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All technical debt is a risk to the product and to your business

Scrum.org

This commercial product was built using traditional project management practices and delivered on a two-yearly cadence. From 2005 (first beta) until 2012 they worked, successfully delivering a new version every 2 years. Even before 2012 Leadership, and engineers, had noticed that things were getting bogged down.

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Is Knibergā€™s Aligned Autonomy matrix still relevant?

Scrum.org

He worked at Spotify around 2012 when they were pushing the boundaries of scaling agile and experimenting with new organizational designs. Instead, by sharing the same Sprint cadence and Goal, they will see opportunities for collaboration. You've probably heard of Henrik Kniberg. Endnote This document is written in the present tense.

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Disciplined Agile & SAFe

International Institute for Learning

Dean Leffingwell released the first version of SAFe in 2012. To coordinate the teams, SAFe applies cadence and synchronization. Cadence means all teams are aligned to a standard, two-week delivery cycle. The entire ART operates on a common 2-week cadence and begins its 10-week Program Increment (PI) with a 2-day planning event.

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Building bonds: A founderā€™s take on our annual team retreat

Resource Guru

Since Resource Guru launched in 2012, our mission has always been crystal clearā€” to be a magical and insightful guru, helping teams do their best work in a happier, healthier way. Our engineering team had a break-out session to discuss how they could increase the cadence of feature releases. Warm fuzzy glow just thinking about it!)

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The Agile Fluency model

Henny Portman

The Agile Fluency model, developed by Diana Larsen and James Shore in 2012 and substantially updated in 2018, is a framework to help teams understand their current position and to help them develop an individual road map. Delivering teams deliver on the market cadence (agile sustainability).

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Creating a Risk-Adjusted Backlog

Leading Answers

Then, in 2012 I presented a collection of Collaborative Games for Risk Management  at the Agile 2012 Conference in Dallas and PMI Global Congress in Vancouver. After Fortunately, the cadence of iterations and events such as retrospectives and sprint planning provides all the occasions we need to keep the process going.

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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebelā€™s Guide to PM

Itā€™s fine to have a different cadence at different points in the project lifecycle. Parts of this article first appeared on The ICPM website in 2008 and on this site in 2012. You can always change the frequency of meetings once the project is up and running and you know how much assurance is going to be applicable. and Fortune, J.