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How Do you Make a Retrospective an Interesting Session?

NimbleWork

Many teams lean into retrospectives to help uncover areas where processes could be slicker, where engagement hasn’t been as effective as it could and to look for areas of improvement. Effective leaders focus just as much on what can be improved for next time as the deliverables themselves.

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Professional Development Day 2022 – IGNITE!

International Institute for Learning

In Lean, and therefore Agile, this is recognized by the pairing of two concepts – Deferred Commitments and Last Responsible Moment. like Lean, Project Management and Agile – cannot reduce project costs unless senior decision-makers make timely decisions and take action. Every PM knows methods and tools alone – even great ones.

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The Best Project Management Templates

Wrike

You don’t have to spend time crafting documentation or process guidelines as you can lean on existing frameworks. When you work from a template, you can free up your time and energy to focus on the 80/20 of project management — that is to say, you can prioritize the most meaningful actions on your agenda that lead to the best outcomes.

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Episode 189 – Harmonizing Potential – The Jazz of High-Performing Project Teams

Velociteach

So everyone has to, one, know their part, but also really lean in and listen. So we’re going to lean in, we’re going to listen, and wherever he wants to take this song, we’re going to go with it. They all lean in and support that QA person to make sure that they have what they need. There’s a cadence. That’s so good.

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Scrum: 20 Sprint Planning Anti-Patterns

Scrum.org

Join 200-plus peers on May 30, 2022: HoA #42: The Skinny on Lean Roadmapping and OKRs w/ Janna Bastow. Irregular Sprint lengths: The Scrum team has variable Sprint cadences. If the team considered Scrum still to be its choice, I would recommend to put more energy into Product Backlog refinement and creating meaningful Sprint Goals.).

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Leveraging Agile to Get Predictable

Leading Agile

How do I get my execs to really care and invest time and energy and to show up and all those kinds of things? And as Agilists, we approach it with like a very lean startup mindset and we go, this is Agile, you don’t get predictability, right?

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Why Agile Transformation Fails | AgileIndy 2021

Leading Agile

And then you can imagine an in-state where you have encapsulated value streams, really solid business ownership, value streams are able to produce small batches on a regular cadence, and the capabilities are largely grouped, the ones that work together. And so you won’t sustain the energy. They’re encouraged to do that.

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