Value Delivery: Aligning Iterative Releases with Customer Outcomes

Stop firefighting late-stage bugs—discover how shifting left saves time, money, and reputation by building quality in from the start. Learn the …

Explores the financial, productivity, and reputational impacts of poor-quality code, and offers practical steps to turn code quality into a …

Explores how Azure DevOps shifted from slow, two-year releases to rapid, continuous delivery, highlighting the benefits of fast feedback, agility, and …

Explores how increasing deployment frequency, stable environments, and fast feedback loops improve software delivery, reduce time to market, and align …

Excessive handoffs in software development create delays, reduce quality, and harm team morale. Learn how eliminating handoffs boosts agility, flow, …

Covers key concepts of Sprint Reviews, interactive workshop delivery using Teams and Mural, technical challenges faced, participant feedback, and …

Releases feel risky when teams lack a clear Definition of Done. Learn how a strong DoD ensures stress-free, reliable software delivery with built-in …

Explains how DevOps and Agile work together to enable continuous delivery, rapid feedback, and customer value in software development and product …

Learn how to achieve organisational agility by tailoring change to your unique context, building a guiding coalition, and engaging all stakeholders in …

Explains why Story Points are subjective and unsuitable for comparing teams, and highlights objective metrics like throughput and value for measuring …

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 …

Explores how frequent code deployments improve code quality, reduce technical debt, enable faster feedback, and support iterative, user-focused …

Explores a developer’s transition to DevOps, highlighting key challenges: cultural change, toolchain automation, and continuous learning for effective …

Explains how evidence-based management uses reliable metrics and KPIs at team and organisational levels to drive better decisions, value delivery, and …

Failing to deliver a usable product each agile iteration leads to lost trust, technical debt, poor adaptability, misaligned expectations, low morale, …

Explores how empowering Agile teams to adapt their processes boosts flexibility, continuous improvement, collaboration, and maximises value and return …

Explains how empirical Agile models improve project outcomes by increasing visibility, enabling change, reducing risk, and delivering value …

Continuous Improvement is the ongoing practice of relentless reflection and adaptation, driven by empirical evidence, aimed at consistently enhancing …

Explains how automation in continuous delivery improves software reliability, reduces risk, and enables faster, safer deployments through consistent, …

Learn how Evidence-Based Management uses data to guide Agile teams, improve decision-making, track value, and boost innovation, customer satisfaction, …

Delivering usable, working products frequently is key to reducing risk in Agile. Focus on feedback, automation, and lean practices over excessive …

Explains how to gather key metrics for evidence-based management in software organisations, focusing on value delivery, time to market, and ability to …

Using experimentation and validated learning to drive product decisions.

Explores how hypothesis-driven engineering helps teams maximise product value by testing ideas, measuring outcomes, and learning from failure to guide …

Techniques and strategies for improving operational efficiency and delivery.

Explains how feature flags enable safe, incremental software releases, support continuous delivery, and use user feedback to improve features before …

Explores how greed in Agile leads to overwork and reduced value, offering strategies for value-driven delivery, balanced sprints, team trust, and …

Enhancing teamwork, communication, and shared ownership for high performance.

Multitasking reduces team productivity. Learn how focusing on finishing tasks, limiting work in progress, and value-based prioritisation boosts …

Validating product value requires releasing features to real users in production, gathering feedback, and measuring usage, satisfaction, and business …

Explores how evidence-based management uses data-driven practices to improve organisational agility, value delivery, and decision-making in both …

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 …

Testing product ideas with real users to ensure market fit and customer value.

Explains the risks of using say-do metrics in Agile, highlighting how they encourage vanity metrics, harm psychological safety, and shift focus from …

Outlines core Agile values and principles for software development, emphasising collaboration, adaptability, working software, customer focus, and …

Explores how effective product ownership and lean delivery drive alignment, collaboration, adaptability, and continuous improvement in modern product …

Explores how Visual Studio 2012 supports continuous quality enablement, automated testing, and rapid delivery in modern software development for …

Enable Business Agility to rapidly adapt, innovate, and deliver value in an ever-changing market.

Explains how product goals serve as intermediate strategic goals, guiding agile organisations through uncertainty using experimentation, outcomes, and …

Explains why story points and velocity can mislead Agile teams, and recommends focusing on throughput, cycle time, and customer value for effective …

Company as a Product (CaaP) is an organisational strategy that treats the entire company as a continuously evolving product, rather than a static …

Learn how to track, manage, and optimise product development costs by empowering teams with financial awareness, key metrics, and continuous …

Explains why recessions are ideal for organisations to adopt agile, highlighting adaptability, rapid learning, and customer-focused growth in …

Explains how to maintain clear, measurable quality standards with the Definition of Done, while avoiding confusion with acceptance criteria and …

Explains why product ownership and product management are deeply connected in Scrum, clarifying their roles, focus on value delivery, and the need for …

Explains how using a flat backlog structure—rather than a hierarchy—improves agility, prioritisation, and value delivery in Scrum and Kanban teams.

Explores how routine Agile questions can hinder team progress, stressing the importance of focusing on value delivery, goal alignment, and managing …

Explores how Agile’s true value lies in delivering outcomes and adapting to change, not just following rituals or procedures, and highlights the need …

A clear summary of Scrum’s framework, roles, events, artefacts, and values, explaining how teams use Scrum to deliver value and adapt to complex …

Explains how close collaboration between product management and product development in agile teams drives market value, innovation, and continuous …

Identifying customer needs and defining valuable product features.

Learn how to define, craft, and achieve effective Sprint Goals in Scrum, using frameworks like SMART and OKR to align teams, deliver value, and …

Learn how to turn scope creep into an advantage by adopting Agile methods, focusing on value delivery, and adapting to changing requirements in …

Explains the Nexus framework for scaling Scrum with multiple teams, detailing roles, events, and artefacts to coordinate product delivery and manage …

Explains how a well-ordered, refined Product Backlog guides Agile teams, supports goal alignment, and ensures value-driven product development through …

Evidence-based management uses data-driven decisions to help organisations achieve business outcomes, adapt to market changes, and maximise value …

Explains how Product Owners can replace traditional project management with vision, value, and validation to guide teams, deliver real value, and …

Comprehensive reference outlining Kanban principles, practices, and metrics for optimising workflow, value delivery, and continuous improvement in …

Explains how Scrum Teams can use Kanban practices to optimise workflow, track flow metrics, and enhance transparency, efficiency, and continuous …

Learn how product owners use Evidence-Based Management (EBM) to make data-driven decisions, track key value metrics, and maximise product value and …