Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 6, 2022

Strong leadership in projects is important for success, so getting your project board and/or project steering group set up as soon as you can is a good start. For example, on one project, I had the CFO steering group, and attendees were all SLT (senior leadership team members). Of course, the project manager should attend too.

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Velociteach

MARCH 6, 2024

Strategic initiatives have higher visibility and require greater leadership engagement than a small maintenance project. A Harvard Business Review article described the RAPID model , which can provide a sound starting point: Recommend. Understand the Project Context Projects support the organization’s mission and goals.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 14, 2023

Delivering Other organizations require the minimal defects and high productivity that allows them to ship on cadence and receive the market boost that comes from consistently Delivering when the market demands. We have reviewed those ideas in an article on Team Topologies and highlighted some serious drawbacks of such an org design.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 11, 2022

In this article, I’ll explain what a strategic planning meeting can cover and share a sample agenda you can customize for your strategy sessions. There’s no fixed cadence for strategy conversations. Think about what you are meeting for and what the leadership teams are expecting to get out of it.

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The IIL Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

This rhythm of exertion and recovery resonates deeply with the cadence of leadership in business. As the year winds down, let’s take a moment to reflect on our approach to leadership. The memories of training came flooding back: the early mornings, long roads, discipline, and above all, the invaluable rest days. Sign up here!

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International Institute for Learning

APRIL 19, 2023

Each has a “big picture” (see: DA , SAFe ) describing its components with links to detailed knowledge articles. To coordinate the teams, SAFe applies cadence and synchronization. Cadence means all teams are aligned to a standard, two-week delivery cycle. Without strong leadership support and commitment, change efforts fail.

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The IIL Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Does the item need to be escalated to leadership or other parts of the organization? In 2016, Alan founded Project Management Essentials to share his passion for and experience in project management, leadership, and Agile. He authors monthly articles, is regularly quoted in the industry press, and is a podcast guest.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 8, 2023

The question we ask ourselves in this article is, "To what extent is Kniberg's graph still relevant to improving the performance of large-scale agile team collaboration?". Instead, by sharing the same Sprint cadence and Goal, they will see opportunities for collaboration. Alignment on the work is done by the people doing the work.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Shall I notify you about articles like this one? To help with inspection, Scrum provides cadence in the form of its five events.”. The answer to that question is feeding a whole industry; think servant leadership, radical candor, or psychological safety, to name a few. Inspection enables adaptation. Source : Scrum Guide 2020.

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Inloox

JULY 1, 2021

Lean Agile Leadership: Managers are the very core of lean agile development and business agility. These capabilities support each other and create opportunities for sustained leadership in the marketplace and services. These fixed, i.e. unalterable, ten principles aim to influence leadership behavior and decision making.

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Velociteach

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Does the item need to be escalated to leadership or other parts of the organization? Have events impacted the current prioritization, assessment, or planned response? Is this item becoming critical to the project’s success? Are there new items? The frequency, method, and level of detail will depend on the stakeholder group.

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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. Delivery cadence considers if your project has one main deliverable or can be decomposed into multiple smaller deliverables. Delivery cadence. How do you know which approach to use? Bulletin Board. Innovation.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

In this article, we will explore the concept of Safe Scrum, its impact on team performance, how to implement it in your team, how to measure its success, and future trends in Safe Scrum practices. This cadence allows for regular feedback and course correction, so that teams stay on track and deliver high-quality results.

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MPUG

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The project manager and the organization’s leadership must create the environment. Erato reminds us of the importance of emotional intelligence in leadership. The project will have a pace, sometimes a swift cadence, and sometimes a variety of paces, sometimes fast and sometimes slower. That is not how it works.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 30, 2023

This article is another excursion into this nascent yet fascinating new technology of generative AI and LLMs and the future of knowledge work. Shall I notify you about articles like this one? What would you suggest to the leadership of that organization to help the change effort? Your share price has fallen by 50 %.

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Velociteach

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This article presents a framework for modeling project context and considerations for tailoring. Acceptable variances, reporting cadence, and status meetings are addressed in the plan. Traditional projects tend toward command-and-control approaches, while agile embraces servant leadership practices.

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nTask

OCTOBER 7, 2021

With remote and on-site workers coexisting, the leadership has to suffer a lot to maintain balance. The management team has to put in efforts, reshape their behavior, and their leadership style to run the organization smoothly. However, the leadership should communicate the schedule with the staff beforehand to avert any loopholes.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 20, 2023

When you look at the literature that’s out there, I was reading an article recently about empowering teams, and the very first line in the step of the five steps for how to empower your teams was “manage your teams in an empowered way.” I’m a huge advocate of servant leadership and taking care of your teams.

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Project Bliss

JANUARY 5, 2021

It’s not only import to your project, it’s a great way to showcase your leadership skills. If leadership is sharing sensitive information that could negatively impact morale, it helps to deliver it in person. This article can help: Improve Your Meetings with This One Simple Step. Follow these guidelines to avoid this mistake.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

And now in these four articles. Some time ago, I was teaching a Professional Agile Leadership class. The market hasn’t slowed down, so new insights emerge over time, but the multi-month cadence resulting from the teams’ interconnectedness means that their course can only be minutely adjusted.

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Leading Agile

MAY 3, 2023

The roles, the ceremonies, the artifacts, the cadences, all those different things that we model as implementation details. However, this is not always the case, even when leadership teams are fully committed to Agile. It happened with RUP, it happens with SAFe, it happens with Scrum, it happens with everything.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 11, 2024

This article covers the three Scrum accountabilities (formerly roles) and addresses interferences of stakeholders and IT/line management with this crucial Scrum event. Shall I notify you about articles like this one? The Article Sprint Anti-Patterns was first published on Age-of-Product.com.

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MPUG

DECEMBER 28, 2020

In this article, I’ll outline the top changes and the deeper meaning associated with each change. Introduction of Cadence. For the first time, we are introduced of a concept called “Cadence.” In Scrum, the cadence is provided in the form of five events: Sprint – the container event. Lean Thinking.

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Velociteach

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This article highlights some common issues I have encountered in my consulting and coaching practice. Teams conform to a 2-week delivery cadence, creating a standard operating rhythm and predictability. We should not blame Agile for bad Agile. The problem is not with the values, principles, and practices.

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Leading Answers

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

It is this predictable cadence of show-and-tell sessions that creates the dolphins-versus-submarines comparison.    [Note: For more articles from Mike Griffiths, visit his blog at  www.LeadingAnswers.com. Mike first wrote this article for ProjectManagement.com  here.].

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Scrum.org

MARCH 28, 2022

Welcome to the Sprint anti-patterns article from my series on Scrum anti-patterns, covering the three Scrum roles—pardon me: accountabilities—and addressing the contributions of stakeholders and the IT/line management. Shall I notify you about articles like this one? Moreover, I add some food for thought.

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Wrike

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

In this article, we discuss all you need to know about SAFe : what it is, its core principles, and its four main levels. Synchronized cadence: SAFe Agile uses a consistent rhythm of work called cadence , which includes standard Agile events such as sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 31, 2020

You get super clear backlogs, you find out what the real cadences you’ve finished work that you start. And so like in some of the early I think it was maybe it was Merrifield book rework or maybe it came from your HBR article I can’t remember. How do you like fix it? – Yeah. – It’s not a capability.

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MPUG

MAY 18, 2022

If you’re brand new to Agile, there is an updated article I did, Intro to Agile Project Management. Procedures, 77%; leadership, 73% and software, 27%. ” And then you’re having that cadence that fast, but not frantic cadence of getting things done, communicating, continuing. That’s coming soon.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 5, 2017

Related articles. Herding Cats: Capabilities Release or Cadence Release. Herding Cats: Capabilities Release or Cadence Release. Herding Cats: Three Leadership Tips from Jack Sparow. Making Conjectures Without Testable Outcomes. Why Guessing is not Estimating and Estimating is not Guessing.

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MPUG

JANUARY 30, 2020

Today’s session is eligible for one PMI PDU in the leadership category. Somebody stopped him, gave him that little shard of advice, and the reason I know this is because if you listen to the way he presents, if you listen to his cadence and the cadence of his speech, what you discover is, oh, my gosh, he’s pausing a lot.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Ron Jeffries’ classic article, “We Tried Baseball and it Didn’t Work” , is an amusing and yet chillingly accurate description of this situation. Even top leadership cannot articulate a short list of key strategic business capabilities the organization needs to cultivate.

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MPUG

JUNE 1, 2022

When we’re talking about that, we’re looking at those involved in the project building and maintaining a strong sense of shared ownership, growing a high performing team, demonstrating applicable leadership and other interpersonal skills within all team members. Project team management and leadership. So it depends, right?

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