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Disciplined Agile & SAFe

International Institute for Learning

The Project Management Institute acquired DA in 2019 to extend its agile capabilities. To coordinate the teams, SAFe applies cadence and synchronization. Cadence means all teams are aligned to a standard, two-week delivery cycle. Synchronization is achieved through a quarterly 2-day, “big-room planning” event.

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Systems Thinking episode #4: DSRP

Scrum.org

This overview was created at the 2019 WPI systems academic seminar: “What is Systems Thinking?”. One of the powerful properties of Scrum is that it makes a very clear distinction in roles, events and artifacts. Systems Thinking has evolved a lot since it got started in the fifties.

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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. The Sprint 1 Planning event has been completed, and a number of Daily Scrums are also completed.

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Big Rocks moved in 2020

Gunther Verheyen

I speak for free at community events (a vast majority of my speaking engagements) and for a fee for commercial enterprises. I organize my work on a weekly cadence. When in the spring of 2019 my consulting services for a large company were no longer needed, I discovered I had not done a lot of serious writing for a long time.

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Managing A Hybrid-ScrumBan Project with MS Project Agile

MPUG

The fundamental block in Scrum is the Sprint, which actually sets the heartbeat of Scrum with its weekly/biweekly (or any other) cadence. We also need to add all the Scrum events, which results in the following view: Note the following: Features for Sprint 1 have been broken down into tasks and associated with the first Sprint.

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Questioning Agile Dogma

Leading Agile

How can the same principle be a good idea in 2002 and a bad idea in 2019? Each type of event in the team’s normal work flow is similarly time-boxed. Once they are able to deliver reliably on a one-week cadence, most teams find the overhead of managing formal iterations or sprints to exceed the value of the timeboxes.

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Webinar Recap: Agile Series Part 2 – Agile Features & Capabilities in MS Project / Project PPM

MPUG

You’re going to see this coming out at a very fast cadence. But there are people who are building tools, but they remember the competency of what’s being organized, structured and delivered is on a very different cadence. In fact, like I am literally sitting on things that I cannot show you, but guess what?

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