Are you faced with budget constraints? Do you have a high-performing team that believes it's outgrown the need for a dedicated Scrum Master? Don't worry; you don’t have to compromise your team's success or bid farewell to the Scrum. Even without a dedicated Scrum Master, you can adopt plenty of strategies to maintain, or even enhance, your team's performance.

Curious about how to navigate this challenge? Let's dive into the insights shared by @mike, @jeff, and @pat on how to keep your team thriving under these circumstances. Join the conversation and discover innovative ways to sustain your team's momentum and commitment to delivering excellent products, regardless of your setup!

In recent episodes, we discussed the importance of tracking metrics to measure the effectiveness of your work.  Sounds great, right?  But what metrics are important to measure?  Hint: If your list of metrics starts and ends with Story Points you might be missing something.

In this episode @Mike and @Jeff share some of their favorite metrics to measure.

In our recent episodes, we’ve discussed aligning value and creating a visual map of your stakeholders. Now what?

In this episode, Mike and Jeff discuss getting stakeholders actively involved, from product definition to delivery. They are probably less involved than you think. Hear how to ensure you have the right people involved, at the right time, and doing the right things.

Are your meetings effective? Are the right people there? Do they all know why they are there? Are you confident that you have alignment across the organization on your product’s direction? If you answered “no” to any of those questions, you might benefit from a stakeholder mapping exercise. In this week’s episode, Jeff and Pat talk through two simple tools to group your stakeholders, allowing you to answer “YES!” to all the questions above.

In our recent episodes, we emphasized the need to focus on business outcomes in successful Agile organizations. Once business outcomes are prioritized, good Agile coaches focus on the agile practices that support those business outcomes. In this episode, we share some concrete examples of how to do it.

In our last episode, we delved into Agile Failure Modes. In this episode, Pat and Mike share their expertise on how to avoid these modes by aligning your organization with the most important business outcomes. 

When an organization shifts from traditional practices to an Agile way of working, it faces numerous challenges. However, only a handful of common issues are responsible for the outright failure of Agile transformations. In this episode, Mike and Pat will examine these prevalent failure modes and introduce a framework designed to prevent them.

In our recent episodes, we've explored Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) and its pivotal role in optimizing value delivery for both businesses and stakeholders. LPM shifts from the traditional Project-oriented management to more impactful Product-oriented management.   

In this episode, Project Management Professional Patrick and Jeff discuss the key disparities between Project- and Product-mindsets, and why that is important to Lean Portfolio Management. 

Welcome to part two of our 3-Part Lean Portfolio Management series! 

From our previous episode, you now know what Lean Portfolio Management is. The next question is: how do you maximize value with LPM to achieve your business

How do you prioritize and allocate resources across various projects to ensure optimal outcomes? How do you ensure alignment between these outcomes and your organization's strategy and business objectives? Tune in to this episode to learn how Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) can help executives, project/product managers, PMO leaders, and key stakeholders bring most the value to business objectives. Stay tuned for upcoming episodes to learn more about LPM!