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The Transformation Journey: Lessons Learned

Planview

At the same time, our traditional planning processes cannot keep up or sustain us anymore: The annual plan is most on-strategy the day you finish it. Every quarter that goes by, the plan becomes less relevant. It’s difficult to react swiftly to change when your plans and budgets are set in stone. What needs to change?

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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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Mastering the (new) Agile Coaching Mindset for the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR)

International Institute for Learning

As we adopt a continuous planning cadence, the ability to manage uncertainty with incomplete data becomes much more tolerable because we know we will have the opportunity to inspect and adapt at more frequent intervals.

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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. We have multiple Sprints planned, but detailed planning is only currently available for the first Sprint, i.e., Sprint 1. The Sprint 1 Planning event has been completed, and a number of Daily Scrums are also completed.

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The Second Of Four Things You Do To Prevent Value Delivery

Scrum.org

On November 22nd, 2019, I gave the closing keynote at Scrum Deutschland, a talk called ‘The Four Things You Do To Prevent Value Delivery.’ For this reason, many organizations plan these weekends and evenings, using overtime, specialized crew or a rotation of developers. . It was annoying, sure, but something that could be planned for.

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Is Your Agile Project Healthy?

Project Management Essentials

If the product owner is not available to work with the team full-time, then look for second-best options: Assign someone to be responsible for the administrative tasks associated with the product owner role; Establish a regular cadence where the product owner meets with the stakeholders to build and review the product backlog; and.

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Big Rocks moved in 2020

Gunther Verheyen

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. I decided to shift my focus for the rest of 2019 towards writing and supporting several others that were writing.

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