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.
What are flow and value metrics and why should you make the change from project management metrics ?
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.
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.
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.
People complain that agile has too many meetings. To be effective, agile events need to be focused, productive, collaborative with a clear purpose
Focusing on products and how value flows to the customer will help ultimately ensure that your transformation program is more likely to succeed.
What metrics do you need to understand whether you’re going to achieve enterprise outcomes for agile transformations
You have reports to deliver to executive. Delivery, risk, and cost is foremost on their mind. What kind of reports on your agile capability and delivery, based on objective agile project management metrics, are going to provide you with the best transparency of what’s really going on?
Agile project management tends to focus on velocity as a measure of agility. The real things that help leaders measure their agile capability are far more interesting.
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