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The Simple Way to Improve Visibility on Projects

LiquidPlanner

A work management software tool can help, but only if everyone looks at it. When your software tools use the power of planning intelligence, it’s easy to bring the team together around transparent goals. The solution is using smart software to bring all the elements you need to run a project together in a centralized location.

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Troubleshooting in Lean-Agile Development

MPUG

It’s usually based on a cadence. As shown in the above figure, there is no regular timeboxed iteration, but incremental delivery can happen in cadence. When you fire a gun in the dark, it’s difficult to aim due to the lack of light. Developers, with all due respect to them, are generally optimistic people.

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Unlocking the Power and Mastery of Development Approach and Life Cycle

Project Pulse Journal

This domain facilitates strategic alignment, optimized delivery cadence, methodology customization, increased flexibility, and improved risk management. The desire for a project management framework that sustains deliverability, supports the required cadence, and remains faithful to an adaptable methodology is now within reach.

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Disciplined Agile & SAFe

International Institute for Learning

DA was developed in 2011 by Scott Ambler and Mark Lines and is based on Scott’s work at Rational Software and IBM. To coordinate the teams, SAFe applies cadence and synchronization. Cadence means all teams are aligned to a standard, two-week delivery cycle. They emerged about a decade after the Agile Manifesto.

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Sprint Burndown and Burnup Charts with MS Project Agile

MPUG

As I’ve explained in a previous article, flow-based Agile can benefit from cadences. All Scrum events, such as Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective are available in this Sprint 1’s backlog. This is represented by the line having blue color coding. References. [1]

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4 Common Misconceptions About Agile Transformation

Leading Agile

That having weekly planning cadences; daily standups, reviews, and retrospectives would give people a reason to get in the same room and collaborate. Things really take off with the advent of the CSM certification and PMI finally recognizing Agile as a legitimate way to do software project management.

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Do We Need Risk Management in Agile Projects?

MPUG

As we will see, agile methods are, to a degree, a response to the kind of risks that software development projects face. What agile adds to this, therefore, is a distinct cadence of its own iterations or drawdowns of tasks into the Work in Progress part of the Kanban Board. This is the uncertainty of the end product.