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How can Agile Tools help executives?

You will be able to visualize the strategy delivery. Creating alignment Agile Tools B2B SaaS platform implements the OKR framework. Creating alignment is one of the main benefits of creating goals (objectives). The main purpose is to ensure everyone is going in the same direction, with clear priorities, in a constant rhythm. Focus & Accountability Goal setting increases employee engagement. Teams create a clear direction and are free to choose how to achieve their goals. They become responsible for their objectives, with clear success criteria known to the whole organization encouraging autonomy and accountability. Setting goals create a focus in the organization. Key Performance Indicators Delivering strategy is not only by setting goals and improving quarter over quarter but also monitoring the most important metrics for your business. With KPIs, you will be able to set and observe the most important indicators with smart automatic alert thresholds. You will not be overwhelmed with notifications and emails. People & Customers Agile Tools enable organizations to benchmark their current state of business agility and suggest areas of improvement, guided by data, trends, and sets of metrics. You will be able to inspect and uncover the most valuable adaptations in evolving towards a successful people and customer-oriented organization.

How can Agile Tools help product managers?

Having no insight into the product-related metrics leads to sub-optimal performance. Create predictable delivery Several product-oriented metrics are available to give actionable pointers where to invest some time in adapting current techniques in day-to-day work at building a product. All metrics on the Agile Tools platform are classified into three scopes: organizational units, value units (product, project, initiatives, …), and team ones. Business-oriented metrics Do you have just a feeling that something is wrong with your value stream? Do you know where your product development bottlenecks are? Join financial metrics with metrics for HR, marketing, IT, sales, and you will get a better picture of how the strategy is being delivered. Data-driven decisions Where to invest time & money? Set goals to include metrics such as the Customer Usage Index and make informed and not often costly, gut-feeling decisions.

How can Agile Tools help agile leaders?

Having an Evidence-Based Management platform at hand to show the value Scrum is providing. Agile is an umbrella term, Scrum is one of the Agile practices, frameworks. Spreading Scrum values Facilitate setting goals for teams, selected by each team, fostering cooperation. Each team selects its metrics, and the importance of this can not be stressed enough! No command-and-control paradigm here where managers select measures for their subordinates. Also, a safe environment is a must. Commitment, courage, focus, openness, and respect. Professional growth Measurably improve the development team engineering & process skills contributing to increased business agility of the organization. The metrics are here to bring the attention of a team to start discussing possible techniques for improvement. We believe there is a bright side to metrics. We believe metrics can help you get better! Evidence-Based Management framework Increase Ability to Innovate and other Key-Value areas and get valuable evidence of progress. Scrum Master can use an emerging EBM framework from scrum.org to promote a holistic approach on measurements.

How can Agile Tools help teams?

More opportunities for growth and a chance to create Mondays a great workday ;-) A sense of purpose Imagine that a company’s mission and vision are not only fancy words published at more or less visible locations. Imagine that company’s leadership has taken an extra step to define long-turn goals at the highest level, maybe even for the vision itself. If you, as a team lead, or a team member, can align to these goals you will suddenly have a greater sense of your personal contribution. If you, however, do not need a purpose, well - you can help out your colleagues ;-) Professional growth By having the opportunity to influence how the goals are created - instead of only being presented with them by your manager or not having them at all, you suddenly have an excellent opportunity to learn. By creating the Key Results, you can agree with your managers to do experiments while simultaneously aligned vertically and horizontally with your peers. It is like a free voucher to grow professionally. Structure at work People at companies deliver value to end-users in vastly different manners. OKRs can act as a missing link if you have challenges with your work process. They can connect broader goals with the daily grind with monthly or quarterly goals for the team you are part of.