Leading Answers

JANUARY 16, 2021

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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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 3, 2023

And yet, the Sprint serves a pivotal role in Scrum by setting the cadence for feedback, inspection and adaptation in Scrum. However, it's crucial to recognize that the Sprint sets the cadence for all of the other events. A shorter Sprint is better to reduce risk. There’s no meeting for “The Sprint”, you see. Consistency is Key.

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Project Risk Coach

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Imagine a business analyst who is mapping a business process. Notice the cadence, pauses, and the repetitions in the speech. The post How to Become a Better Project Communicator appeared first on Project Risk Coach. Imagine a developer who is creating a website. Why not create a swim lane diagram showing the steps and actors?

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Scrum.org

APRIL 24, 2024

These events need to happen on a cadence of one month per less to ensure that the team is collaborating frequently enough to reduce risk (the Sprint). The Sprint should ideally be just long enough to allow Developers to deliver a Done increment and just short enough to ensure that the risk is acceptable for the Product Owner.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

At regular meetings You’ll find a regular cadence and probably settle into a regular agenda or routine with the check in sessions. Having read the policy/process document/standard operating procedure on Y, I have a few questions. What might my blind spots be in this process? Can I tell you what’s happened since we last spoke?

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 8, 2024

This domain, as established by the Project Management Institute in the PMBOK 7th edition, addresses the underlying apprehension many face: the potential overcomplication of project management processes. Your pursuit of streamlining and enhancing project management processes led you to a pivotal crossroads.

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LiquidPlanner

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Are you thinking about introducing agile processes to your project management methodology? You manage risk more effectively Another benefit of continuous testing is that you can spot risks earlier. You’re having conversations about the process and the deliverables regularly so the team has opportunities to raise concerns.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 5, 2021

We also streamlined our legacy deployment process into CI/CD pipelines which removed a painful friction to frequent deployments. . A bonus on top of that, would be deep knowledge about the business processes relevant to your product. CADENCE & RELIABILITY. CADENCE: What was the sprint cadence you folks started off with?

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Velociteach

MARCH 6, 2024

The challenge is to create a fair, efficient, effective, and transparent process for our teams and stakeholders. Making better decisions requires understanding the organization and establishing context-sensitive processes. How do they feel about risk, empowerment, accountability, hierarchy, and control? By managers? Committees?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 22, 2021

Did you know that 56% of your project budget might be at risk due to poor communications? In this article, I’ll explain project communication management, why it matters, give an overview of the communications process, and some examples of where you might apply it on your own projects. THE COMMUNICATIONS MANAGEMENT PROCESS.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The emergent process and work must be visible to those performing the work as well as those receiving the work. Artifacts that have low transparency can lead to decisions that diminish value and increase risk.”. To help with inspection, Scrum provides cadence in the form of its five events.”. Transparency enables inspection.

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Kiron Bondale

MAY 26, 2019

Teams which don’t use feedback loops with their products and their processes should not consider themselves to be very agile. For those teams which use an iteration-based cadence for their delivery such as those who have implemented the Scrum framework there have multiple feedback loops to help them improve.

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Digite

AUGUST 21, 2017

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.

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Scrum.org

MAY 4, 2023

The success of building effective stakeholder communication strategy depends upon the outputs of the first two steps of the stakeholder engagement process i.e. Stakeholder Exploration and Stakeholder Analysis & Mapping. The majority of those conversations were about progress updates, key risks, timelines and immediate next priorities.

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Scrum.org

JULY 21, 2020

This directly relates to the Agile values : “Individuals and Interactions Over Process and Tools”. They have these conversations at the appropriate cadence, for appropriate duration's in order to elevate the transparency in their work. Slack also acts a risk buffer within the Sprint. It’s a shock absorber.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 4, 2022

The duration of the Sprint is timeboxed to a maximum of one month, establishing a cadence within which the Scrum team works together to deliver value. Here’s why: To deal with the risk inherent in complex environments, Scrum uses an iterative, incremental approach. Below are five of the most common misconceptions about the Sprint. .

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nTask

OCTOBER 13, 2021

They are a sure way of detecting gaps so that actionable decisions can be taken and the processes improved. In a feedback loop, the output received is used as an input to drive future processes. A company can use them for improving internal processes or bettering its products and services for the customers. Risk Review.

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Scrum.org

MAY 24, 2022

I think of the Sprint as the heartbeat of Scrum because it sets the cadence and frequency for the other events. In high-risk environments (say with unknown technology needs or rapidly changing customer requirements) it’s better to select a shorter Sprint. Planning for longer than one month takes more time and comes with more risk. .

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LiquidPlanner

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Without a harmonious project team, your project could be at risk of unhappy stakeholders and clients, delayed timelines, and every PM’s greatest nightmare … scope creep. Whenever possible, implement business process automation to help your team automate manual, repetitive tasks. Think again. One of your core goals?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 6, 2022

They let you know whether you can go overspent or what risk mitigation actions are the right ones for this point in the project. It was a much smaller group, and focused on strategic decision making instead of day-to-day problem solving and risk management. Risks and issues. They should help guide you to project success.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 11, 2022

In other words, what do you want to get out of your strategic planning process? There’s no fixed cadence for strategy conversations. If you are putting together your first strategy or doing a complete overhaul, you’ll need to spend a lot more time on it to get the strategic process set up and the relevant data collected.

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Agilemania

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Planning and Execution of Program Increment: A SAFe Agilist has envisioned a roadmap for the success of the Agile Development and successful SAFe implementation process. It emphasizes the trade-offs between risks, Cost of Delay (COD), manufacturing, operational, and development costs. Responsibilities of a SAFe Agilist.

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International Institute for Learning

APRIL 19, 2023

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. Disciplined DevOps is the set of process blades enabling the continuous delivery of working software.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

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.

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Planio

JANUARY 11, 2021

In this guide, we’re going to cover the tools, processes, and cultural shifts you need to make to successfully collaborate from wherever you are, Jump to a section: How to reverse Remote Sprawl: 10 reasons teams spread across time zones fall apart (and how to avoid them). Timing and team cadence: Decouple team cadences whenever possible.

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International Institute for Learning

JANUARY 18, 2023

Product variables include innovation, scope stability, requirements certainty, ease of change, and delivery cadence. Methods and processes you are familiar with is conducive to waterfall approaches. Methods and processes you are familiar with is conducive to waterfall approaches. Delivery cadence. Bulletin Board.

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Digite

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

In this article, he outlines the similarities of the two as WIP Limiting, Pull-based systems – with cadences and a focus on learning – while also explaining their differences. Incremental delivery of software also mitigates risk and maximizes the opportunity to learn from a business, process, and technical perspective.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The emergent process and work must be visible to those performing the work as well as those receiving the work. Artifacts that have low transparency can lead to decisions that diminish value and increase risk.”. To help with inspection, Scrum provides cadence in the form of its five events.”. Transparency enables inspection. “The

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Kiron Bondale

DECEMBER 17, 2017

Benefits management, like project risk management, is practiced poorly by most organizations. While project intake processes usually require some articulation of expected benefits, few companies effectively monitor and control the realization of those benefits over the life of a project and beyond. Benefits definition.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 7, 2020

This category of the Product Owner theses addresses the meta-level of the Product Owner role and the Scrum process: The Product Owner embraces, shares, and communicates the product vision, representing the customer voice and internal stakeholders. Additionally, there is the Product Backlog refinement as a continuous process.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

A misconception Scrum Teams have about the duration of the Sprint has to do with risk. The timebox for the Sprint Retrospective is three hours, during which the Scrum Team identifies at least one improvement they can make to improve their processes, the way they work together, or their Definition of Done. The reverse is true.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 11, 2024

If a Sprint is too long, the market may invalidate a Sprint Goal, increasing complexity and risk. Shorter Sprints, similar to short projects, promote more learning cycles and limit the risk of cost and effort to a briefer time frame. This habit also puts reaching the Sprint Goal at risk. Source : Scrum Guide 2020.

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Velociteach

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Lifecycle phases describe the required process steps from inception to delivery. Domain Management Plans The domain management plans define the processes for planning, executing, and monitoring the project’s performance; and are sections within the overall Project Management Plan. Agile projects are fundamentally different.

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Leading Answers

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

So, the responsible thing to do is to agree upfront on how everyone will be kept informed of the project’s progress, risks, issues, etc. It is this predictable cadence of show-and-tell sessions that creates the dolphins-versus-submarines comparison.  This is where a good communications management plan comes in.

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Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

“Technical agility is the underlying precondition for process agility, which is the underlying precondition for organizational agility, which is the underlying precondition for business agility. It said that technical agility is a underlying precondition for process agility. I don’t know, I guess I’m behind the times.

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Sarah M. Hoban

MAY 2, 2022

In practice, establishing a writing culture encompasses strategy and process documentation. Each team builds in time for writing process documentation as part of their job responsibilities. Process documentation lives in a centralized, accessible knowledge repository. It is also about making invisible work visible.

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Bridge the Gap Consulting

MAY 16, 2023

Be OK to raise the flag when risks and issues pop their heads up. Meeting Cadence Calendar. I didn’t see the importance of this when I first read about “Cadence Calendars.” Processing… Success! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. There were signs well in advance.

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