Independent workshop
From delivery evidence to decisions and follow-through.
Delivery reports show activity. They do not always explain what needs attention or what should change. This workshop develops the judgement to investigate delivery evidence, choose an intervention, review its effect and communicate what the evidence supports.
For delivery and technology leaders who run reviews and lead change.
In development · Private pilot
Work through one simulated delivery system, from checking the data to defending a recommendation. Practise deciding what needs investigation, which change is worth testing and whether the evidence supports a commitment.
Flow Observatory supplies the working examples. The judgement and records you develop remain applicable to other tools.
AI acceleration is one source of changed work, review demand and verification cost. The course also applies to delivery systems without AI.
Eight decisions · Twelve instructional hours
Eight 90-minute modules. Breaks sit outside the instructional time. The same sequence can run as four three-hour sessions.
Can this dataset answer our delivery question?
90 minutes
A workflow and evidence agreement: boundaries, populations and how blocked or reopened work is treated.
What needs investigation, and what competing explanations remain?
90 minutes
A constraint hypothesis supported by current queues, item age and delivery history, with evidence that could challenge it.
Should we limit intake, address capacity, change a hand-off or escalate?
90 minutes
An intervention record with a prediction, baseline, safeguard, owner and review point.
What should we hold, trial, stop or escalate?
90 minutes
A decision record and weekly review agenda, developed through a delivery, product and sponsor role-play.
Did the system change, and what can we reasonably attribute to the intervention?
90 minutes
A review against the original prediction, accounting for unfinished work, other changes and side effects.
Is a date supported, qualified or withheld?
90 minutes
A commitment note that retains its assumptions, or a clear account of the evidence still needed.
Does a local improvement justify a business claim or another investment?
90 minutes
An evidence chain connecting capacity, its use and business outcomes, with shared dependencies and costs made explicit.
Can another leader reconstruct and challenge our recommendation?
90 minutes
A defended recommendation and an individual plan for applying the practice at work.
Facilitated lab
One item is blocked in this simulated observation. That does not, by itself, identify a system-wide constraint. The exercise is to decide what to investigate next and which evidence would change your interpretation.
I operate an isolated simulated workspace. Groups use evidence packs and worksheets to make their own decisions. Later evidence is prepared in advance; it is not a result produced by the group during the workshop.
No software installation, Jira credentials or employer data are required.
The participant workbook holds a workflow agreement, diagnostic hypothesis, intervention record, review agenda, commitment note, value-evidence chain and workplace action plan. These are course-specific records for practising the decisions.
The final exercise is to defend a recommendation: explain the evidence, alternatives, decision authority, safeguards and what the next review must check.
Private team workshops, beginning with a pilot. Two days or four three-hour sessions, delivered remotely or in person. Class size, schedule and commercial terms are agreed individually.
Bring familiarity with ordinary product and delivery work. Statistical programming, forecasting experience and knowledge of Flow Observatory are not prerequisites.
This is an independent Roman Lobus workshop. It is separate from official Scrum.org courses and their assessment entitlements. No accreditation or software access is included.
The course is in development. The pilot will test the exercises and timing before a wider offer is made.
The workshop draws on questions developed in The Predictability Loop: how leaders use delivery evidence, test interventions and keep commitments within what is known. Reading or buying the book is not a prerequisite.
Work in progress. Expected publication March 2027.
About the bookMention Delivery Intelligence, the audience, learning need, approximate participant count and preferred format.