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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. Finally, the outer layer extends to enterprise functions such as Legal, Finance, and HR. Synchronization is achieved through a quarterly 2-day, “big-room planning” event.

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Shift from Annual to Continuous Planning to Enable Agility [Webinar]

Planview

See if this sounds familiar: your organization’s strategic plan is constructed at the executive level, broken down into an annual plan that is led by finance, then operationalized by the PMO and other groups in the organization. Yet, as soon as you begin to figure out exactly how the plan is to be executed, change happens.

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Transformation, Business Architecture, and Scaling

Leading Agile

What do you do with planning cadences? It’s kind of like, the broad arc is methodology and then we have kind of product and business architecture and kind of within product, there’s a specialty that’s starting to emerge around finance and financial management. How do you go up into Portfolio Management?

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Webinar Recap: Agile Series Part 2 – Agile Features & Capabilities in MS Project / Project PPM

MPUG

You’re going to see this coming out at a very fast cadence. But there are people who are building tools, but they remember the competency of what’s being organized, structured and delivered is on a very different cadence. In fact, like I am literally sitting on things that I cannot show you, but guess what?

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The Complete Glossary of 614 Project Management Terms

Workamajig

Projects might additional calendars as well to show resource availability, communication cadence, etc. For example, if you use historical data to deduce the time and money required to construct 1 sqft of a house, you can use it to estimate the cost of building a 2,500 sq ft house.