Project Risk Coach

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Notice the cadence, pauses, and the repetitions in the speech. Take note of his quotes such as, “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” And who hasn’t heard Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech? Lastly, YouTube provides a library of great speakers and speeches.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 6, 2025

But Scrum requires that the team is capable of taking new functionality into the hands of end users on a frequent cadence — in cycles not longer than one month, often much shorter. Frequent delivery – Most enterprises are not configured to interact with end users in short cycles and are not technically capable of frequent delivery.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Techniques such as a cadence of retrospectives work well to help teams improve their processes, teamwork, and overall outcomes. Even deterministic teams benefit from an inspection and adaptation loop for their working methods.

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Technical Review Cadence Agile Innovation 182

Scrum.org

APRIL 14, 2025

Whether the team estimates work using story points or simply tracks the number of Product Backlog items delivered per Sprint, they establish a natural cadence for what they can reliably complete. It may be tempting to push the team to deliver more by overloading the Sprint with extra work. But dont do it!

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 22, 2024

Transformation is an investment, and the results of that investment need to be communicated on a regular cadence. Demonstrating success quickly builds trust with executives who will become more willing to continue to invest gradually expanding the scope of the transformation.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 2, 2024

They will now review these indicators for each initiative on a cadence to decide whether to continue investing, pivot, or stop altogether. They decide to apply the concept of outcome hypothesis with leading indicators to business initiatives, even though they aren’t strictly “products.”

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Scrum.org

MAY 7, 2025

Scrums time-boxes (Sprints) provide a cadence for solution development, during which the team iteratively builds, tests and refines its work. Scrum brings cadence, accountability and adaptability to delivery. As the team converges on a Sprint Goal and selects PBIs, the second diamond begins to take shape.

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Innovation SCRUM Cadence Technical Review 122

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 1, 2024

This could include the provision of meetings with the right attendees at a regular cadence such as team retrospectives, service delivery reviews and operations reviews. As such, an important policy is for a team and the wider organisation to have policies for reviewing their policies at all levels of the organisation.

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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. While physically apart from one another, it can be hard for team members to know whether or not they are producing sufficient and high-quality work.

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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? To shorten the feedback loop and reduce risk, our business stakeholders are part of our Scrum team and conduct UAT inside the Sprint. UAT is part of DOD. .

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nTask

OCTOBER 5, 2021

To many of the fans of project management out there in the market, these rhythms are known as Kanban cadences. What are Kanban Cadences? To learn about Kanban cadences, you need to know about cadences first. The latter is the closest to what we can say for certain that Kanban cadences relate to.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 15, 2021

The best way to prevent this from happening is by setting a cadence for meetings, requiring status reports , scheduling interdepartmental collaboration time and any number of other ideas. Otherwise, the team will begin to feel like multiple, independent departments working toward different goals.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 22, 2021

Here are the top communication skills for project managers: Active listening: really hearing what people are saying in the room Consistency: follow through when you say you will and create a cadence for the team Clarity: use short sentences and jargon-free language in your communications Accessibility: make sure comms are delivered in a format that (..)

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 10, 2022

Either way, report EAC monthly or to your normal project management reporting cadence, so you can spot trends and identify issues before they become too significant. I get that SPI and CPI are difficult to work out manually, but the other two EAC formulas don’t use performance indices, so you should be good to work those out by hand.

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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.

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Scrum.org

MAY 5, 2025

Each Sprint delivered completed recipe cards, ingredient lists, and professionally photographed mealsall production-ready assets.

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Technical Review SCRUM Software Review Cadence 112

Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

At regular meetings You’ll find a regular cadence and probably settle into a regular agenda or routine with the check in sessions. The first meeting is likely to be all about getting to know each other, creating rapport and setting the intention going forward. Here are some sample questions you can use to keep the conversation moving.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Running the survey on a regular cadence helps the organization understand whether the changes they are introducing are having an impact (positive or negative) on their employees overall level of engagement. .

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 11, 2022

There’s no fixed cadence for strategy conversations. What goes into your meeting (and therefore, your agenda) will very much depend on where you are in the strategy planning cycle. When do strategic meetings happen? Some businesses use quarterly meetings. Some might do a lot of planning during the existing structure of board meetings.

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Kiron Bondale

APRIL 18, 2021

Whether your team sets a regular cadence for external product reviews or they are conducted on a just-in-time basis, it is important to get actionable feedback. But conducting a review is not just a matter of bringing people together.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 22, 2024

Reduces Predictability When Scrum teams work together, they develop a cadence of value delivery. Scrum teams thrive on developing a predictable cadence of value delivery. The iterative feedback loop is disrupted, hindering the essence of Agile development. This reduces transparency and trust.

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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. Each agile framework provides its own ceremonies but given that Scrum is still the most commonly referenced one, let’s focus on that framework’s events.

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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. 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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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 3, 2023

And yet, the Sprint serves a pivotal role in Scrum by setting the cadence for feedback, inspection and adaptation in Scrum. However, it's crucial to recognize that the Sprint sets the cadence for all of the other events. In fact, many people don’t even realize that it is an event in Scrum. There’s no meeting for “The Sprint”, you see.

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Project Bliss

JUNE 19, 2017

By meeting at the same time, your team gets into a regular cadence. Identify the cadence or milestones that trigger a group self-assessment. Take time zones into account and find a time that works for everyone as best as possible. Have the Scrum Meeting at the Same Time Each Day. It becomes standard practice for your team. Conclusion.

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Kiron Bondale

JULY 25, 2021

Whether a team uses a scheduled cadence for reviewing their WoW such as the use of retrospectives in Scrum, or they use a just-in-time approach they will come up with improvement ideas. But what about changes to the team’s way of working (WoW)? Some of those ideas will be all or nothing.

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Software Review Cadence Development Team Review Risk Management 207

Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

SAFe has a cadence at the Team and Program levels. The team-level cadence is called Iterations but other than that different name is almost identical to the Scrum Sprint. (See a recent blog post I wrote about this). SAFe's Sprints are 3 months long and are planned in detail - How is that Agile? Well, let's unpack this.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

Embedding OKRs into Scrum's Inspect/Adapt Cadence. It reinforces that the focus for executives is to provide teams with a clear, realistic, audatious goal that has a measurable, tangible impact that will drive improved performance for both stakeholders as well as the teams. . Evolving the Sprint Review to inspect OKR metrics.

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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. What is a Definition of Done (DoD). Growing your Definition of Done (DoD).

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Right-sizing in Agile refers to the practice of customizing the size of work items in your backlog to match their inherent complexity and effort required to the time interval of your cadence. Ideal size comes into play with work items being too BIG and too SMALL.

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Scrum.org

MAY 16, 2024

They study and do the work in a shared cadence (Sprint). A team of teams works in a single cadence (sprint), meaning they refine, plan, and deliver the work synchronously. Combining a single business-level backlog with teams of teams creates the opportunity for teams to abandon the isolation of their team-level Sprints.

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Musings on Project Management

APRIL 2, 2016

The recommendation of.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

They are accountable for delivering done working products every cadence and satisfy customer needs. People's responsibility doesn’t end only on building things. Professionals are accountable for the work they do and accountable for success.

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Scrum.org

MAY 25, 2024

If your team is struggling with basic Scrum elements like sprint cadence, empiricism, and delivering Done increment, adding Kanban’s work-in-progress (WIP) limits, cycle times, and throughput metrics can overwhelm your team and dilute the focus.

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LiquidPlanner

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

You create a delivery cadence Timeboxing in agile is a way of wrapping up work into a clearly defined iteration (or sprint). This creates a cadence for continuous delivery: there are new features released at the end of every iteration. Everyone knows what deadline they are working towards and what’s expected in that time.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 6, 2022

It’s fine to have a different cadence at different points in the project lifecycle. You can always change the frequency of meetings once the project is up and running and you know how much assurance is going to be applicable. When to hold the meetings.

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Government Governance Technical Review Risk Management 457

Scrum.org

JANUARY 4, 2022

The duration of the Sprint is timeboxed to a maximum of one month, establishing a cadence within which the Scrum team works together to deliver value. It is a container event, which means that it contains all other events, including Sprint Planning, the Daily Scrum, the Sprint Retrospective, and the Sprint Review.

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