The Estimation Trap in Software Delivery
Tracking estimation accuracy in software delivery leads to mistrust, fear, and distorted behaviours. Focus on customer value, flow, and outcomes, not …
Drive long-term success with Agile Strategy. Align vision, execution, and adaptability to deliver continuous value.

Agile Strategy is a comprehensive approach that aligns an organisation’s vision with its execution and adaptability, ensuring that teams can deliver value consistently and sustainably. It transcends individual practices or frameworks, focusing instead on the systemic integration of agile principles across the organisation. This strategy emphasises the importance of creating an environment where teams can respond to change, innovate continuously, and maintain a clear focus on customer needs.
By fostering a culture of collaboration and transparency, Agile Strategy enables organisations to break down silos and enhance cross-functional teamwork. It encourages the use of metrics and feedback loops to inform decision-making, allowing teams to adjust their approaches based on real-time data. This adaptability is crucial in today’s fast-paced market, where the ability to pivot quickly can determine success.
Moreover, Agile Strategy is not merely about implementing agile practices; it is about embedding agility into the organisational DNA. This long-term perspective ensures that agility is not a one-off initiative but a sustained capability that drives ongoing improvement and value delivery. By prioritising alignment between strategic goals and operational execution, organisations can navigate complexity and uncertainty more effectively, ultimately leading to enhanced customer satisfaction and business resilience.
Tracking estimation accuracy in software delivery leads to mistrust, fear, and distorted behaviours. Focus on customer value, flow, and outcomes, not …
Comprehensive guide to using OKRs for shared focus, measurable outcomes, and strategic learning, including roles, events, best practices, and common …
Change in organisations is a continuous, evolutionary process driven by experimentation and adaptation, not a one-time transformation or fixed end …
Learn how to spot fake Agile practices using six key questions from the US Department of Defense, and discover steps to assess and improve true Agile …
Most agile transformations fail by neglecting agency, empowering people and systems to adapt, making true agility possible through autonomy, evidence, …
Learn how to achieve organisational agility by tailoring change to your unique context, building a guiding coalition, and engaging all stakeholders in …
Learn how to successfully implement OKRs by aligning clear strategy, fostering transparency, empowering teams, focusing on outcomes, and establishing …
NKD Agility helped SLB unify 800+ engineering teams by consolidating DevOps systems, standardizing processes, and improving visibility, collaboration, …
A cross-border product team overcame misalignment and role confusion through immersive mentorship, boosting collaboration, engineering engagement, and …
Explores how Azure DevOps shifted from slow, two-year releases to rapid, continuous delivery, highlighting the benefits of fast feedback, agility, and …
The US Department of Defence now requires agile, iterative software development, ending mandatory waterfall methods and influencing global government …
Lead successful Agile Transformations. Shift mindsets, evolve processes, and enable true organisational agility.
Explains how product goals serve as intermediate strategic goals, guiding agile organisations through uncertainty using experimentation, outcomes, and …
Explores when to use a single Azure DevOps project versus multiple projects, detailing impacts on flow, visibility, governance, and team collaboration …
Explores how agile teams can achieve predictable software delivery through quality focus, effective release planning, and continuous improvement, …
Explores how visionary Product Owners at Microsoft drove Agile transformation, shortened feedback cycles, and reshaped product development culture and …
Common Goals are a first principle of effective delivery. They align strategy with execution, enabling every decision, every Sprint, and every line of …
Explains how to gather key metrics for evidence-based management in software organisations, focusing on value delivery, time to market, and ability to …
NKD Agility helped the Ghana Police Service drive organisational change using Scrum, enabling continuous improvement, transparency, and local …
Ensuring every team member understands and connects their daily work to the product vision and strategic goals is key to true Agile alignment, …
Scaling agile beyond teams to drive enterprise-wide transformation and innovation.
Cutting costs during recessions can harm long-term business success. Investing in people, agility, and continuous improvement builds resilience and …
Learn how Agile principles help businesses improve predictability by addressing challenges, optimising systems, aligning goals, and adapting to change …
Explains Scrum’s four key value areas, current value, unrealised value, ability to innovate, and time to market, for data-driven product and …
Understand and apply Agile Values and Principles based on first principles. Build a foundation for true agility and continuous value delivery
A specialized product operating model for organizations adopting agile methodologies. It integrates agile practices with product management principles …
Learn effective strategies for scaling agile across multiple teams, managing dependencies, avoiding common pitfalls, and maintaining agility as your …
Scaling agility beyond teams to drive organisational responsiveness and adaptability.
Explores how businesses can boost agility and innovation by adapting decision-making, avoiding bureaucracy, and fostering continuous learning in …
Explains why recessions are ideal for organisations to adopt agile, highlighting adaptability, rapid learning, and customer-focused growth in …
Explores how rigid, judgmental Agile practices stifle creativity and innovation, and advocates for principle-driven, adaptable approaches to foster …
A practical guide to Evidence-Based Management, showing how organisations use experiments, feedback, and key value areas to improve value delivery …
Embrace Beta Codex for decentralised, adaptive, and human-centric organisational design. Enable true agility beyond rigid hierarchies.
Active senior leadership engagement is essential for successful Agile transformation, enabling systemic change, faster adaptation, and …
Mentoring program for product managers and leaders to master Agile, product management, UX, and evidence-based decision-making, with Scrum.org …
Most companies struggle with agility due to rigid structures, outdated processes, and cultural barriers, not technical issues. True agility requires …
Explores Agile as a disciplined system of delivery, emphasizing engineering excellence, CI/CD, observability, and system design over mindset or …
Excessive handoffs in software development create delays, reduce quality, and harm team morale. Learn how eliminating handoffs boosts agility, flow, …
Explains why empowering teams to adapt their processes boosts agility, reduces waste, and fosters innovation, using real-world examples and practical …
Drive change with Agile Leadership. Foster adaptability, empower teams, and create a culture of continuous improvement.
Open Space Agile is an approach to organisational agility that applies the principles of Open Space Technology, a self-organising, agenda-free format …
Evidence-Based Management (EBM) is a strategy for improving an organisation’s ability to deliver value by making decisions based on evidence, not …
Explores why team autonomy in Scrum must be balanced with alignment to strategic goals, highlighting the role of clear objectives and leadership in …
Master Agile Planning to balance flexibility with predictability. Align teams, optimise delivery, and drive value continuously.
Explains why Agile is not about speed but about prioritising valuable work, adapting to feedback, and avoiding wasted effort to deliver products that …
Learn how to align teams, stakeholders, and processes for effective agile product management by fostering shared goals, clear communication, and …
Maximise product value with Agile Product Management. Align strategy, customer needs, and continuous delivery.
Explains how involving everyone in Professional Scrum training fosters organisational agility, breaks down silos, and empowers teams to drive …
Explores how greed in Agile leads to overwork and reduced value, offering strategies for value-driven delivery, balanced sprints, team trust, and …
Coordinate multiple teams to deliver complex products while preserving agility. Focus on alignment, flow, and value delivery across the enterprise …
Explains why frameworks alone can't shift team culture, emphasizing clear vision, leadership commitment, and empowering teams to drive meaningful …
Explores the limitations of traditional budgeting and explains how flexible, value-driven approaches like Beyond Budgeting can improve agility, …
Explains why true agility requires end-to-end automation and short feedback loops, not just Agile teams, to maximise value and efficiency for …
Explores why teams ignore clear signals from Agile and Scrum, highlighting how culture and fear hinder continuous improvement and effective …
Explores how fear hinders true agility in teams, emphasising the need to foster courage and trust for effective Agile, Scrum, and DevOps practices and …
Explores how chaos arises in agile transformations due to unclear vision and poor communication, and offers strategies for restoring alignment, …
Explains why delivering working software to users every iteration is vital in Agile, highlighting feedback, value, and practical steps for continuous …
Explores why true organisational agility depends on empowering teams with agency, not just adopting frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, or DevOps, to …
Explains how empowering Agile teams to act on user feedback enables rapid requirement changes, improves product relevance, and overcomes barriers like …
Explores how agile leadership and evidence-based management training help managers develop servant leadership skills, delegate effectively, and make …
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Emerson Process Management

Jack Links

Brandes Investment Partners L.P.

Lockheed Martin

Philips

SuperControl

Healthgrades

Genus Breeding Ltd

Deliotte

Hubtel Ghana

Flowmaster (a Mentor Graphics Company)

Kongsberg Maritime
NIT A/S

Lean SA

Freadom

Slicedbread

Milliman

MacDonald Humfrey (Automation) Ltd.

Washington Department of Enterprise Services

New Hampshire Supreme Court

Ghana Police Service

Nottingham County Council

Department of Work and Pensions (UK)

Washington Department of Transport

Freadom

Microsoft

Big Data for Humans

Emerson Process Management

Epic Games
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