This document discusses governance mechanisms for business agility. It argues that governance should focus on enabling value creation rather than just monitoring and control. Metrics should help teams get better by providing insights into realizing business value and facilitating learning. When measuring features, value must be attributable to financial benefits, time criticality, capability enhancement, risk reduction, or opportunity enablement. Measuring flow can be done through Kanban boards, cumulative flow diagrams, and pruning queues. Some reflections include whether throughput equals value, if utilization is a measure of success, who makes estimates, and why estimates are needed.

1. Title
By..An overview
Firstname, Surname
Date
Governance mechanisms for Business Agility
S R V Subrahmaniam

2. Hello!
I am Subbu
I am here because I love to share and learn.
I am a freelance Agile coach and work in
Enterprise transformations. Believe agile is
not an end in itself and way to a better
outcome
… from Madras

3. OBJECTIVE OF GOVERNANCE?
Monitoring & Control
or
Enabling Value

4. What do we want to measure?
Vital few OR Trivial many?
J M Juran on Pareto principle

6. Governing the ‘Projects’ way

7. Picture Credit: Smartsheet
Governance is centered around compliance to this triangle

8. Budgets
Metrics and
reporting
Micro-
management
utilization
Managing
resources
Time-sheets

9. And
Hope all of this produces
value!

10. In knowledge industry where requirements
Emerge and evolve
Do we spend our energies on
Complying to plan
Or
Creating Value & enhancing learning

11. Go for
Agile &#noprojects

13. Metrics should help the team get better
Offer insights into realization of business value
Facilitate learning
Easy to collect / Easy to interpret

14. What do we want to measure?
Value
Flow
Product Quality
Structural Quality

15. Feature Value must be
attributable to
Financial benefits
Time criticality
Capability enhancement
Risk reduction
Opportunity enablement
Models like Weighted
Shortest Job First would help
Value Points (by Paul Ellarby)
would also help
All features are
not equal;
Some are more
valuable than
others

16. Measuring Flow
▪KANBAN Board ▪Cumulative Flow Diagram ▪Pruning Queues

17. Some Reflections
Does throughput equal
value?
Is Utilization a measure of
success
Who makes the
estimates?
Why do we need
estimates?

20. Thanks!
!
Any questions?
You can find me at
@srv_subbu
srv.subbu@yahoo.in
www.linkedin.com/in/srvsubbu