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.
Should you have business as Product Owners? Is the Release Train Engineer a Delivery Manager? Where do Project Managers go? Aren’t Epic Owners the executive? Everyone gets these things wrong. Find out how to avoid SAFe’s implementation traps.
Are you still asking the ‘three questions’. It’s time you learned some better patterns to inspect your progress toward the team’s Sprint Goal.
What top behaviours drive organisations to higher performance, lower costs, and reduced delivery risk? To understand agile delivery metrics, ZXM took a science-based approach to the statistical analysis of its Agile IQ® data on delivery effectiveness, cost reduction, risk and how it relates to agile capability maturity.
Four key behaviours increase business agility. But be warned, you need to know how to encourage and reward them if you want agile’s outcomes of faster to market and improved ability to pivot.
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.
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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