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Using data, metrics, and feedback to drive continuous improvement in teams and processes.

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.

Managing and reducing technical debt to maintain sustainable development velocity.

Measuring the time from work initiation to customer delivery, helping teams monitor workflow efficiency and improve value delivery.

The Scrum Master is an accountability in Scrum, responsible for enabling the effectiveness of the Scrum Team and fostering continuous improvement across the organisation.

Ensure fast, reliable development with Continuous Integration (CI). Merge code frequently, detect errors early, and maintain a healthy codebase.

Optimising how often software is deployed to enhance feedback loops and value delivery.

Applying software engineering principles to ensure scalable and reliable systems.

A Shift-Left Strategy brings testing, security, and compliance earlier in development, reducing defects, accelerating feedback, and improving quality for faster, more reliable delivery.

Achieving excellence in software craftsmanship, architecture, and engineering practices.

The foundation of Agile: clean code, automation, and test-first development.

Driving software design through automated tests for better quality.

Enhance forecasting in Agile and Scrum. Use empirical data to predict delivery timelines, manage risk, and optimise value delivery.

Managing the development, maintenance, and governance of software applications throughout their lifecycle.

One Engineering System (1ES) is a strategic standardised, integrated framework designed to streamline software development by unifying tools, processes, and practices across teams. It provides a consistent, scalable foundation that supports high-quality, efficient, and secure software delivery.

Ensure software quality and reliability with Automated Testing. Detect issues early, reduce manual effort, and accelerate delivery.

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

Automating builds, tests, and deployments with Azure Pipelines.

Align development with business goals using Behaviour Driven Development (BDD). Improve collaboration and create clear, testable requirements.

Ensuring continuous delivery of incremental improvements to users and stakeholders.

Balancing risk and speed when getting software into production.

Test First is a practice that defines success before implementation. It supports manual and automated testing, with a strong preference for automation to improve flow and quality.

Tracking the time taken to complete a unit of work from start to finish.

Delivering working, valuable software at the end of each iteration, ensuring value is incrementally added to the product.

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.

Visualising workflows to identify inefficiencies and optimise value delivery.

An Internal Developer Platform streamlines development processes, enabling teams to build, test, and deploy applications efficiently within a controlled environment.

Best practices for version control and branching strategies in modern software development.

Optimising the throughput of work across the value stream to improve speed and reduce bottlenecks.

Understanding how technology and organisational structures interact to shape software delivery and team effectiveness.

Automating software testing to improve quality and accelerate feedback loops.

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.

Ensuring backlog items meet a clear, actionable standard before sprint planning.

Using hypothesis-driven approaches to test ideas and validate assumptions in agile workflows.

Platform Engineering is the practice of designing, building, and maintaining internal platforms that enable developers to deliver value independently, reliably, and at pace.

Empowering teams to take ownership and drive value autonomously.

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

Managing source control with Azure Repos for modern software development.

Throughput is a delivery metric used to inspect how much work is completed per unit of time, enabling analysis of flow efficiency and system constraints.

A strategic approach to improving the flow of value through an organisation, optimising efficiency, reducing waste, and aligning work with customer outcomes.

Setting up and configuring software, hardware, and systems for optimal performance, using tools and automation.

The Agile ideal: teams with all the skills needed to deliver end-to-end value.

Approaches to planning incremental and iterative software releases.

Azure DevOps is a product from Microsoft that provides tools around CI/CD, collaboration, and agile project management. Other names are Team Foundation Server, TFSOnline, Visual Studio Online (VSO), and Visual Studio Team Services.

Agentic Agility is the ability for humans and AI to take intentional, adaptive action within socio-technical environments, enabling continuous improvement, value delivery, and organisational resilience. It transforms Agile, Scrum, and DevOps from passive execution into deliberate evolution, ensuring agility remains a living capability, not a hollow label.

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.

Drive change with Agile Leadership. Foster adaptability, empower teams, and create a culture of continuous improvement.

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

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.

Continuous Improvement is the ongoing practice of relentless reflection and adaptation, driven by empirical evidence, aimed at consistently enhancing processes, products, and team effectiveness. It embodies a commitment to incremental and measurable advancements, fostering a culture of proactive experimentation, rapid feedback, and learning to achieve sustainable and strategic business agility.

Team performance is a systemic indicator of how well a team consistently delivers value, reflecting its collaborative and technical delivery capability over time.

Adapting based on evidence, not assumptions, through inspection and transparency.

Techniques and methodologies for high-quality software engineering.

Understand and apply Agile Values and Principles based on first principles. Build a foundation for true agility and continuous value delivery

Enable seamless collaboration with Asynchronous Development. Improve efficiency, flexibility, and delivery across distributed teams.

The art of unlocking potential in teams and leaders through guidance rather than directives.

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

Improve clarity and readiness with Backlog Refinement. Ensure work is well-defined, prioritised, and ready for execution.

Guides and discussions around setting up, installing, and configuring tools, software, and platforms.

Fostering a growth mindset and knowledge sharing for sustained team improvement.

Open Space Agile is an approach to organisational agility that applies the principles of Open Space Technology—a self-organising, agenda-free format for large group collaboration—to Agile transformation. Popularised by Daniel Mezick and others in the Open Leadership Network, Open Space Agile invites everyone in the organisation to co-create the change process, fostering psychological safety, shared ownership, and authentic engagement. Rather than relying on top-down rollout plans, it embraces emergence, letting those closest to the work define priorities and actions through open, iterative dialogue. This approach aligns with complexity thinking and honours the Agile ethos by enabling transformation to unfold organically, adaptively, and in response to real needs.

Master Agile Planning to balance flexibility with predictability. Align teams, optimise delivery, and drive value continuously.

Maximise team alignment and adaptability with the Daily Scrum. Inspect progress, adapt plans, and ensure focus on the Sprint Goal.

Using experimentation and validated learning to drive product decisions.

The foundation for innovation and high-performing teams.

Ensuring openness and visibility in agile processes to build trust and accountability.

Platforms that remove friction in communication and coordination, supporting Agile teams.

Understand the Agile philosophy and its impact on organisations. Go beyond frameworks to explore Agile as a guiding ethos for value delivery.

Manage Agile projects effectively with Azure Boards. Track work, optimise planning, and improve team collaboration.

Techniques and strategies for improving operational efficiency and delivery.

Strategies for iterative and continuous value delivery to customers.

Leverage Artificial Intelligence to enhance decision-making, automation, and innovation in Agile, DevOps, and software development.

Guidance and coaching for agile professionals and leadership.

Commitment, courage, focus, openness, and respect as the foundation of Scrum.

Fostering engagement, ownership, and high performance within agile teams.

Identifying and resolving issues in software, hardware, and systems to maintain functionality.

Ability to Innovate is one of the four key value areas of Evidence‑Based Management that gauges organizational capability in terms of innovation. It is composed of a group of measures that assess how effectively an organization generates, implements, and sustains innovative solutions. Rather than a single metric, this group may include indicators like the frequency of experiments, innovation throughput, and learning cycles, offering a broad view of the organization’s capacity to innovate.

Minimising waste while maximising learning in product creation.

Strategies and techniques for effective backlog management and refinement.

GitHub is a platform for version control and collaboration, offering tools for code hosting, CI/CD, project management, and team collaboration.

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.

Applying Lean principles to reduce waste and improve efficiency in workflows.

Professional Scrum is a disciplined ethos of empiricism, accountability, and continuous improvement that transcends the Scrum framework.

Working software is the tangible, functional output produced during a Sprint, representing a concrete artifact that delivers value to customers.

Drive long-term success with Agile Strategy. Align vision, execution, and adaptability to deliver continuous value.

Best practices for enabling effective distributed and remote agile teams.

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

A Service Level Expectation predicts how long work items take to complete, helping Scrum Teams improve workflow, identify issues, and set clear delivery timelines.

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.

Explore and compare Agile frameworks. Understand their principles, applications, and impact on organisational agility and value delivery.

Establishing team norms and collaboration principles for effective teamwork.

Apply Systems Thinking to understand complexity, improve decision-making, and drive sustainable organisational change.

Master estimation in Agile and Scrum. Improve forecasting, manage uncertainty, and align expectations using empirical data and collaborative techniques.

Applying practical, experience-based problem-solving in complex environments.

Liberating Structures is a set of simple, adaptable facilitation methods designed to make meetings more interactive, inclusive, and productive. Each structure replaces conventional habits like open discussion or status reporting with clear participation formats. Used across Agile, Lean, and organisational change initiatives, they provide structure without control, helping teams uncover insights and co-create better outcomes.

Inspecting and adapting the increment to ensure transparency and stakeholder feedback.

Optimise Agile execution with Agile Planning Tools. Enhance backlog management, forecasting, and collaboration across teams.

Scaling agile beyond teams to drive enterprise-wide transformation and innovation.

Deliver what matters. Shape systems and decisions around customer outcomes, not internal convenience.

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 that could be captured with further improvements. Instead of being a single metric, it includes various indicators that assess untapped opportunities, such as latent market demand or areas for innovation. These combined measures offer insight into how much additional value remains available for the organization.

Embrace Beta Codex for decentralised, adaptive, and human-centric organisational design. Enable true agility beyond rigid hierarchies.

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

Lead successful Agile Transformations. Shift mindsets, evolve processes, and enable true organisational agility.

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Applying empirical evidence to drive leadership decisions and improvements.

Scaling agility beyond teams to drive organisational responsiveness and adaptability.

Understanding motivation, engagement, leadership, and team dynamics.

An approach to understanding and managing organisations, systems, and uncertainty using complexity science, emergence, and nonlinear dynamics. Incudes but not limited to Cynefin and Stacy.

Minimising waste and maximising value through iterative learning and continuous improvement.

The Product Owner is an accountability in Scrum, responsible for maximising product value through effective backlog management and stakeholder alignment.

Helping organisations interpret complexity and make informed decisions.

Defining long-term objectives that align with business agility and competitive advantage.

Building the Minimum Viable Product to test ideas and validate market assumptions quickly.

Social technologies are systems of thought that shape collaboration, decision-making, and adaptability. Rooted in self-organisation and continuous learning, they enable organisations to evolve, innovate, and create sustainable value.

Tightening the loop between delivery and learning to ensure products meet real needs.

Organisational Physics is a conceptual model that uses systems thinking to analyse and influence the dynamics within organisations, focusing on the interplay between people, processes, and technology.

Decision-making in uncertain environments using heuristics, probability, and behavioural economics.

Driving transformation efforts to enable agility and resilience.

Competence is a first principle that demands continuous development and demonstrable capability. It is the foundation of professionalism—without it, there can be no trust, no quality, and no real progress.

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

Adopting modern digital technologies to drive business agility and innovation.

Helping organisations shift mindsets and processes without falling into transformation theatre.

Exploring how culture shapes agility, responsiveness, and transformation.

The Scrum Team is a defined accountability within Scrum, composed of a Scrum Master, Product Owner, and Developers working together toward a shared Product Goal.

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 that collectively assess the tangible, real‑time value a product or service delivers. This group of measures includes, for example, customer satisfaction data, revenue impact, and performance feedback—all of which help determine how much value is being realized at present.

A critical lens on attempts to combine project management with agile delivery approaches.

A financial observability metric showing how much revenue is generated per employee, used to inspect workforce efficiency and strategic alignment over time.

Company as a Product (CaaP) is an organisational strategy that treats the entire company as a continuously evolving product, rather than a static structure. It emphasises designing and refining the organisation based on customer feedback, measurable outcomes, and strategic goals—much like product development. Popularised by thought leaders in modern organisational design and continuous discovery, CaaP encourages cross-functional collaboration, experimentation, and alignment across all levels. Instead of optimising for internal efficiency or hierarchy, it focuses on delivering value to customers and adapting the company’s capabilities, systems, and structures as intentionally as one would iterate on a product.

Applying structured, evidence-based approaches to make informed business choices.

Align strategy with execution through Portfolio Management. Prioritise investments, optimise value streams, and drive organisational agility.

The ability of an organisation to rapidly adapt to market changes, customer needs, and emerging opportunities.

Applying Lean principles to rapidly test and validate business ideas with minimal risk.

Strategies to keep users engaged and reduce churn through continuous value delivery.

Enhancing an organisation’s ability to respond to market shifts and competitive pressures.

Cell Structure Design is an organisational design model developed by Niels Pfläging, rooted in the principles of the Beta Codex. It replaces traditional hierarchies with a decentralised, network-based structure composed of autonomous, value-creating units called cells. Each cell operates with end-to-end responsibility, enabling responsiveness, accountability, and continuous adaptation. Informed by complexity theory, Cell Structure Design rejects command-and-control in favour of dynamic coordination and transparency, empowering people to self-organise around customer value rather than roles or silos.

Identifying patterns and shifts to inform strategic decision-making.

Maximise product value with Agile Product Management. Align strategy, customer needs, and continuous delivery.

Measuring and enhancing customer happiness to ensure product-market fit.

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Fostering innovation, risk-taking, and value-driven decision-making in business.

Gaining competitive advantage by expanding a product’s presence in its market segment.

Fostering motivation and commitment for high-performing teams.

Identifying customer needs and defining valuable product features.

Defining a vision and roadmap to create a competitive and sustainable product.

Coordinating people, processes, and tools to achieve project goals across various methodologies and contexts.

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A Definition of Workflow explains how work moves through each stage, using clear rules and limits to make progress visible and support team collaboration and improvement.