Sonya Siderova - When Velocity Hides What Matters: Flow Metrics for Scrum

Scrum Event and Sonya Siderova Present - When Velocity Hides What Matters: Flow Metrics for Scrum Coaches

Abstract:
Your teams hit velocity every sprint. But when stakeholders ask "when will this actually ship?" you can't give them a confident answer.
Here's the thing: velocity shows consistent output, but hides the reality that some stories finish within days while others take months. That hidden variability is why your forecasts don't hold.
Let me show you what happened when one Scrum team changed how they pulled work. They went from 76-day cycle time to 13 days in just 2 months. Same team. Same work. One simple change.
In this session, you'll see exactly what they did differently and how to apply it in three places: Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, and Retrospectives.
You'll walk out knowing exactly what to do Monday morning—whether you're coaching one team or enabling transformation across the enterprise.

About Sonya

Sonya Siderova helps coaches answer the question velocity can't: "When will this actually ship?" As CEO of Nave, she's spent a decade working with teams globally—especially in financial institutions—to show where work waits and what constraints to remove. She's known for making flow metrics immediately actionable, not just interesting.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/siderova/

Agenda (timezone in BST):

18:45 - 19.00 - Event Welcoming & Networking
19:00 - 20:00 - Talk
20:00- 20:15 - Event Questions & Networking

SEUs:
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