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Product Development

Foster innovation and enhance product value through iterative learning, customer insights, and strategic alignment for optimal outcomes.

Deliver valuable, usable products through iterative learning, customer feedback, and continuous improvement. Align strategy, discovery, and delivery to maximise outcomes and reduce risk.

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Overview

Product Development is the systematic process of delivering valuable and usable products through iterative learning, customer feedback, and continuous improvement. It encompasses the alignment of strategy, discovery, and delivery to maximise outcomes while minimising risk. This concept is crucial as it enables teams to respond effectively to changing market demands and customer needs, fostering an environment where innovation can thrive.

By integrating practices from Agile, Lean, and DevOps, Product Development promotes a culture of collaboration and transparency, allowing cross-functional teams to work cohesively towards shared goals. It emphasises the importance of understanding customer feedback loops, which inform product iterations and enhancements, ensuring that the end product not only meets but exceeds user expectations.

The long-term, systemic nature of Product Development means that it is not merely about delivering a product but about creating a sustainable framework for ongoing value delivery. This approach encourages teams to embrace experimentation and learning, leading to improved efficiency and effectiveness in product delivery. By focusing on continuous improvement and adaptability, organisations can cultivate resilience and maintain a competitive edge in an ever-evolving landscape. The emphasis on value delivery ensures that every effort contributes meaningfully to the organisation’s strategic objectives, reinforcing the importance of a well-defined Product Development process in achieving long-term success.

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Without Delivery, There Is No Value

Value in software is only realised through delivery. Frequent releases validate assumptions, reduce risk, and enable rapid feedback, adaptation, and continuous improvement.
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Definition of Done

Getting Started with the Definition of Done (DoD). Every team should define what is required, what criteria must be met, for a product increment to be considered releasable.
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Your Evolving Definition of Done

Explains how the Definition of Done evolves in Scrum, aligning team practices with organisational standards to ensure consistent quality, compliance, and business value delivery.
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Delivery is the only Measure of Progress in Scrum

Scrum teams must deliver working software to real users every Sprint; true progress is measured by delivery to production, not just by completing internal work.
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Why Measuring Individual Cycle Time is Killing Your Flow (And What to Do Instead)

Measuring individual cycle time in Kanban misleads teams, hides real bottlenecks, and harms flow. Focus on system-wide metrics like PCE, WIP, and throughput instead.
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Lean Product Development

Minimising waste while maximising learning in product creation.
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Testing in Production Maximises Quality and Value

Explains how audience-based deployment and testing in production enable faster feedback, safer rollouts, and higher software quality by targeting real users and reducing risk.
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Stop Promoting Branches

Explains why promoting code through multiple branches slows delivery, increases risk, and suggests GitHub Flow or Release Flow as simpler, safer alternatives for deployment.
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Definition of Done - Objective vs Subjective

Explains the difference between subjective goals and the objective Definition of Done in Scrum, highlighting how clear, measurable criteria ensure consistent product quality.
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The Role of Agency in Scrum: Why Self-Management Without Agency is a Lie

Explains why true Scrum requires real team agency, not just self-management in name, and how lacking agency leads to ineffective, ritualistic Agile practices.
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Agile Product Operating Model

Transform your organisation with the Agile Product Operating Model, blending agile practices and product management to deliver consistent, customer-focused value.
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Minimum Viable Product

Building the Minimum Viable Product to test ideas and validate market assumptions quickly.
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Why Handoffs Are Killing Your Agility

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

Coordinate multiple teams to deliver complex products while preserving agility. Focus on alignment, flow, and value delivery across the enterprise using lean principles and adaptive product structures.
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Agile Frameworks

Explore and compare Agile frameworks. Understand their principles, applications, and impact on organisational agility and value delivery.
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The Scrum Master is accountable for Delivery

Explains how the Scrum Master is accountable for enabling effective product delivery, fostering team success, and ensuring each sprint produces a usable, valuable increment.
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Evidence Based Management

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.
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Continuous Delivery

Continuous Delivery is the practice of frequently delivering small increments of valuable product directly to real users, enabling rapid feedback, validation, and continuous improvement from the very first iteration.
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Product Delivery

The process of delivering usable working software products to customers, including planning, development, testing, and deployment.
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Value Stream Mapping

Visualising workflows to identify inefficiencies and optimise value delivery.
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    Release planning and predictable delivery

    Explores how agile teams can achieve predictable software delivery through quality focus, effective release planning, and continuous improvement, despite inherent uncertainty.
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    Behaviour Driven Development

    Align development with business goals using Behaviour Driven Development (BDD). Improve collaboration and create clear, testable requirements.
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      The Importance of Delivering Working Software Every Iteration

      Explains why delivering working software to users every iteration is vital in Agile, highlighting feedback, value, and practical steps for continuous improvement and success.
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      The Evidence-Based Management Guide: Improving Value Delivery under Conditions of Uncertainty

      Discover more about “The Evidence-Based Management Guide and how it can help you in your Agile journey!
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      The fallacy of the rejected backlog item

      Explains why rejecting individual backlog items at Sprint Review is a misconception, highlighting Scrum’s focus on learning, collaboration, and delivering a complete increment.
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      DOD has made it illegal to do waterfall

      The US Department of Defence now requires agile, iterative software development, ending mandatory waterfall methods and influencing global government IT practices.
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      The Evidence-Based Management Guide Improving Value Delivery under Conditions of Uncertainty

      Discover more about The Evidence-Based Management Guide
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      Working Software

      Working software is the tangible, functional output produced during a Sprint, representing a concrete artifact that delivers value to customers.
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      How Do You Know How Long It Takes to Deliver Value?

      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 customers faster.
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      The Importance of Validation in Product Development: A Strategic Approach

      Explains why validating product features is essential, highlighting hypothesis-driven development, data collection, and evidence-based decisions to maximise long-term product value.
      Guides

      Nexus Guide

      Discover more about Nexus Guide and how it can help you in your Agile journey!
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      Transform Your Product Development: Unleash the Power of Experimentation and Collaboration

      Learn practical strategies to boost product development by using experimentation, agile methods, and collaboration to increase user value, reduce waste, and improve ROI.
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      Product Ownership vs. Product Management: Busting the Myth That They're Separate Roles

      Explains why product ownership and product management are deeply connected in Scrum, clarifying their roles, focus on value delivery, and the need for agile adaptation.
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      Empowering Agile Teams: The Critical Role of User Feedback in Requirement Changes

      Explains how empowering Agile teams to act on user feedback enables rapid requirement changes, improves product relevance, and overcomes barriers like rigid contracts.
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      Are Your Teams Empowered to Change Requirements Based on User Feedback? If Not, You’re Probably Not Very Agile

      Empowering teams to adapt requirements based on user feedback is key to true agility. Learn why backlog updates and team engagement drive better, user-focused products.
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      The Evolution of Product Management in the Agile Era

      Explores how Agile transformed product management by enabling shorter release cycles, faster feedback, continuous delivery, and a stronger focus on built-in quality.
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      Unlocking Effective Product Development: How a Hypothesis-Driven Approach Transforms User Experience

      Explains how a hypothesis-driven approach, small experiments, and cross-team collaboration improve product development, user experience, and continuous delivery outcomes.
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      Forecasting

      Enhance forecasting in Agile and Scrum. Use empirical data to predict delivery timelines, manage risk, and optimise value delivery.
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      Unlocking Product Value: Why Real User Feedback is Your Best Asset

      Real user feedback is essential in product development to validate assumptions, guide improvements, and ensure your product delivers real value to its target audience.
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      Understanding Product Discovery: Why It Matters More Than Ever

      Explains Product Discovery in product development, its role in setting strategy, uncovering opportunities, and aligning teams to build valuable, user-focused products.
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      Mastering Product Development: From Assumptions to Hypotheses

      Learn to identify, prioritise, and test assumptions in product development by turning them into hypotheses, managing experimentation costs, and making data-driven decisions.
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      Unlocking the Power of Assumptions in Product Development: Why the PPDV Course is a Game-Changer

      Learn to identify, challenge, and validate assumptions in product development, avoid the “Feature Factory” trap, and build products that truly meet user needs.
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      Turning User Feedback into Actionable Work: A Guide to Maximizing Product Value

      Learn how to quickly turn user feedback into actionable work items in Agile teams, improving product value through fast feedback loops, prioritisation, and continuous improvement.
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      Mastering Evidence-Based Management (EBM) for Product Owners: Maximizing Value Delivery

      Learn how product owners use Evidence-Based Management (EBM) to make data-driven decisions, track key value metrics, and maximise product value and team engagement.
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      How to Discover Unrealized Value in Your Product

      Learn how to identify and measure unrealised value in your product using Evidence-Based Management, key metrics, and actionable steps to improve customer satisfaction and growth.
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      Mastering Product Backlog Management: Essential Skills for Product Owners

      Learn the core skills and best practices for effective product backlog management, including risk, value, sizing, learning, and refinement to maximise product delivery.
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      Unlocking Success: The Essential Role of Product Ownership in Lean Product Delivery

      Explores how effective product ownership and lean delivery drive alignment, collaboration, adaptability, and continuous improvement in modern product development teams.
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      Common Goals

      Common Goals are a first principle of effective delivery. They align strategy with execution, enabling every decision, every Sprint, and every line of code to serve a shared purpose. Without them, you don’t have a system—you have disconnected activity.
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      Acceptance Test Driven Development

      Drive high-quality software development with Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD). Define clear, testable acceptance criteria before implementation to ensure alignment with business needs.
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        Time to Market

        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 but a group of metrics that evaluate the speed at which ideas are transformed into deliverable products or features. This collection of measures may include lead time, cycle time, and overall development duration—providing a comprehensive view of how quickly value reaches the customer.
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        Agnostic Agile

        Agnostic Agile is a movement that promotes ethical, context-driven agility by prioritising principles over rigid frameworks. Championed by thought leaders like Arie van Bennekum, a Dutch signatory of the Agile Manifesto, it encourages practitioners to adapt methods pragmatically based on need rather than ideology. Drawing from diverse approaches such as Scrum, Kanban, Lean, and XP, Agnostic Agile emphasises professionalism, critical thinking, and value delivery over brand loyalty or prescriptive practice.
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        Estimation

        Master estimation in Agile and Scrum. Improve forecasting, manage uncertainty, and align expectations using empirical data and collaborative techniques.
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        There is no place like production

        Validating product value requires releasing features to real users in production, gathering feedback, and measuring usage, satisfaction, and business impact for improvement.
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        Portfolio Management

        Align strategy with execution through Portfolio Management. Prioritise investments, optimise value streams, and drive organisational agility.
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        The Power of Technical Excellence in Agile Development

        Explores how technical excellence in Agile development reduces risk, prevents technical debt, and boosts product quality and delivery speed through strong engineering standards.
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        Stop Hiding Behind Complexity and Start Delivering Continuously

        Continuous delivery is achievable for any software, regardless of complexity. Success depends on investment in automation, quality, and process improvement—not technical barriers.
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        Empowering Teams for Success: The Key to Thriving Product Development

        Explores how empowering and engaging diverse software teams boosts motivation, collaboration, and product quality through trust, feedback, skills development, and shared goals.
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        Transforming Agility: How Azure DevOps Went from Two-Year Releases to 880,000 Deployments

        Explores how Azure DevOps shifted from slow, two-year releases to rapid, continuous delivery, highlighting the benefits of fast feedback, agility, and frequent deployments.
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        Maximising Deployment Frequency: The Key to Faster Time to Market and Business Success

        Explores how increasing deployment frequency, stable environments, and fast feedback loops improve software delivery, reduce time to market, and align with business goals.
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        You are doing it wrong if you are not using test first

        Explains how adopting test-first practices in software development improves quality, reduces bugs, and enables confident continuous delivery by validating requirements early.
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        How important is DevOps in continuous delivery of value to customers?

        Explains how DevOps and Agile work together to enable continuous delivery, rapid feedback, and customer value in software development and product delivery.
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        Transform Your Scrum Team in 90 Days: Strategies for Continuous Delivery and Empowerment

        Learn practical steps to help Scrum teams achieve continuous delivery, clarify business value, integrate feedback, and build empowerment within 90 days for lasting agility.
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        Technical Excellence

        Technical Excellence encompasses engineering practices and methodologies that enhance agility, improve code quality, and enable continuous delivery.
        Videos

        Is Your Project Ecosystem Truly Agile?

        Explains why true agility requires end-to-end automation and short feedback loops, not just Agile teams, to maximise value and efficiency for stakeholders in project delivery.
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        Storms of Neglect The Perils of Not Delivering Usable Products in Agile Iterations

        Failing to deliver a usable product each agile iteration leads to lost trust, technical debt, poor adaptability, misaligned expectations, low morale, and lack of feedback.
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        Unlocking Code Quality: The Transformative Power of Frequent Deployments

        Explores how frequent code deployments improve code quality, reduce technical debt, enable faster feedback, and support iterative, user-focused software development.
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        Getting started with a Definition of Done (DoD)

        Explains how to create, apply, and improve a Definition of Done (DoD) in Scrum to ensure software quality, transparency, and consistent delivery of working increments.
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        Empowering Teams to Tailor Their Processes: A Path to True Agility

        Explains why empowering teams to adapt their processes boosts agility, reduces waste, and fosters innovation, using real-world examples and practical steps for organisations.
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        You can't stop the signal! But you can ignore it!

        Explores why teams ignore clear signals from Agile and Scrum, highlighting how culture and fear hinder continuous improvement and effective problem-solving in organisations.
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        Pragmatism crushes Dogma in the wild

        Explores how practical use of Scrum fosters adaptability and resilience in teams, highlighting the value of flexibility over rigid rules in complex product development.
        Videos

        Special Sprints: Agile Banditry or Risk Management?

        Explores why special sprints like Sprint Zero or hardening sprints undermine Agile by delaying work, increasing risk, and reducing continuous delivery of usable products.
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        Mastering Agile: 3 Essential Strategies to Boost Your Team's Sprint Success

        Learn three key Agile strategies: define clear completion criteria, avoid overcommitting in Sprints, and prioritise backlog refinement for better team productivity.
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        Deciphering the Enigma of Story Points Across Teams

        Explains why Story Points are subjective and unsuitable for comparing teams, and highlights objective metrics like throughput and value for measuring and improving team performance.
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        If your backlog is not refined then you are doing it wrong

        Explains why regular backlog refinement is essential in Scrum, how to make backlog items ready for Sprint Planning, and ways to measure effective refinement.
        Videos

        Empowering Teams to Maximize Value and Return on Investment

        Explores how empowering Agile teams to adapt their processes boosts flexibility, continuous improvement, collaboration, and maximises value and return on investment.
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        Agile is Not New: A Journey Back to the Basics

        Explores Agile’s historical roots, the loss of human connection in business, the impact of competence gaps, and why a return to core Agile principles is needed today.
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        How to Measure Your Organization's Ability to Improve Value Through Innovation

        Learn how to assess and improve your organisation’s innovation capability using evidence-based management and key metrics like technical debt, innovation rate, and complexity.
        Videos

        The Overlooked Virtue of Agility: Diligence

        Explores why diligence—consistent attention to quality and standards—is vital in Agile teams, how it’s often overlooked, and practical steps to foster it for lasting success.
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        Unlocking Success in Agile: Why Your Definition of Done is Essential for Quality Delivery

        Explains why a clear Definition of Done is vital in Agile and Scrum for quality delivery, transparency, and risk mitigation, with tips for team alignment and improvement.
        Videos

        Mastering Evidence-Based Management for Agile Success

        Learn how Evidence-Based Management uses data to guide Agile teams, improve decision-making, track value, and boost innovation, customer satisfaction, and time to market.
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        Detecting Agile BS: Lessons from the Department of Defense

        Explores why true organisational agility needs more than Agile development, highlighting the importance of continuous delivery, quality, and removing bureaucratic barriers.
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        How Usable Working Products Are Your Ultimate Weapon Against Risks

        Delivering usable, working products frequently is key to reducing risk in Agile. Focus on feedback, automation, and lean practices over excessive documentation.
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        Evidence-based Management: Gathering the metrics

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

        Maximising Product Value: The Power of Hypothesis-Driven Engineering

        Explores how hypothesis-driven engineering helps teams maximise product value by testing ideas, measuring outcomes, and learning from failure to guide investment decisions.
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        Detecting Agile BS: Lessons from the US Department of Defense

        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 maturity in organisations.
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        I do continuous deliver, why should I Sprint?

        Explains why Sprints are valuable even with continuous delivery, highlighting benefits for planning, feedback, communication, and predictability in Scrum teams.
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        Unlocking Continuous Delivery: How Feature Flags Transform Software Development

        Explains how feature flags enable safe, incremental software releases, support continuous delivery, and use user feedback to improve features before full rollout.
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        7 Deadly Sins of Agile: Greed

        Explores how greed in Agile leads to overwork and reduced value, offering strategies for value-driven delivery, balanced sprints, team trust, and effective leadership.
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        Risk Mitigation: Agile Usable Products vs Documentation in Traditional Project Management

        Compares Agile’s risk mitigation through incremental, usable products with traditional project management’s reliance on documentation, highlighting adaptability and validation.
        Videos

        The Power of Kaizen: Continuous Improvement in Scrum and Beyond

        Explains how Kaizen’s continuous improvement principles enhance Scrum and Agile teams, with practical tips for retrospectives, workflow optimisation, and team culture.
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        Service Level Expectation

        A Service Level Expectation predicts how long work items take to complete, helping Scrum Teams improve workflow, identify issues, and set clear delivery timelines.
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        Stop Starting and Start Finishing: The Key to Team Success

        Multitasking reduces team productivity. Learn how focusing on finishing tasks, limiting work in progress, and value-based prioritisation boosts efficiency and business value.
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        Maximizing Transparency and Improvement in Software Engineering with Kanban

        Learn how Kanban boosts transparency in software engineering, helping teams visualise workflows, identify bottlenecks, and drive continuous improvement and delivery.
        Videos

        Does Your Team Truly Understand Your Product Vision and Goals?

        Ensuring every team member understands and connects their daily work to the product vision and strategic goals is key to true Agile alignment, collaboration, and value delivery.
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        Say-Do Metrics: Avoiding Agile Banditry in Your Organization

        Explains the risks of using say-do metrics in Agile, highlighting how they encourage vanity metrics, harm psychological safety, and shift focus from outcomes to outputs.
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        Biggest contribution from a Product Owner that you know of

        Explores how visionary Product Owners at Microsoft drove Agile transformation, shortened feedback cycles, and reshaped product development culture and industry standards.
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        Navigating Complexity: Why Agile Practices Are Essential for Modern Product Development

        Explains how agile practices help teams manage complexity, adapt to change, and deliver value faster in modern product development, compared to traditional methods.
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        Daily Scrum Recipe

        Discover more about Daily Scrum Recipe and how it can help you in your Agile journey!
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        Manifesto for Agile Software Development

        Discover more about Manifesto for Agile Software Development and how it can help you in your Agile journey!
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        7 deadly sins of Agile: Gluttony

        Explores how Agile teams can avoid overloading backlogs, Sprints, and products by focusing on prioritisation, value delivery, and lean, effective practices.
        Videos

        Why do you think the PSU course has become so popular for product development?

        The PSU course bridges the gap in product development by integrating user experience and design into Scrum, enabling teams to deliver more valuable, user-focused products.
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        Mastering Product Development Costs: Empower Your Team for Financial Success

        Learn how to track, manage, and optimise product development costs by empowering teams with financial awareness, key metrics, and continuous improvement for better outcomes.
        Videos

        Transforming Training: The Power of Immersive Learning in Scrum

        Explores how immersive, hands-on learning in Scrum boosts knowledge retention, practical skills, and continuous improvement compared to traditional training methods.
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        Bridging the Gap: How to Align Your Organisation for Successful Agile Product Management

        Learn how to align teams, stakeholders, and processes for effective agile product management by fostering shared goals, clear communication, and evidence-based practices.
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        Scrum doesn't solve problems, it reveals them. How, and why is that valuable?

        Explains how Scrum exposes hidden organisational problems through transparency and feedback, enabling teams to identify issues, improve processes, and drive real change.
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        What is empiricism and why is it so critical to great Agile?

        Explains how empiricism—continuous observation, inspection, and adaptation—drives Agile success by enabling teams to respond effectively to real project data and feedback.
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        Can organisations run an Applying Professional Scrum workshop? How would that help them?

        Running an Applying Professional Scrum workshop helps organisations build agile skills, improve teamwork, and adopt Scrum practices through hands-on, collaborative learning.
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        Unlocking the Superpower of Software Development: How Shifting Left Transforms Quality Assurance

        Explains how adopting a shift-left approach in software development improves quality, speeds up delivery, reduces costs, and fosters collaboration by involving QA early.
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        Mastering Scrum: Essential Insights for New Teams from a Scrum Master's Journey

        Guidance for new Scrum teams on building strong foundations, embracing empiricism, Scrum values, continuous learning, and the Scrum Master’s role in fostering team growth.
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        How Immersive Learning Transforms Aspiring Agile Leaders

        Immersive learning helps aspiring agile leaders overcome cultural barriers by providing time, practical experiments, and peer feedback to drive real organisational change.
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        How does a Scrum Master or Agile coach motivate a Scrum Team?

        Explains how Scrum Masters and Agile coaches boost team motivation by setting clear goals, fostering engagement, recognising achievements, and promoting continuous improvement.
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        Unlocking the Power of Sprint Planning: Transform Your Agile Approach for Success

        Learn how effective Sprint planning boosts Agile team performance, with practical workshops, coaching, feedback, and adaptable methods for continuous improvement.
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        Sprint Review #1

        Discover more about “Sprint Review
        Videos

        Empowering Agile Teams: Why Understanding Product Vision is Key to Success

        Explains why agile teams need a clear understanding of product vision and strategic goals to boost alignment, ownership, decision-making, and adaptability.
        Videos

        Maximise Your Scrum Process: Leveraging Azure DevOps for Agile Success

        Learn how to customise Azure DevOps to support Scrum teams, manage backlogs, plan sprints, and improve agile workflows with practical setup and process tips.
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        Rethinking Backlog Management: Why a Flat Structure Boosts Agility and Value Delivery

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

        7 Harbingers of the Agile apocalypse - Silence

        Explores how silence in agile teams signals disengagement, and offers strategies to boost stakeholder participation, open communication, and effective sprint reviews.
        Videos

        Are there any Scrum courses that teach you how to scale Scrum?

        Learn how to scale Scrum by tailoring frameworks to your organisation, focusing on dependency management, alignment, and iterative improvement for effective agile delivery.
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        How does a Scrum team decide on a Sprint goal?

        Explains how Scrum teams collaboratively define a clear, achievable Sprint goal through early stakeholder input, planning, consensus, and ongoing communication.
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        How do you select the most valuable items for the sprint backlog?

        Learn how Agile teams collaboratively select high-value sprint backlog items by balancing business needs, technical priorities, and stakeholder input for effective sprint planning.
        Videos

        Beyond the Rituals: Embracing the Core Principles of Scrum for True Agile Success

        Explores how focusing on Scrum’s core principles—empiricism, transparency, and value delivery—leads to true agile success, beyond just following rituals or practices.
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        How does the APS course help people apply scrum effectively?

        Explains how the APS course uses practical exercises and simulations to help people understand, apply, and improve scrum practices in real-world organisational settings.
        Videos

        Redefining Agile’s Core: Beyond Rituals and Procedures

        Explores how Agile’s true value lies in delivering outcomes and adapting to change, not just following rituals or procedures, and highlights the need for human judgement in complex systems.
        Videos

        Rethinking Sprint Planning: Why Burndown Charts Are Agile Banditry and What to Do Instead

        Explains why burndown charts hinder agile teams, highlighting the pitfalls of detailed upfront planning and advocating for minimal, adaptive Sprint planning and continuous flow.
        Videos

        Ditch the Agile Bandit Mentality: How to Prioritise Value Over Estimates for Team Success

        Explores why focusing on value delivery and psychological safety leads to better Agile team outcomes than fixating on estimates, output metrics, or blame culture.
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        Combatting Famine in Agile: How to Foster Stakeholder Engagement and Boost Team Morale

        Explores how lack of stakeholder feedback in Agile harms team morale and alignment, and offers practical ways to boost engagement and maintain effective collaboration.
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