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In this vlog, PST Joshua Partogi breaks down the metrics to measure the Scrum team's effectiveness and what effective means in Scrum.

Viele agile Teams sind in der Lage, regelmäßig Software zu liefern. Sie stoßen jedoch an Grenzen, wenn es um die Festlegung von Zielen, die Bestimmung von Prioritäten und die Messung von Fortschritten innerhalb der Organisation geht. 

Es war Weihnachten 2011. Wie in jedem Jahr verbrachten die Menschen die Feiertage im Kreis ihrer Familie und ihrer Liebsten und hielten diese Momente auf Fotos fest.

TL-TR La réussite de l’entreprise est directement liée la satisfaction des utilisateurs aujourd’hui mais aussi dans la durée.

Aligning Scrum Team Topology to Strategy with OKRs and Product Goals

OKRs are a great framework for setting goals. Setting high quality goals, goal clarity, and self-management, positively affect team performance [3].

I am often asked how to create better goals. This comes up at the team level, and it also comes up for the wider organization. When we are dealing with complexity, there is no one right way, no perfect template, and no best practice.

Professional Agile Leadership – Evidence-Based Management (PAL-EBM) is the newest course in the Scrum.org portfolio. To prepare the launch and our trainer community for this one-day workshop, we ran several train-the-trainer events. I enjoyed participating in one of those, and I am glad to share my experience with you.

When I’m describing the Key Value Areas (KVAs) of Evidence-Based Management, I find Time to Market is often misunderstood to mean “just go faster.” We need to scrub off the scent of “we know what we need to do, we just need to do it faster.” In complexity, goals and execution have a lot of unknowns, and things emerge as we do the work. So, we will be unsuccessful if we choose to follow a plan, even if we do it faster.

We've all had challenges with various stakeholders coming to us with a whole bunch of different information and wanting a whole bunch of different things. Who do I listen to? What’s most important?

Does an organization live in the present or in the past? The answer seems obvious: of course in the present! But what if organizations are living in the past? How that night be the case and what can bring the organization back to the present? Let's dive deeper into this questions.

When (Patricia Kong - Product Owner of Enterprise Solutions at Scrum.org) taught me how to combine the chocolatey-goodness of Evidence Based Management with the hazelnutty-goodness of Hypothesis Driven Delivery, I was ecstatic! "AHA!", I says to myself.

I need your advice to solve a personal problem...

Let's explore lessons from three of my success stories and two failures so you don't make the mistakes I made.

Gathering the metrics for Evidence-based Management in software organisations can be a strenuous task and I have a number of customers that are fretting on what to collect and from where.

The most recent evolution of the Evidence-Based Management Guide (EBM) introduced three kinds of goals...

For organizations in the midst of an agile transformation, the question “how do we know if/when we’re agile?” is pressing.

Professional Scrum Trainer, Sahin Guvenilir, discusses measuring value, improving outcomes, and using the best available evidence to decide the next steps against a Strategic Goal.

Technical debt seems like a topic that resides completely in the domain of a Development Team. They are responsible for delivering a potentially releasable Increment after all. But might there be more to it for a Product Owner?

Just to set the scene, I haven’t figured this out yet. I can tell you my story, in all its ugliness. It’s based on a real story, but it’s changed significantly from reality to protect the innocent. I hope you still find my account useful.

For executives and for change agents who deal with executives in large contexts ...

An executive is a person who owns the strategy or sets the direction of travel or sets justifications for spending. This exec could be the Product Owner for a chunk of the organization.

A few weeks ago I headed out to the Scrum.org offices in Boston to participate in training to hone my skills as an Evidence-based Management Consultant.