Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 6, 2022

For the purposes of this article, we’re going to assume you’re following the common governance structure of a project board for day-to-day oversight and also a higher-level steering group for executive assurance. It’s fine to have a different cadence at different points in the project lifecycle. Budget position. Action updates.

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Planview

JUNE 1, 2021

Executive teams have seen how Agile practices can help organizations gain speed, pivot quickly and effectively when needed, and deliver high-quality outcomes on strategy. It’s difficult to react swiftly to change when your plans and budgets are set in stone. First, why scale Agile in the first place? Where do you begin?

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Project Bliss

JANUARY 8, 2018

Brief executive summary of the project (high-level summary of the project goals and progress). Project Budget. Report the Project Budget against what you’ve actually spent to date. You can share if the project is on budget, under budget or over budget. Talk with those making purchases.

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Velociteach

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Management Plans The project management plan is created at the beginning of the project and describes how the project will be executed. Budgets, timelines, and agreements are familiar sources. Until we validate them, they are risks. So, we want to document them in an assumptions log and proactively review and address them.

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The IIL Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Management Plans The project management plan is created at the beginning of the project and describes how the project will be executed. Budgets, timelines, and agreements are familiar sources. Until we validate them, they are risks. So, we want to document them in an assumptions log and proactively review and address them.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 6, 2019

Once about four or five key results are determined for each objective, it is the job of an OKR Champion (servant leader) to coach and guide the team in executing on a cadence towards the objectives. For example, an objective may look something like, "Improve the annual Information Technology budget forecast by business line."

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Bridge the Gap Consulting

MAY 16, 2023

Here are three different levels using NFL football as a comparison: Executive Status: This is an easy to read, informative one-page dashboard highlighting business value and achievement against organizational goals. Upper Management: These folks will want to see the executive dashboard and maybe one to two levels below that.

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Agilemania

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Planning and Execution of Program Increment. Planning and Execution of Agile Release Trains. Every ART is a team that consists of multi-functional 50-125 people that commit, plan, and execute in unison. Apply cadence, synchronize with cross-domain planning. Build Incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Cadence and synchronization: Teams should work in fixed iterations, known as sprints, and synchronize their work to deliver a consistent flow of value. This cadence allows for regular feedback and course correction, so that teams stay on track and deliver high-quality results.

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Bridge the Gap Consulting

APRIL 11, 2023

exec level) to authorize and fully support you; the Executive Sponsor. Also, look at communication cadence and means by which to share this information. Financial/Budgeting. Assess the budget and how costs will be tracked. If this is a PMO where travel is required, understand T&E budgets and limitations.

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

For an organisation to achieve its goals, projects chosen for their strategic importance need to be executed successfully, and the key way to ensure this is with project workers who understand the strategic importance of their role and their projects. The rise in project-based work means that project skills are in high demand.

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Agilemania

JANUARY 24, 2022

The cadence of development of multiple teams. In addition, it aligns strategy and execution through Lean Portfolio Management. How do we budget?” . The four Core Values of alignment, built-in quality, transparency, and program execution represent the key fundamental beliefs to SAFe’s effectiveness. How do we plan?”, .

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

From sunk costs, HIPPO-ism, my-budget-my-features to self-fulfilling prophecies?— Apparently, there is a difference in the inspect & adapt cadence when product strategy and Sprint Backlog are compared to each other. Idea is worth nothing; execution is.” How that is supposed to happen is nowhere described in the Scrum Guide.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 30, 2023

A rough estimation of the budget required. The team will establish a Sprint cadence, usually two weeks, in which they will plan, execute, and review their work. Budget: The budget for the transformation should be allocated for the team, for example for training, coaching, and implementation.

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Bridge the Gap Consulting

JULY 21, 2021

These workouts include heavy tension and faster cadence at lower resistance. Then one day, my CIO at the time brought me into a room with the executive team. I learned a lot from him that helped with project budgeting discussions later. It felt good to be finished with the morning workout. Sweat will be drippin’!!

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Wrike

JUNE 15, 2023

Getting granular with work projects is important as you’re often faced with pressure from several sources: Time limits Budget constraints Client expectations Stakeholder opinion Without a measured or considered approach to how you’ll tackle both major and minor projects, the risk of falling prey to pressure from any of these sources increases.

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Wrike

MAY 23, 2023

By having a regular cadence of meetings, the team can stay on track with the project goals and make necessary adjustments along the way. Overall, Agile ceremonies are essential to delivering high-quality code on time and within budget.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Resource Allocation: This gives an overview of the resources allocated to the project, including personnel, equipment, and budget. Examples of key metrics include project progress, budget utilization, resource allocation, and customer satisfaction. Identifying Key Metrics to Track Identify the key metrics you need to track.

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Resource Guru

OCTOBER 18, 2023

This is where resource management software bridges the gap between underusing your agency resources and getting projects done on time and on budget. Streamlined workflows mean projects are executed more efficiently, freeing up team members for more billable work. Monitor these rates to ensure you’re allocating your team wisely.

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Resource Guru

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

This is a critical concern for agency resource managers who are often in charge of budget management. Be sure to touch base with them regularly , at a cadence that makes sense for both parties. While she sees these programs as highly effective when well executed, they can be risky.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 23, 2022

What do you do with planning cadences? You know, it seemed like if you were budgeting something like and again, I’m making this up, it was like maybe six developers, two testers, a project manager, maybe split across a couple teams or something like that. How do you go up into Portfolio Management?

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Wrike

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Project management tools help organizations execute their strategy but they can also be used to manage the portfolio and the various tasks related to that strategy. Complex projects require a phased approach to ensure they meet expectations and budgets. Project management has always been a tool for carrying out goals and managing risk.

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Planio

MARCH 13, 2023

An executive summary of the project’s health 7. When done properly, project status reports can provide a ton of benefits to the people around you - including your team, stakeholders, and executives. timeline, budget, risk) alongside a short update, no more than two sentences. Build your report where your team works 2.

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Digite

AUGUST 17, 2017

While Kanban was meant to be initiated at the middle management level, Enterprise Services Planning is meant for executives and senior management. He highlights this with the adoption path for Kanban cadences (meetings) as to how Kanban is bottom-up and inside-out approach whereas ESP is the top-down and outside-in approach.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 29, 2023

What do we have to do to make Agile tangible for our executives? How do we get our executives to have more confidence than fear in the changes we’re trying to make? Are Executives Getting in the Way of Agile? One of the challenges we face is the perception that executives don’t care about Agile.

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Planio

APRIL 24, 2023

Using the chosen project management process to track progress and budget. Execution & monitoring: With the plan in place, it’s time to start delivering. Testing & handoff: Once the execution is complete, the project manager oversees the testing/quality assurance before launch.

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Velociteach

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

He was like the executive sponsor, our main audience, and he gave us the big picture of what we were trying to accomplish, and everyone just kind of subjugated their expertise to the focus of making this a great project. A Cadence to Managing Projects BILL YATES: Okay. There’s a cadence. There’s a cadence. That’s so good.

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Planview

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Joaquim’s response: The starting point was providing a governance framework that aligns the work of different roles to company objectives, KPIs, and cadence, with a good balance of rigor and flexibility. The report shows scope, benefit, time, and budget and is used in online meetings prior to senior management review.

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Planio

AUGUST 1, 2022

Is your executive team planning sprints and doing user testing? Structure: The focus shifts away from a top-down hierarchy (Executives, SVP, VP, Manager, etc.) Executives and stakeholders need to be aligned and onboard in action and in words. This could include goal-setting exercises or meeting cadence.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 10, 2021

Any software that you create is an organisational asset and decisions to cut quality need to be reflected in your company accounts and as such those decisions need to made by your executive leadership and should not be made by Developers. Professional Developers create working software. Release planning and predictable delivery.

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Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Budget : The sum total of all the money allocated for a project. Budget at Completion (BAC): BAC is the sum total of all budgets established for the work to be performed. Budget Cost: The cost of the project estimated at the start of the project. Note that the budget cost is not the same as the budget.

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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. – So then, now we’ve got shared alignment at the execution level. How do you like fix it? Now it turns out the way you fix it, is you get to be aligned on value. – Yeah. – That comes in with that as well.

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 3, 2023

So I did this with a room full of executives, 50 of the top executives in a pretty large telecom company over there. I told this one executive I worked with that he’d be halfway to his agile transformation if he just stopped approving something over three months and think about that, right? Budgeting and funding matters.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Flawless Execution - Following the Afterburner them, here's how to flawlessly execute a project through the plan of the week. Successful Digital Transformation Starts with a well defined Executable Strategy for Success - PMI San Diego Chapter , 11 July 2018. Making a Seamless Transition Between Vendors, Systems, and Processes.

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Project Management Hacks

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Out of college with a BBA in information technology I started on a help desk providing 2nd and 3rd level support for Cadence, a Silicon Valley software company. This not only brought a spotlight to the projects creating a buzz, it garnered executive management support along with the company’s prestigious IT Innovation Award.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

To prevent the Zombie Scrum or Delivery Trap phenomenon, our operational model keeps planning, execution, and tracking coordinated horizontally across dependent Delivery Teams and vertically through the Portfolio, Program, and Delivery levels. For any approach to “work,” the necessary conditions for success must be in place.

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MPUG

JUNE 1, 2022

The planning, the executing, the monitoring, controlling, and hopefully you’re getting it right and refining and improving until bam, closing. What’s deliverable, cadence, project phase? When we look at the different sections here, what I like is that they talk about delivery cadence and they give a few examples.

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