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Managing Project Assumptions and Risks

The IIL Blog

By Alan Zucker We make hundreds of assumptions and take small risks daily. Recovering from these risks may be inconvenient but not horribly impactful. Project assumptions and risks are not as casual. Project assumptions and risks are not as casual. Our risks were identified, but a response strategy was never created.

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Creating a Risk-Adjusted Backlog

Leading Answers

This article explains what a risk-adjusted backlog is, why they are useful, how to create one and how teams work with them. What is a Risk-Adjusted Backlog? A risk-adjusted backlog is a backlog that contains activities relating to managing risk in addition to the usual features associated with delivering value.

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How We Reduced Cycle Time from 164 Days to 8 Days in 6 Months

Scrum.org

Due to horrible time-management on my part, we could not answer all the questions in the webinar, so we are answering them in this blog instead. You might get more value from reading this blog if you watched the recording and reviewed the slides that are available on the webinar page - A Cycle Time Journey: 164 to 8 Days in 6 Months.

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13 Reasons to Choose Agile Project Management Methods

LiquidPlanner

You manage risk more effectively Another benefit of continuous testing is that you can spot risks earlier. Colleagues are more likely to talk about problems and risks with people they get on well with because they know their opinion will be trusted and they’ll be taken seriously. Is there likely to be a problem with a feature?

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Navigating the Scrum Events - The Sprint

Scrum.org

This time limit has an explicit purpose — “to generate more learning cycles and limit risk of cost and effort to a smaller time frame.” If your team is able to create a usable increment in a shorter time-box than 1 month, consider shortening your Sprint cadence. Figure out what is best for you.

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7 Factors for running an effective Kanban Replenishment Meeting

Digite

In 2015, in a blog post called Kanban Cadences , David Anderson laid out a set of 7 Kanban cadences or meetings that provide comprehensive opportunities for feedback, planning, and review in an enterprise. I believe this may be of interest to other teams as well, hence this blog post. Mahesh Singh. Co-founder, Sr.

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The Simple Way to Improve Visibility on Projects

LiquidPlanner

In a project-led business it’s about having a clear picture of how a project is performing, including resource allocation and potential risks. A way to know when your objectives will be done even though the future is filled with changing priorities that prompt hand-offs between teams that always seem to risk slowing things down.