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Evidence-Based Management Guide
Over the last 15 years, software development organizations have been superficially described as value-generators. In fact, the increasingly common cost-cutting practice of outsourcing development to external organizations supports an opposite view. To some extent, the adoption of agile has supported this perception gap.
Organizational agility is often thought of as the practices used by individual teams and the techniques used to coordinate work across those teams. In some cases, focus is on improving practices without fully considering why those practices are being used in the first place. For instance, Scrum Teams monitor success by delivering potentially shippable Increments of work, but do those Increments contribute to the value of the overall organization?
Without measuring value, the success of any agile initiative is based on nothing more than intuition and assumption. Scrum.org’s Evidence-Based Management for Software Organizations (EBMgtTM) approach measures value as evidence of organizational agility. This approach enables software organizations to make rational, fact-based decisions, elevating conversations from preferences and opinions to logic and insight.
Organizational agility is often thought of as the practices used by individual teams and the techniques used to coordinate work across those teams. In some cases, focus is on improving practices without fully considering why those practices are being used in the first place. For instance, Scrum Teams monitor success by delivering potentially shippable Increments of work, but do those Increments contribute to the value of the overall organization?
Without measuring value, the success of any agile initiative is based on nothing more than intuition and assumption. Scrum.org’s Evidence-Based Management for Software Organizations (EBMgtTM) approach measures value as evidence of organizational agility. This approach enables software organizations to make rational, fact-based decisions, elevating conversations from preferences and opinions to logic and insight.
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December 7, 2017
Concise guide to empiricist, metric-oriented management style, cover both short-term, easy to see (such as revenue/profit) and long-term measurements (think of balanced scorecard).
As expected from a 10-page guide, it explains the reasons why/how this management style brings benefits, show which measurements to monitor, but you have to come up with your own methods to gather those measurements, set the baseline, and how you would react to improve them.
As expected from a 10-page guide, it explains the reasons why/how this management style brings benefits, show which measurements to monitor, but you have to come up with your own methods to gather those measurements, set the baseline, and how you would react to improve them.
January 7, 2022
It's a good start, and maybe a good introduction to the idea if someone has never thought that evidence was a good thing to base your decisions on, but at 10 pages, it's missing what I think is probably the most important part: the examples / application section.
There's a big gap between being introduced to an idea, and really getting how to apply it. You bridge that gap (or at least I seem to) with many, many examples of the principles being applied so you can build an intuitive understanding of how to apply a new idea / skill to your problem.
There are examples here (5 of them), but they're rarely longer than a paragraph. I want a lot more, ideally with a walkthrough for several following behind a manager going through the application of this new concept so I could follow in their footsteps. Without that, it's hard for me to see what value this guide is really bringing - if you're new to the idea, you're either going to need another source of information that's more comprehensive, which will probably go over these basics again anyway, or you're (probably) going to struggle with application for a while as you fill in the gaps that a better guide could have helped you through.
There's a big gap between being introduced to an idea, and really getting how to apply it. You bridge that gap (or at least I seem to) with many, many examples of the principles being applied so you can build an intuitive understanding of how to apply a new idea / skill to your problem.
There are examples here (5 of them), but they're rarely longer than a paragraph. I want a lot more, ideally with a walkthrough for several following behind a manager going through the application of this new concept so I could follow in their footsteps. Without that, it's hard for me to see what value this guide is really bringing - if you're new to the idea, you're either going to need another source of information that's more comprehensive, which will probably go over these basics again anyway, or you're (probably) going to struggle with application for a while as you fill in the gaps that a better guide could have helped you through.
October 6, 2017
A great approach to value measurement for management in an Agile bassed company
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