Metrics
Derek Huether
Most Important Metric for an Enterprise

As an executive, you will be faced with the choice to do the pivot (if you can) or persevere (if you have no other choice). This will lead to a series of “bets”. You lead with a hypothesis that the things you change will allow you to operate at pre-event levels. But, how long will it actually take for you to validate your hypothesis and have a bet pay off with pre-event levels? If you run out of time to figure it out or run out of bets you can place, then you either lose your standing in the market or worse risk going out of business.

Derek Huether
How to identify dependencies with Tableau and ...

Regardless of the organization or institution, there will always be dependencies. The larger the organization, the greater chance of the existence of dependencies.
This template is available for download from Tableau Public

Video
Derek Huether
Value Stream Management

In the following interview (both video and audio), Dave Prior and I explore why Value Stream Management is so important, how it works, the connection to Value Stream Mapping, and how you can get started with it.

Derek Huether
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Key performance indicators (KPIs) are metrics that are used to evaluate the performance of an organization or individual. They are used to measure progress towards achieving specific goals or objectives and to determine whether an organization or individual is meeting their targets.

Enterprise Insights, Jira Align, Metrics, Tableau
Derek Huether
How Atlassian Jira Align Supports Flow Metrics

I keep getting asked, does Jira Align support Flow Metrics, as defined in the Flow Framework and SAFe? The short answer is yes. If you believe these metrics will help unlock the potential of your teams, use this community post to see working examples of Tableau reports I have created using Jira Align and Enterprise Insights.

How Atlassian Jira Align Supports Flow Metrics

Course Canvas

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How David Bland helped my PMI ACP workshop

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Course Canvas

After each PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP) workshop that I offer, I refine the format to make it better.  I learn some new content from the ACP Support team at the PMI Agile Community of Practice and some I learn directly from the students in my class.  Originally, my key objective for the class was to provide an introduction to Agile; strictly positioning the class as a knowledge-based learning workshop.  The 3-day workshop was a learning experience filled with lecture, group discussions, hands on exercises, and videos.  Based on feedback through formal course evaluations and talking with the students, I actually added performance-based learning as an additional key objective. (ie. getting a passing score on a certification exam versus just learning new approaches to deliver value to customers). It's been an interesting progression.  The name of the workshop started as "Agile Fundamentals: PMI-ACP Prep".  The feedback from the classes was there was not enough exam prep.  I didn't want to create a PMI-ACP Bootcamp but I did want to help my students.  I changed the name to  PMI Agile Certified Practitioner Workshop and then scattered relevant questions throughout the 3-day course.  I also added an ACP Practice exam so people could get a real idea of what the test is like.  The last thing I did was give each person attending my class a free Premium account with my tool AgileFlashcards.com.

The results from my latest class were very positive with comments like I liked the fact that this course provided great learning about Agile practices, fundementals and not ONLY ACP prep. Great amount of balance. 

I give David Bland some of the credit for getting my class where it is today.  I used his Course Canvas to visualize my course and make it better.  I'm sure you could use this visual tool to improve all kinds of things.  Just remember that you don't need to reinvent the wheel to make improvements.  You just need to find the right tool for the job.  I found such a tool, with the Course Canvas.