Speaker - Patricia Kong

Patricia Kong is the Product Owner of the Scrum.org enterprise solutions program which includes the Nexus Framework, Evidence-Based Management, Scrum Studio and Scrum Development Kit. She also created and launched the Scrum.org Partners in Principle Program. Patricia is a people advocate and fascinated by organizational behavior and misbehaviors. She emerged through the financial services industry and has led product development, product management and marketing for several early stage companies in the US and Europe. At Forrester Research, Patricia worked with their largest clients focusing on business development and delivery engagements. Patricia lived in France and now lives in her hometown of Boston. Patricia is fluent in 4 languages.

https://www.scrum.org/team/patricia-kong

Evidence-Based Management Workshop

Evidence-based, or empirical, measurement and governance models help organizations to better understand, help, and guide their agile initiatives. Agile approaches help organizations more effectively deliver value under conditions of uncertainty, and evidence-based management helps organizations understand how to better help teams to deliver value by giving them better insights into their achievements and challenges.

Who Should Attend

Senior product/LOB execs who need their organizations to engage more frequently and deeply with customers
Senior leaders who are sponsoring an agile transformation
organizational change team members who will be helping their organizations through an agile transformation
Scrum Masters and anyone on a Scrum Team who wants to know more about how to measure and guide a team based on evidence

What They Will Learn

Understanding when, where, and why organizations need agility
Product health and how to measure it in 4 dimensions
Unrealized Value
Ability to Innovate
Time to Market
Current Value
How to apply EBM to managing agile initiatives
How to get started

Format and Outcomes

The half-day public workshop is limited to 20 attendees. It consists of interactive exercises that will help attendees learn EBM concepts and put them into practice, including helping them identify leading and lagging measures that will help them understand the health of their agile iniatives.