OKRs are an effective way to set executive and enterprise goals. Here’s how you stop making them about activity and task reporting and more about impact and outcomes with EBM – Evidence Based Management
Learn about the only agile assessment and coaching tool based on data analytics that can predict how agile you really are.
Learn about the only agile assessment and coaching tool based on data analytics that can predict how agile you really are.
Every executive knows that access to credible, reliable and independent data is the key to making sound decisions. Yet, while many organisations turn to intuition, gut instinct, self-reporting, and vanity metrics when it comes to agile capability maturity, now there’s a way to have an objective picture.
Traditional Change Management’s linear approach exacerbates the steepness of the change curve and leads to a “Productivity Dip” as it attempts to manage risk through upfront planning. Agile Change Management addresses this dip by iterative customer feedback to focus efforts on the most important activities, determined by customer value and stakeholder impact and outcomes
What is an agile culture? How do you recognise an agile enterprise – one that’s gone through a true digital transformation? Some would point to post-it notes, others would highlight the dedicated team spaces decorated in their team symbols. Others would point to the posters around the office, heralding innovation. Unfortunately, these won’t make you agile.
To be effective, agile coaches require deep, applied expertise and experience across multiple organisations, multiple projects and industries. As the organsiation scales, the Agile Coaching Development Pathway shows the focus of the role as it scales to more responsibilities beyond being a coach of a single team and provides guidance on what knowledge and experience is required to be an Enterprise Coach.
Sharing patterns and practices and driving consistency across the organisation is key to building an organsiationational capability however eventually when we as external consultanst leave, there is always the risk that the organisation will just spring back to their old ways of working. So we set up ZXM Agile Academy to build enduring internal capability.
OKRs have been an established way to set objectives however the associated activities tend to focus on outputs and not outcomes and impacts. To measure Program Agility, we used Evidence Based Management (EBM) as a framework for OKRs to help shift metrics towards value of the investment to help them make strategic investment decision based on evidence to improve business outcomes.
How to mitigate Integration issues? – In the short term, transparency and communication is key. In the longer-term, we needed a more empowering state so we looked at how to to use agile practices to build capability and evolving environment practices to move to automation and continous integration.
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