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To Fix Your OKRs – Go Back to First (Familiar) Principles

Scrum.org

Figuring out the right Cadence . It’s all about finding the “goldilocks” cadence that provides frequent enough transparency and the opportunity to inspect and adapt at the right level. There can be a different cadence for everyone involved in achieving an OKR as compared to the cadence involving all stakeholders interested in that OKR.

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Benefits of the Sprint Timebox

Scrum.org

Predictable Progress: The regular cadence of Sprints provides a predictable schedule for delivering increments of work, enhancing transparency and trust with stakeholders. Conclusion The Sprint timebox in Scrum is a powerful tool that creates a sense of urgency, driving teams to deliver consistent, high-quality results.

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The Rhythmic Dance of Agile with Cadence

Management Yogi

Odissi (pronounced o-dee-shee) is one of the classical dances of India from the coastal state of Odisha. Based on archeological evidence, it’s possibly the oldest living classical Indian dance. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US, notes in its web-archives that Odissi is two to three thousand years old.

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Everything You Need to Know About Release Managers

Rebel’s Guide to PM

We had a fortnightly release (and therefore a giant scrabble to try to get your changes in before the cut-off and presented to the CAB in time), but your company might have monthly releases or use a different cadence. Key roles and responsibilities of the job. The role involves planning the release scope (the contents of what’s going in).

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Capabilities Release or Cadence Release

Herding Cats

So do we pick a Capabilities Release or a Cadence Release? Cadence release puts value out on a periodic basis. 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. . Capabilities release provides the answer to Early and Often.

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Why Kanban Might Not Be a Good Fit for Your Scrum Team (Yet)

Scrum.org

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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All technical debt is a risk to the product and to your business

Scrum.org

This commercial product was built using traditional project management practices and delivered on a two-yearly cadence. On a two-yearly cadence, it takes four years to deliver on feature requests. From 2005 (first beta) until 2012 they worked, successfully delivering a new version every 2 years. TFS was delivered on a 2-year cycle.