consultants work with you to improve product development, continuous product discovery, demand management, change and engagement, to release value faster.
Save you $20M+ per year
We've helped hundreds of companies reduce costs.
Improve time to market
Help your product deliver faster, moving from months to weeks.
Reduce risk
Increase transparency across your entire product portfolio with value metrics: impact, flow and capability.
Build resilience
While others are buffeted by market downturn, our clients are more resilient to disruptive change.
Make agile sticky
We're global leaders in agile product management. Our approaches use psychology to make long-lasting change.
Improve productivity
x2 throughput through creating strong guardrails for self-organisation.
Successful change with psychology and AI
We are successful because we use organisational psychology with AI LLM behavioural models to make your changes that have longer lasting impacts.
Leverage AI power
Our AI ML models help you grow your product capability faster.
We go beyond traditional change comms
We move you from talking about change to practices that help everyone adapt to disruption.
Build ability to change
We train your staff to help them expect and adapt to change effortlessly!
Co-create change
We co-design structures so your staff are more invested and feel they're part of change processes.
Our Services
ZXM has 13 years’ experience with end-to-end product management frameworks and operating models.
Product Transformation
While others are buffeted by disruption, our clients are more resilient to disruptive change.
Product Portfolio Management with AI
Use generative AI to set pragmatic goals in cycles of adaptive planning with ZXM's LPM strategies.
Product Operating Models
Improve your organisation's ability to respond to disruptive change without devolving into crisis management.
Agile OKRs
Successfully deliver products and services using our 4 key value metrics model from Scrum.org™ Evidence-Based Management.
Product Training
SAFe®, Scrum, Kanban, Agile Mindset, and Management 3.0 to power your modern delivery capability.
Product Coaching with AI
Leverage our LLM AI – Agile IQ – to grow modern leadership skills and embed new agile capabilities.
Real-world success stories
We’ve helped clients around the world.
Reduced lead time for SuperChoice
See how scrum coaching helped SuperChoice fast-track the start of...
Cross Value Stream Dependency Management with Nexus
To improve coordination of dependencies with external teams in different...
Agile for Procurement, Contracting and Legal
ZXM helped reduce the lead time to sign contracts for...
Certified courses led by hands-on practitioners
Our trainers are active practitioners with over 10 years of practical experience with a wide range of contemporary agile product frameworks, including Scrum, Kanban, LeSS, Nexus and SAFe®.
Insights
A collection of the latest insights, stories and experiences from some of the most experienced agile product management consultants in APAC.
Squadification – Creating high performance teams through self-organisation
Squadification — self-nomination to teams — is a critical strategic lever that can yield executives a 20% increase in productivity.
The “Clue” Retrospective I&A Workshop Structure
The core of this Retrospective workshop pattern is to turn the qualitative and quantitative data review into a mystery for the teams to solve. This fosters engagement, removes blame, and encourages collaborative problem-solving. Mixing up the format keeps it engaging.
Product Management and the Sprint Review: Your Strategic Feedback Loop
In transitioning from a project-based to a product-centric organisation, the role of Scrum evolves significantly. The Sprint Review, traditionally focused on demonstrating completed work, must transform into a dynamic platform for strategic alignment and continuous improvement.
Product Strategy: Where Customer Needs and Technology Align
The pursuit of product management brings technology strategy and product strategy closer than has been previously possible with project management with significant benefits for both.
Agile OKRs to Measure Improvement in Flow and Value Outcomes OKRs
When building Agile OKRs I start with the strategy and then ask if the attribute we are measuring, increased or decreased, and by what percentage? This is why flow metrics around ability to innovate and get to market as well as customer outcomes are where I start to build my Agile OKRs.
How do I run Backlog Refinement
Backlog Refinement is a critical part of good practice in Scrum. Refining the Product Backlog ensures that the Team and Product Owner have sufficient understanding of work to start it in the upcoming Sprint.
3 Key Areas for Digital Transformation
The majority of CIO’s are struggling to balance innovation and operational excellence. Ageing infrastructure affects service quality, poor performance creates negative customer sentiment and ultimately stalls Digital Transformation agenda. To get the balance right, we found there were 3 key areas that were key to successful digital transformation.
Balancing Operational Excellence with Innovation
How many people struggle with juggling Business as usual (BAU) operations as well as delivering products to customers as well as investing in innovation?
Writing Great User Stories
How do you write great User Stories?
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