Scrum for one team? Scaling agile to an entire organization? No matter where you are in your agile adoption, do you know if you're getting anything out of it? Other than "change," that is. Let's look at using Evidence Based Management to find out if agile adoption is actually making a difference for you!

1. What Evidence Do You Have
That Agile is Working?
Evidence-Based Management: Prove It!
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Mark Noneman
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mark@agilitysw.com
www.agilitysw.com

2. Investment in “agile“…at what return?
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“Practices“ are indirect evidence

4. Are we on course?
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Keep your eyes on the goal

6. Constantly adapt
• Tools
• Information
• Skills
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Indirect
Evidence

7. Constantly adapt
• Tools
• Information
• Skills
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Direct Evidence

8. All that matters is business results
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9. Direct evidence-based management for
software
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10. Current value
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Current Value
Revenue per
Employee
Employee
Satisfaction
Customer
Satisfaction
Product Cost
Ratio

11. Time to market
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Time to Market
Release
Frequency
Release
Stabilization
Cycle Time
Current Value
Revenue per
Employee
Employee
Satisfaction
Customer
Satisfaction
Product Cost
Ratio

12. Ability to innovate
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Time to Market
Release
Frequency
Release
Stabilization
Cycle Time
Current Value
Revenue per
Employee
Employee
Satisfaction
Customer
Satisfaction
Product Cost
Ratio
Ability to Innovate
Installed
Version Index
Usage Index
Innovation
Rate
Defects

13. Combine it all together: the Agility IndexTM
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14. Direct evidence is lagging evidence
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15. Using the evidence
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Informs priority
Influences Outcomes
Direct
Evidence Diagnose
Improve
Indirect
Evidence

16. Indirect evidence
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17. Diagnose
…and if you’re not
the most interesting
man in the world,
maybe you should
get professional
help!
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18. Continuously
improve
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Where you are
depends on
where you’ve been
Where you go depends
on what you’ll do

20. Evidence-Based Management
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Prove it!