What is the Urgency Index? Organizations that adopt scrum, kanban, SAFe, or other agile methodologies get access to a bevy of new metrics: velocity, predictability, cycle time, variability, and many more. These metrics can help an organization incrementally improve, focus their transformation, and produce better outcomes – or they can just drive the teams to misery and organizational results to pot. So how do you get it right? First, track the urgency index.

Those who join this session will walk away with a new way to use the many new metrics that agile methodologies enables – one that drives the right conversations and results. This session is fun and interactive (with white board interaction, not slides), and always includes lots of engagement and participation. It’s not a lecture, it’s a discovery session – and I always learn as much as the attendees!

As Agile has become a popular buzzword for the C-Suite, more organizations are taking the plunge into scrum and scaled agile from the top-down and expecting to reap the benefits of being a highly mature agile organization quickly. Easy training solutions like internal or vendor-delivered Agile 101 or even an enterprise-wide CSM certification are woefully inadequate, and potentially harmful, for a successful agile transition. In this workshop we'll learn a more realistic and effective (and less expensive) way to train an agile organization.