Value Delivery: Aligning Iterative Releases with Customer Outcomes

Defines the Definition of Done in Scrum as a clear, shared standard for quality, ensuring increments are releasable, transparent, and continuously …

Transform your definition of done into a strategic advantage—deliver real value, reduce risk, and drive business impact with every sprint.

Stop guessing—start making data-driven decisions in Azure DevOps. Discover tools, tips, and insights to make your work visible and your delivery …

Ensuring continuous delivery of incremental improvements to users and stakeholders.

Balancing risk and speed when getting software into production.

Evidence-Based Management (EBM) is a strategy for improving an organisation’s ability to deliver value by making decisions based on evidence, not …

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

Agnostic Agile is a movement that promotes ethical, context-driven agility by prioritising principles over rigid frameworks. Championed by thought …

Learn to spot six key signs of sloth in Agile teams, including missed deliveries, ignored feedback, rigid processes, and lack of adaptation, to …

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

Explains why relying on Agile burndown charts leads to over-planning and false progress, and advocates for minimal, adaptive planning and continuous …

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

Empowering teams with financial insights boosts ownership, informed decision-making, and ROI by aligning daily work with business goals through …

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

Many organisations use excuses to avoid Agile, but even large, regulated bodies can adopt iterative delivery to reduce risk and deliver value …

Learn how Kanban uses data-driven insights and probabilistic forecasting to optimise workflows, improve delivery, and enhance transparency across any …

Explains how evidence-based management uses data-driven decisions and tailored metrics to boost business value, leadership effectiveness, and …

Agentic Software Delivery is a strategy for continuously achieving business outcomes through the deliberate integration of autonomous AI agents, human …

NKD Agility helped SLB unify 800+ engineering teams by consolidating DevOps systems, standardizing processes, and improving visibility, collaboration, …

Velocity measures how quickly teams turn ideas into value, using build, test, deploy, and feedback times—not just story points—to track real delivery …

Stop testing quality in—start building it in. Learn how shifting left, automation, and fast feedback loops drive engineering excellence in modern …

Explores why traditional Dev-Test-Staging-Production pipelines fall short and highlights audience-based deployment for safer, faster feedback in real …

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

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 …

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

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

Cell Structure Design is an organisational design model developed by Niels Pfläging, rooted in the principles of the Beta Codex. It replaces …

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

Still deploying manually? Discover why automation isn’t optional—protect your business, avoid disaster, and deliver value with modern engineering …

Automating software testing to improve quality and accelerate feedback loops.

Explores how DevOps enhances enterprise collaboration, continuous improvement, automation, and customer focus to drive cultural and operational …

Explains the Scrum Master's role in ensuring team delivery by fostering agility, removing blockers, and being accountable for improving team …

Explains how Scrum reveals team dysfunctions by clarifying roles and accountability, highlighting its purpose to expose issues that hinder value …

Coordinate multiple teams to deliver complex products while preserving agility. Focus on alignment, flow, and value delivery across the enterprise …

Learn practical strategies to boost product development by using experimentation, agile methods, and collaboration to increase user value, reduce …

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

Explores how clear vision, goals, and evidence-based management empower teams, improve alignment, and foster autonomy, engagement, and effective …

Explains how project management mindsets in Product Owners can harm Agile teams, and offers practical strategies to promote value-driven, …

Mentoring program for developers and teams to master Agile, DevOps, Kanban, and evidence-based practices, fostering engineering excellence and …

Struggling with inconsistent delivery? Discover why a shared definition of done is key to predictable, high-quality results your teams—and …

Explains how technical leaders can break down organisational silos and enforce better branching, team structures, and architecture to improve software …

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 …

Stop paying the hidden costs of weak delivery. Discover how a strong, shared definition of done builds trust, quality, and real agility in your team.

Adding more staging environments does not reduce deployment risk; true safety comes from automated testing, continuous integration, and quality …

Explore proven strategies from Azure DevOps for building resilient, reliable software systems—covering transparency, automation, telemetry, incident …

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

Common Goals are a first principle of effective delivery. They align strategy with execution, enabling every decision, every Sprint, and every line of …

Explains how integrating security and quality early in software development—using practices like TDD, pair programming, and continuous feedback—builds …

Explores why true organisational agility depends on empowering teams with agency, not just adopting frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, or DevOps, to …

Highlights the importance of delivering a usable product each sprint in Agile, warning against focusing on process over outcomes and emphasising real …

Explores how Product Owners can drive strategy, maximise value, and lead Scrum teams effectively, highlighting the need for empowerment beyond basic …

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

Explains how Azure DevOps streamlines agile workflows for Scrum Masters and teams, offering simplicity, integrated tools, real-time insights, and …

Explains how fragmented automation and tool silos harm software delivery, and advocates for unified engineering systems and platform engineering to …

Explores how agile teams can achieve predictable software delivery through quality focus, effective release planning, and continuous improvement, …

Scrum Masters are most effective when they combine leadership skills with technical, business, and organisational mastery to support teams, Product …

Explains the difference between subjective goals and the objective Definition of Done in Scrum, highlighting how clear, measurable criteria ensure …

Martin is in EST for 6 months and available for hands-on consulting in North America. This month’s spotlight: How tracking estimation accuracy is …

Explains why promoting code through multiple branches slows delivery, increases risk, and suggests GitHub Flow or Release Flow as simpler, safer …

Explores how fostering a culture of quality and engineering excellence across teams leads to better, safer products, highlighting the impact of …