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Size work to support incremental delivery

Scrum.org

This practice severely affected the team's agility, predictability, visibility, adaptability, risk management, and value delivery. 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.

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Everything You Need to Know About Release Managers

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It’s an essential role… because without her, we risked putting any old thing live and ending up with software conflicts and no process to roll back changes if we messed up. Release managers play an important role in managing risk during the software development process – because no one wants buggy software in prod.

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Creating a Risk-Adjusted Backlog

Leading Answers

This article explains what a risk-adjusted backlog is, why they are useful, how to create one and how teams work with them. What is a Risk-Adjusted Backlog? A risk-adjusted backlog is a backlog that contains activities relating to managing risk in addition to the usual features associated with delivering value.

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Scrum is not an excuse to ignore emergencies

Scrum.org

In some cases, the customer might have a work request that doesn’t warrant risking the value the Sprint Goal will deliver. The cadence of the Sprint is the heartbeat of Scrum, and it runs smoothly and consistently for high-performing teams. But sometimes, the customer can jeopardize the value the Scrum Team is set to deliver.

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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

They let you know whether you can go overspent or what risk mitigation actions are the right ones for this point in the project. It was a much smaller group, and focused on strategic decision making instead of day-to-day problem solving and risk management. Risks and issues. They should help guide you to project success.

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Disciplined Agile & SAFe

International Institute for Learning

To coordinate the teams, SAFe applies cadence and synchronization. Cadence means all teams are aligned to a standard, two-week delivery cycle. The entire ART operates on a common 2-week cadence and begins its 10-week Program Increment (PI) with a 2-day planning event. Visit Alan’s social media links to learn more.

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Mastering the (new) Agile Coaching Mindset for the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR)

International Institute for Learning

Larkland is participating in the panel on Agile at Large Organizations at IIL’s 2022 Agile & Scrum Online Conference. With the constant urgency for solution delivery, there’s a risk that the “tyranny of the urgent” will override opportunities to innovate.