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The Complete Guide to Scaling Agile and SAFe for Business Agility

Agilemania

The cadence of development of multiple teams. How do we budget?” . The principles are intended to influence the decisions of leaders and managers and everyone in the organization and condition their mindset to shift from traditional waterfall thinking to lean-agile thinking, where practices like Lean Portfolio Management are applied.

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Transformation, Business Architecture, and Scaling

Leading Agile

What do you do with planning cadences? You either change the tool to accommodate the organization or you change the organization and unfortunately, most of the companies that we were dealing with, didn’t have agency or influence to change the organization. How do you go up into Portfolio Management?

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Agency utilization rate: 9 steps to increasing billable time

Resource Guru

Read: How to find the best resource planning tool Factors impacting agency utilization rates Agency utilization rates are influenced by many internal and external factors. A rising, sustainable rate might signal it’s time to outsource work, hire more staff, or expand services. As a result, it’ll keep utilization rates high.

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Overview of the PMBOK® Guide Seventh Edition – Lesson 3 Transcription

MPUG

But do they hold the power and influence? The number, the turnover, the influence, the power and interest. And so the turnover, the influence of power and the interest is definitely something to be considered. Especially also with stakeholders who have a strong influence but are prone to change their mind.

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Selling Agile to the C-Suite to Get Buy-In

Leading Agile

Organizations need to move at market speeds sustainably, and that pace is getting faster and faster. Let me ask, are you all familiar with the ladder of influence? If we can establish a connection between our efforts and incremental, iterative market sensing, and sustainable adaptation, we stand a chance.

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Agile Unplugged: EP 02 | Mike Cottmeyer and Dennis Stevens

Leading Agile

You get super clear backlogs, you find out what the real cadences you’ve finished work that you start. – Yeah, I’m not able, I don’t have enough influence or control, I don’t know, I think the real answer is, I don’t know how to exploit this new engine. How do you like fix it? – Yeah.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Surviving the Matrix Organization , The common picture of the project manager in a matrixed organization is of a frustrated diplomat struggling to cajole the functional departments into performing the work on schedule and within budget. IMP/EVM World Workshop Materials. Project and Program Management Symposium, Canberra, Australia, 2018.