Set acceptance criteria for agile performance measurement before work begins rather than after.
Measuring Agile Performance Through Velocity and Delivery Forecast Indicators
Build a working method for agile performance measurement that stands up to scrutiny and survives daily pressure.
📍 Abu Dhabi🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
Projects involving agile performance measurement are rarely late all at once; they are late a day at a time. Most recovery effort on the wider project and portfolio delivery agenda is spent on problems that were visible early. The difficulty is not agreeing that this part of project and portfolio delivery matters — it is deciding what to stop doing to make room for it. It treats agile performance measurement as an operating discipline and equips participants to run it as one. They leave able to brief senior management on this aspect of project and portfolio delivery in terms that support a decision. Participants apply the wider project and portfolio delivery agenda to their own project throughout, so the output is directly usable. Organisations that document agile performance measurement properly resolve disputes about it far more quickly. The programme suits teams tackling this area of project and portfolio delivery together as readily as individuals attending alone. The closing exercise tests whether the participant's plan for this part of project and portfolio delivery survives a hostile question.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Establish quality acceptance criteria for the deliverables of agile performance measurement.
Define the scope and boundaries of agile performance measurement so that responsibility for it is unambiguous.
Document decisions about agile performance measurement in a form that remains useful after the people change.
Close agile performance measurement properly and capture lessons while they are still accurate.
Estimate cost and effort for agile performance measurement using more than one method.
Identify and quantify the risks to agile performance measurement and assign owners.
Who Should Attend
Client and stakeholder representatives monitoring agile performance measurement.
Contract and procurement staff supporting agile performance measurement.
Quality staff verifying that agile performance measurement performs as designed.
Project management office staff assuring agile performance measurement.
Cost engineers and project controls staff on agile performance measurement.
Team leaders and supervisors who put agile performance measurement into practice day to day.
Course Modules
Agile performance measurement: scope definition and exclusions
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Managing suppliers delivering part of agile performance measurement
- Draft the minimum viable delivery plan for agile performance measurement.
- Manage supplier performance on agile performance measurement against contract, not goodwill.
- Close out actions on agile performance measurement rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
- Define the decision gates for agile performance measurement and what evidence each requires.
Session 2Recovering agile performance measurement when it is behind
- Define how the benefit from agile performance measurement will be measured after closure.
- Archive the decision record for agile performance measurement so successors understand it.
- Hold a lessons session on agile performance measurement while memory is accurate.
- Compare the cost of agile performance measurement with the cost of its absence.
Agile performance measurement: risk identification, quantification and ownership
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The risks to agile performance measurement nobody wants to raise
- Estimate agile performance measurement using two independent methods and reconcile the difference.
- Agree the escalation threshold for agile performance measurement in advance.
- Check that agile performance measurement still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.
- Plan the sequence in which improvements to agile performance measurement will be introduced.
Session 2Keeping stakeholders of agile performance measurement genuinely supportive
- Confirm that contractual obligations around agile performance measurement are understood.
- Prepare the recovery plan for agile performance measurement before it is needed.
- Anticipate the objections agile performance measurement will raise and prepare the answers.
- Rehearse the briefing on agile performance measurement that would follow an incident.
Agile performance measurement: stakeholders, communication and support
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Escalation and decision rights in agile performance measurement
- Agree the smallest change to agile performance measurement that would be visibly useful.
- Build reporting on agile performance measurement that surfaces problems while they are small.
- Benchmark the organisation's agile performance measurement against comparable operations.
- Identify the critical path through agile performance measurement and the float elsewhere.
Session 2The decisions in agile performance measurement that cannot be delegated
- Arrange the handover of agile performance measurement so capability survives staff changes.
- Set the change control process for agile performance measurement and require cost and time impact.
- Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to agile performance measurement.
- Set escalation thresholds for agile performance measurement that work out of hours.
Agile performance measurement: governance, gates and decision rights
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Building a schedule for agile performance measurement with a real critical path
- Define acceptance criteria for each deliverable of agile performance measurement.
- Rank the weaknesses in agile performance measurement by consequence rather than by ease of fixing.
- Write the scope statement for agile performance measurement including explicit exclusions.
- Map stakeholders of agile performance measurement by influence and current level of support.
Session 2The paperwork for agile performance measurement that is actually needed
- Build the competence framework that supports agile performance measurement.
- Review at each gate whether agile performance measurement should continue at all.
- Measure progress on agile performance measurement by value earned, not tasks ticked.
- Test the procedure for agile performance measurement against a realistic scenario.
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