Agile Transformation

Optimising software delivery is essential in today’s rapidly-evolving tech landscape and by using flow metrics to optimise software delivery, you can elevate the efficiency of your delivery pipeline. This article breaks down key flow metrics that streamline processes, reduce waste, and speed up delivery, so you can expect practical steps to implement these metrics for measurable improvements in your software delivery strategy.

When navigating through the complexities of project portfolios, you might wonder how Lean Portfolio Management can streamline your organisation’s processes.

If you want to reach higher levels of Agile maturity, it is important to identify and address the underlying issues that may be hindering your progress. Applying objective value-based metrics, Flow Load and Flow Predictability enable continuous improvement every quarter. Using Flow Metrics across the organisation has become nearly synonymous with Agile Ways of Working and SAFe. Provided with good aggregate data from across teams showing Program or Portfolio progress, business owners, Lean-Agile Leaders, Product Managers/Owners, System Architects and Release Train Engineers can have wonderfully compelling conversations.

Service Delivery Review is assessing the performance of the service being provided against a set of measures. Things like Lead Time, Quality, Customer Satisfaction, Fitness Level and so on. It’s a focus on how the work is flowing through the value stream. The key is that data is brought in to have an informed view on these measures.

So if we need to adapt to a new agile framework, where do we start? The good news is that we can use agile delivery processes to provide a solution. The Agile tools, processes, and ceremonies these teams use are designed to natively provide visibility, transparency, and are actually designed specifically to allow for change which makes them natively set up for governance. In fact, they give you an even better end-to-end and closer to a real-time view of your value delivery at a lower overhead and cost.

A key element of any system implementation and agile transformation is the ability to track Service Delivery Performance metrics. This enables you to demonstrate the impact of the changes you are bringing to the ecosystem, with a customer perspective.