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Improving product management for over a decade
Our strategies improve product management and people's work lives. Our strategies have reduced costs for companies by $20M+ per year.
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Improving product management for over a decade
Our strategies improve product management and people's work lives. Our strategies have reduced costs for companies by $20M+ per year.
Total reduced costs
$
0
M
What We Do
Our strategies improve your productivity. We help you deliver faster, cheaper, and scalable with real, tangible business outcomes.
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 delivery risk
Increase transparency across your entire product portfolio with value metrics: impact, flow and capability.
Build enterprise 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 company productivity
x2 throughput through creating strong guardrails for self-organisation.
We improve product delivery
We work collaboratively with our clients to create strategies and build operating models so you are prepared for change, expect it, and adapt more easily.
Improve quality
Reduce costs
Deliver faster
Be agile
We build resilience to change
With 13 years’ experience, ZXM’s metrics-driven and adaptive approach improves success and builds an agile product management culture that pivots more effectively to disruptive change.
Our track record
Average time to pivot to change
4 weeks down from 220 days
Forecast cost savings
Up to $20M+
Time to deliver value
Daily
Psychological safety
Very high
Successful change needs organisational psychology
We are successful because we use organisational psychology to make your changes to delivery and operations have longer lasting impacts.
Create awareness
We help people see the "what's in it for me" factor to adapt easier to market and stakeholder change.
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, including SAFe®, Nexus, Scrum @ Scale, Scrum™, Kanban and Lean.
Product Transformation
While others are buffeted by market downturn, our clients are more resilient to disruptive change.
Lean-Portfolio Management
Set pragmatic goals, objectives and operate in cycles of adaptive planning with ZXM's LPM strategies.
Agile Operating Models
Improve your company'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.
Agile Training
SAFe®, Scrum, Kanban, Agile Mindset, and Management 3.0 to power your modern delivery capability.
Coaching
Grow modern leadership skills and embed new agile capabilities from executives to teams.
Real-world success stories
We’ve helped clients around the world.
Agile in Marketing
ZXM coach digital marketing company Fishbat to pivot faster with...
Improving time to delivery in a Shared Service environment
Using a kanban approach and focusing on key measures of...
Business transformation for the Australian Census
Creating an agile capability delivery for Census 2021 to improve...
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 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.
Writing Great User Stories
How do you write great User Stories?
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.
Lessons from a PST on Preparing for the PSPO III Exam – Spoiler Alert, I Failed the First Time
Here are my learnings and my tips for preparing for the PSPO PST Journey and PSPO III exam.
From Concept to Market: Using Value Stream Mapping to Accelerate Product Development
Understanding the value stream’s attributes and how the enterprise serves its customers, allows us to look at ways to optimise the operational value stream. This is why measuring flow metrics such as Ability to Innovate and Time to Market based on mapping the value stream are key.
3 flow metrics and 3 value metrics you can’t live without
What are flow and value metrics and why should you make the change from project management metrics ?
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? Thi
Facilitation Techniques – When to Use and Why
Facilitators can use many techniques, but this does guarantee that the outcome will be reached. Ultimately linking the facilitation pattern to the objective of the interaction, makes the event more effective and helps contribute to team success in achieving their goals.
Product Management – Why a Product Owner needs to go beyond Scrum
An effective Product Owner is a strategic agile product manager that ties the Product Vision into the daily work by having a product management entrepreneurial mindset.
Facilitation Principles for Agile Teams
People complain that agile has too many meetings. To be effective, agile events need to be focused, productive, collaborative with a clear purpose
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