Herding Cats

JULY 12, 2017

So do we pick a Capabilities Release or a Cadence Release? Cadence release puts value out on a periodic basis. Those capabilities don't always show up in the Cadence, but that's a separate issue as well. . For the Cadence Release, we need an estimate (with accuracy and precision) of the probability of showing up with needed Features on the needed Date. Business runs on deadlines and milestones for a simple reason - Time is Money.

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Hydra

JANUARY 9, 2018

How to use a Business Cadence to promote collaboration and start your year with the right rhythm

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Digite

AUGUST 21, 2017

In 2015, in a blog post called Kanban Cadences , David Anderson laid out a set of 7 Kanban cadences or meetings that provide comprehensive opportunities for feedback, planning, and review in an enterprise. These are based on our own experience using Kanban for our own product development as well as that of many of our customers who have implemented this critical cadence. Lean/ Kanban agile Kanban Kanban board kanban cadences Lean Replenishment Meeting

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Digite

AUGUST 17, 2017

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. We also anticipate the adoption of the Kanban Cadences to be different. This diagram shows the anticipated adoption sequence of Kanban Cadence meetings during an ESP initiative. Lean/ Kanban Uncategorized agile Enterprise Kanban enterprise se Kanban Kanban board kanban cadences Lean

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Project Risk Coach

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Notice the cadence, pauses, and the repetitions in the speech. Project managers spend a large part of each day communicating—facilitating meetings, emailing stakeholders, responding to texts, writing reports, and having one-on-one conversations.

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Musings on Project Management

APRIL 2, 2016

One of the Agile paradigm shifts from the "way we've always done it" is to shift release planning to either fixed calendar points -- at the end of one or more sprints, but typically three or more -- or when capability needed by the business is "done" In an interesting posting, here, the first idea is given the moniker "cadence release"; the latter "capabilities release".

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The Lazy Project Manager

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Setting up a consistent cadence for feedback can reassure both the employee and team manager that the best work is being produced.

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Kiron Bondale

MAY 26, 2019

For those teams which use an iteration-based cadence for their delivery such as those who have implemented the Scrum framework there have multiple feedback loops to help them improve. When I teach agile fundamentals classes, I frequently emphasize the importance of inspection and adaptation. Teams which don’t use feedback loops with their products and their processes should not consider themselves to be very agile.

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Kiron Bondale

DECEMBER 2, 2018

The Scrum Guide calls sprints the heart of Scrum as these time boxes set the cadence for all other events. We hope that by conducting effective ceremonies we will achieve the agile trinity of improved value delivery, better quality and more fun. But these objectives might be reached via multiple paths so we might not be able to prove causality between our ceremonies and those objectives.

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Digite

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

In this article, he outlines the similarities of the two as WIP Limiting, Pull-based systems – with cadences and a focus on learning – while also explaining their differences. Cadences. Scrum prescribes a cadence and that all activities happen within that timebox. If you didn’t guess, this cadence is called the sprint duration. In the Kanban Method, cadences are just as important as they are in Scrum. This also includes cadences. Introduction.

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Kiron Bondale

MARCH 15, 2020

At the start of the project, if the product owner and team members know that key product content decisions will have to be made by senior management, then they might plan accordingly by having regularly scheduled reviews with senior leaders to build a cadence for decision making. The product owner role is extremely challenging for most organizations to fill. It is also the role which has the greatest impact on achieving expected delivery outcomes.

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Planio

JANUARY 11, 2021

Timing and team cadence: Decouple team cadences whenever possible. Timing and team cadence: Decouple team cadences whenever possible. Agile teams rely on a clear sprint cadence to keep projects moving, remove bottlenecks, and ship great software.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 5, 2021

CADENCE & RELIABILITY. CADENCE: What was the sprint cadence you folks started off with? What was sustainable cadence after improvements? BACKGROUND.

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Kiron Bondale

JULY 21, 2019

Whether these loops follow a fixed cadence (e.g. It is easy to say that demonstrating behaviors consistent with the values and principles of the Manifesto is proof of agility but this test leaves significant wiggle room for interpretation and for exception cases which fall through the cracks of the four values and twelve principles.

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Kiron Bondale

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

The specific cadence varies based on the complexity and duration of a transformation. According to John Kotter’s model for leading change, the first step to overcoming inertia requires us to instill a sense of true urgency in those we need to support, implement and sustain the change.

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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.  Dolphins are easier to track than submarines. They surface more often and are usually within view of where you last saw them.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 22, 2018

Let’s say that on average stakeholders request a couple of large items, a couple of medium-sized ones, and five small ones in any given cadence, iteration, release, or whatever unit of time your organization uses for such matters. Let’s say you’re using a two-week cadence, as that’s pretty typical and is what most agile coaches recommend as a starting point. In a typical cadence, stakeholders ask you to complete 12.5

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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. 5 questions and answers from an on-demand webinar with Santander UK.

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Project Bliss

AUGUST 19, 2018

Speed or cadence. Cadence is how fast or slow you talk. You’re hopefully choosing your words carefully and crafting the message you want others to take away. But words alone aren’t enough. Your paraverbal communication plays a big role in how your audience sees you. It’s important to consider this facet of your communication when speaking to your audience, no matter the size.

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Kiron Bondale

AUGUST 6, 2017

Things to consider when faced with such a hybrid project are: Orchestrating delivery cadence from each work stream to ensure that consuming work streams are not incurring prolonged delays in receiving components from providing ones.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 7, 2016

Cadence Release - when a fixed period ends, go with what is ready to go. Cadence Release paradigm, is a flow-based approach. The variability of the development work is minimized through the planned cadence. Focusing on meeting the needs of the customer or market is key to success in the Cadence approach. Success of the Cadence approach relies on: Schedule margin is needed to protect the deliverables.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 14, 2021

The Nexus Sprint Review and the System Demo are similar events happening on a similar cadence - every several weeks (Sprint/Iteration). Nexus Sprint Goal - Program PI Objectives - just at different cadence/frequency. Adjust Cadences and level of participation.

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Kiron Bondale

DECEMBER 17, 2017

The specific frequency of these re-forecasts is context-specific, but a minimum cadence should be established at the portfolio level to support normal portfolio monitoring and reporting practices. Benefits management, like project risk management, is practiced poorly by most organizations.

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Kiron Bondale

DECEMBER 18, 2016

But when planning a product release which cannot be delivered by a single pod within a reasonable amount of time, we need to structure the work across multiple pods of five to a dozen team members working in parallel but also orchestrating release cadence and work item priority based on the dependencies between work streams. A good practice with agile delivery is to keep team sizes small to reduce the number of communication channels.

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Kiron Bondale

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

Frequent identification – either on a fixed cadence such as in a sprint ending retrospective or just-in-time based on a team’s recognition that there is something of value to be captured and shared. In a recent role, I had the opportunity to review the lessons submitted by teams running large, complex projects and programs and found that over 90% of what was being captured and shared was of low or no value.

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Project Risk Coach

MAY 15, 2017

Notice the cadence, pauses, and the repetitions in the speech. Project managers spend a large part of each day communicating—facilitating meetings, emailing stakeholders, responding to texts, writing reports, and having one-on-one conversations. We are so busy, we rarely take the time to think about the effectiveness of our communication. How can we become a better communicator? Here are five practical ways. Pick one or two and work on improving your communication this week.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 26, 2019

When you learn how to do SAFe and you learn all the stuff about SAFe, all the different roles and cadences and things like that, you are learning a System of Delivery. Agile was designed to work in a particular organizational context. It was designed for a certain kind of team structure. It was designed for a certain kind of governance. It was designed for a certain kind of organizational ecosystem.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 10, 2021

Since Professional Scrum Teams build software that works , stop, create a working increment of software that meets your definition of done (DoD), and then start Sprinting, and review what you mean by “working” continuously, and at least on a regular cadence.

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Digite

MAY 26, 2017

Program Increments (PIs) provide a development timebox (default 10 weeks) that uses cadence and synchronization to facilitate planning, limiting WIP, provide for aggregation of value and assure consistent retrospectives. The Agile Release Train provides alignment and helps manage risk by providing program level cadence and synchronization. The concept of Agile Release Train is central to understanding the constructs of SAFe and to implement them. So, what is an ART?

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Kiron Bondale

JANUARY 8, 2017

DO send meeting invitations well in advance and if you are following a standard sprint or iteration cadence (e.g. Demos, or showcases as they are sometimes called, are a critical ceremony when they are run effectively as they address multiple project delivery objectives in a single event including: Validating that what the team has completed to date is valuable from the perspective of their customer and other key stakeholders.

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Kiron Bondale

OCTOBER 23, 2016

There’s no reason a savvy project manager couldn’t attempt to create such opportunities on a traditional project, but it might be challenging to match the natural feel and cadence of showcases and similar ceremonies. When we read about the rationale for an agile approach to project delivery, the focus is often on the benefits realized by the company or by their customers.

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Henny Portman

MAY 30, 2019

Delivering teams deliver on the market cadence (agile sustainability). The Agile Fluency model, developed by Diana Larsen and James Shore in 2012 and substantially updated in 2018, is a framework to help teams understand their current position and to help them develop an individual road map. Agile teams pass through four distinct zones of fluency as they learn ( fluency evolves). Diana Larsen defines fluency as things that you do automatically without thinking.

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Workamajig

MARCH 25, 2020

Great remote teams have the same cadences as their real-world counterparts. While working from home can make some people productive, it can also impact collaboration and the natural cadence of communication. Virtual team building activities can help you build more collaborative teams. Try these 10 remote team building activities as a start. Remote work is the future of work. You might have arrived at this conclusion by your own volition.

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Brad Egeland

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Make the most of these meetings by organizing a regular structure or cadence to them, or even by bringing an agenda — but make sure you don’t neglect to include time for morale building. Strong teamwork is important in producing great work at a productive pace.

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Leading Agile

MAY 12, 2020

Teams delivering on a predictable cadence earn the trust of the business. Hold Teams, as well as overall organization, accountable for producing a working tested increment of product on a regular cadence. Here are some fun facts: The first company founded to provide software products and services was Computer Usage Company in 1955.

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Henny Portman

MARCH 16, 2020

Rhythmic learning – learn through a cadence of recurring interaction moments. There are now teams that are able to install kitchens very quickly in a fixed cadence, with a lot of satisfied customers and a happy large shareholder as a result. Jurriaan Kamer and Rini van Solingen are the authors of Formula X – How to reach extreme acceleration in your organization?

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Gunther Verheyen

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

I organize my work on a weekly cadence. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” generally attributed to George Bernard Shaw). I call myself an independent Scrum Caretaker. It reflects who I am, how I feel, what I do: caring for Scrum AND caring for people.

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Leading Answers

JANUARY 16, 2021

Fortunately, the cadence of iterations and events such as retrospectives and sprint planning provides all the occasions we need to keep the process going. This article explains what a risk-adjusted backlog is, why they are useful, how to create one and how teams work with them.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 24, 2019

Front-end applications based on technologies that easily lend themselves to agile practices (mobile, web, application server, lightweight databases, API client code, UIs and similar technologies hosting applications developed in languages like C#, Java, Python, Ruby, and PHP) can be modified and deployed smoothly with high frequency, while the back-end resources on which they depend are still delivered on the “old” cadence. A Metaphorical Journey.

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MPUG

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In an Agile PMO setting, the product backlog is executed over a number of iterations or with a flow-based cadence in order to move towards the vision or goal of the product. Imagine this scenario as you start-off your day: You open your business site and the message says: “it doesn’t exist.” You then try to login to your email account, which also displays the same message. Your heartbeat goes up and you rub your eyes in disbelief.

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