Current Value
Current Value is one of the four key value areas of Evidence‑Based Management. Rather than being a single measure, it comprises a group of indicators …
Evidence-Based Management (EBM) is a strategy for improving an organisation’s ability to deliver value by making decisions based on evidence, not opinion. It enables data-informed investment in agility, innovation, and outcomes rather than output.
Too many organisations talk about being agile, but they’re still flying blind. Evidence-Based Management (EBM) is a strategy to fix that. It’s not a framework, a methodology, or a tool. It’s a way to stop pretending we’re improving and start proving it.
EBM gives us a structure for inspecting how well we’re delivering value and where to invest next. It’s built around four key areas:
These aren’t vanity metrics. They’re signals that help leaders make real decisions about where to focus, where to invest, and what to stop doing. You don’t need a prescription. You need clarity, direction, and feedback.
EBM enables an empirical approach to strategic improvement. It’s not about tracking everything. It’s about measuring the right things, at the right time, to drive better outcomes. If you’re not using data to improve how you deliver value, then you’re not doing agility. You’re doing theatre.
If you want to move beyond output metrics and start managing for outcomes, EBM gives you the scaffolding to do that—without pretending there’s a silver bullet. It’s messy. It’s iterative. But it works.
Current Value is one of the four key value areas of Evidence‑Based Management. Rather than being a single measure, it comprises a group of indicators …
Unrealized Value is one of the four key value areas of Evidence‑Based Management and represents a group of measures focused on the potential value …
Continuous delivery is achievable for any software, regardless of complexity. Success depends on investment in automation, quality, and process …
Explains Scrum’s four key value areas—current value, unrealised value, ability to innovate, and time to market—for data-driven product and …
Explains how evidence-based management uses reliable metrics and KPIs at team and organisational levels to drive better decisions, value delivery, and …
Learn how Evidence-Based Management uses data to guide Agile teams, improve decision-making, track value, and boost innovation, customer satisfaction, …
Explains how to gather key metrics for evidence-based management in software organisations, focusing on value delivery, time to market, and ability to …
A practical guide to Evidence-Based Management, showing how organisations use experiments, feedback, and key value areas to improve value delivery …
Time to Market is one of the four key value areas of Evidence‑Based Management that focuses on organizational capability. It is not a single measure …
Explores how evidence-based management uses data-driven practices to improve organisational agility, value delivery, and decision-making in both …
Explains how to use data in Agile management to guide decisions and behaviours, focusing on informed outcomes without letting metrics control teams or …
Explains how evidence-based management helps Agile teams use data and key metrics to measure progress, make informed decisions, and drive continuous …
Evidence-based management uses data-driven decisions to help organisations achieve business outcomes, adapt to market changes, and maximise value …
Learn how product owners use Evidence-Based Management (EBM) to make data-driven decisions, track key value metrics, and maximise product value and …
Explains how evidence-based management uses data-driven decisions and tailored metrics to boost business value, leadership effectiveness, and …
Learn how Evidence-Based Management helps organisations measure delivered value using key metrics like customer satisfaction, employee engagement, and …
Most features don’t deliver value. Short feedback loops and real user input help teams avoid wasted effort by ensuring they build what users actually …
Learn how to assess and improve your organisation’s innovation capability using evidence-based management and key metrics like technical debt, …
Learn how evidence-based metrics drive organisational success, avoid negative behaviours, and enable transparent, data-driven decisions for leaders …
Explains how Agile teams can measure and improve Time to Market using key metrics like lead time, cycle time, and time to fix to deliver value to …
Explains why validating product features is essential, highlighting hypothesis-driven development, data collection, and evidence-based decisions to …
Discover how evidence-based management empowers Agile leaders to make data-driven decisions, foster continuous improvement, and boost team performance …
Explains how product goals serve as intermediate strategic goals, guiding agile organisations through uncertainty using experimentation, outcomes, and …
Learn how evidence-based management uses clear outcomes and targeted metrics to improve project success, enabling informed decisions and continuous …
Explains how traditional management relies on authority and intuition, while evidence-based management uses data, analysis, and meaningful metrics for …
Learn how evidence-based management uses data and purposeful metrics to inform decisions, shape behaviours, and drive continuous improvement in …
Learn how to identify and measure unrealised value in your product using Evidence-Based Management, key metrics, and actionable steps to improve …
Measuring the time from work initiation to customer delivery, helping teams monitor workflow efficiency and improve value delivery.
Ability to Innovate is one of the four key value areas of Evidence‑Based Management that gauges organizational capability in terms of innovation. It …
Learn key strategies for building business resilience and continuity, including observability, system decoupling, routine deployments, team …
Tracking the time taken to complete a unit of work from start to finish.
Most agile transformations fail by neglecting agency—empowering people and systems to adapt—making true agility possible through autonomy, evidence, …
Deliver what matters. Shape systems and decisions around customer outcomes, not internal convenience.
Validating product value requires releasing features to real users in production, gathering feedback, and measuring usage, satisfaction, and business …
Explains the risks of using say-do metrics in Agile, highlighting how they encourage vanity metrics, harm psychological safety, and shift focus from …
Explains how identifying and validating unrealised value, understanding user needs, and rapid feedback loops can enhance product development and …
Explores how clear vision, goals, and evidence-based management empower teams, improve alignment, and foster autonomy, engagement, and effective …
Learn about Scrum.org’s new PAL-EBM training, which helps leaders use evidence-based management and custom metrics to align teams with organisational …
Applying structured, evidence-based approaches to make informed business choices.
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