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Disciplined Agile & SAFe

International Institute for Learning

The Project Management Institute acquired DA in 2019 to extend its agile capabilities. To coordinate the teams, SAFe applies cadence and synchronization. Cadence means all teams are aligned to a standard, two-week delivery cycle. DA defines “process blades” to describe common enterprise capabilities.

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Mastering the (new) Agile Coaching Mindset for the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR)

International Institute for Learning

As we adopt a continuous planning cadence, the ability to manage uncertainty with incomplete data becomes much more tolerable because we know we will have the opportunity to inspect and adapt at more frequent intervals. With a defined focus, people care about the essential questions around motivation, performance, and engagement.

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Systems Thinking episode #4: DSRP

Scrum.org

This overview was created at the 2019 WPI systems academic seminar: “What is Systems Thinking?”. Another example is how the Scrum guide separates activities from events: Events have a clear time-box, cadence, subject and participants. Getting the teams to define shared goals is a good intervention to change the behavior of the system.

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The Second Of Four Things You Do To Prevent Value Delivery

Scrum.org

On November 22nd, 2019, I gave the closing keynote at Scrum Deutschland, a talk called ‘The Four Things You Do To Prevent Value Delivery.’ Such a study is holistic; it involves looking at the organizational design, technical capabilities, culture and knowledge, and type of control and metrics used to define success. Background .

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Big Rocks moved in 2020

Gunther Verheyen

It is my identity in the sense that it defines me professionally in my relationship to the world. I organize my work on a weekly cadence. When in the spring of 2019 my consulting services for a large company were no longer needed, I discovered I had not done a lot of serious writing for a long time. That reflects what drives me.

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Managing A Hybrid-ScrumBan Project with MS Project Agile

MPUG

As you can see in the Development phase, we have two sub-phases: Predictive Home Development , which is in Waterfall mode with all tasks clearly defined. The fundamental block in Scrum is the Sprint, which actually sets the heartbeat of Scrum with its weekly/biweekly (or any other) cadence. We will build this portion next.

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Questioning Agile Dogma

Leading Agile

How can the same principle be a good idea in 2002 and a bad idea in 2019? ” A lot more is possible than was imagined when “Agile” was first defined. More narrowly-defined roles would have fewer concurrent assignments, but still too many to be effective. What has changed?

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