Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 6, 2022

It’s fine to have a different cadence at different points in the project lifecycle. If you are expecting the project oversight committee to make a decision at the meeting, make sure that they have information in advance of your meeting so that they can review the different options. Action review and next steps. Key decisions.

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International Institute for Learning

APRIL 19, 2023

DA was developed in 2011 by Scott Ambler and Mark Lines and is based on Scott’s work at Rational Software and IBM. To coordinate the teams, SAFe applies cadence and synchronization. Cadence means all teams are aligned to a standard, two-week delivery cycle. They emerged about a decade after the Agile Manifesto.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

As someone teaching SAFe Program Consultants, I try to discuss it in my classes. 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). Well, let's unpack this.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 24, 2019

Business agility is what organizations are looking for; agile software development may be one enabling factor in achieving it, but it isn’t the point of a transformation. Most agile consultants and coaches are unfamiliar with back-end technologies, and they tend to treat them as a mysterious black box. Half-Agile Transformations.

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Leading Answers

MARCH 7, 2019

Consultants will say,  “Oh, it depends…”  and start a lengthy (aka expensive) conversation. Digital projects—which manipulate intangible data and algorithms—have no production phase since the process of turning code into executable software (the process of compiling code) is automated.

Software Review 101

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

As someone teaching SAFe Program Consultants, I try to discuss it in my classes. 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). Well, let's unpack this.

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Planio

AUGUST 9, 2021

What is the best project scheduling software to use? For example, maybe you need to finish cleaning out old code or squash some lingering bugs before building out new features. Ask each person to help estimate their workload, uncover dependencies, and set deadlines for due dates. How do Agile teams create a project schedule?

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Velociteach

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

All the tailoring dimensions and stakeholder needs inform the level of governance, oversight, and management reviews. Acceptable variances, reporting cadence, and status meetings are addressed in the plan. How frequently are the risks and response strategies reviewed? Governance All projects require oversight and governance.

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Planning Technical Review Governance Government 52

Scrum.org

MARCH 11, 2024

Every activity required to achieve the Product Goal, such as Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective, occurs within Sprints. Sprint cancellations without consultation : The Product Owner cancels Sprints without consulting the Scrum Team. Human beings are motivated by short-term gratifications.

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Project Management Essentials

AUGUST 3, 2019

In my agile training and consulting practice, I have witnessed similar symptoms when an organization is struggling with its agile adoption. Poorly coded features may be technically complete, but not acceptable. Create cycles where the product owner periodically reviews the product and provides feedback. Plan for Success.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 20, 2023

How many people are consultants or team members that feel like managers don’t know how to empower their teams? And teams have a cadence where they’re operating with intent but within constraints. Some organizations do operations reviews or bigger retrospectives. So why is it important to empower teams?

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Agile Underperforming Technical Team Cadence SCRUM 62

Herding Cats

APRIL 8, 2017

These systems fall into the Software Intensive System of Systems (SISoS) category. The notion that innovation and engineering - software engineering - are somehow in conflict is common. . In the software engineering domain, like the developer domain, design is the basis of this innovation.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 28, 2022

All the work necessary to achieve the Product Goal, including Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective, happen within Sprints. Sprint cancellations without consultation : The Product Owner cancels Sprints without consulting the Scrum Team. (It Achieving the Sprint Goal is sufficient.).

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Leading Agile

MAY 3, 2023

And you know, we get into clients like that and our consultants get faced with these things all the time where you live in this kind of this weird dichotomy of I know these things must be true to be successful, but the organization doesn’t seem to want to change them. Are we doing reviews? Is there a burn down chart?

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Agile Technical Review Governance Government 62

Velociteach

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This article highlights some common issues I have encountered in my consulting and coaching practice. Since only a third of the features in enterprise software are commonly used, delivering incrementally reduces waste. Teams conform to a 2-week delivery cadence, creating a standard operating rhythm and predictability.

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Velociteach

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Gerald is an IT project management consultant; but he also has two degrees in music and is an accomplished bass guitarist. Combining Jazz and Project Management WENDY GROUNDS: Can you tell us, just as an introduction, how you’ve combined your dual careers as a professional jazz musician and as a project management consultant?

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Digite

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Dave is a Principal Consultant at Depth Consulting Ltd, and Program Director of the KCP Program at the Lean Kanban University. 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. Increments.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 19, 2020

So the first lens or the first set of foundational things that we’re going to talk about when it comes to predictability is the idea of the three things, teams, backlogs, working tested software. They deliver it, they review it with the product owner, product owner says yes, and then they get to claim the points, right?

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Leading Agile

JANUARY 21, 2021

And what we are is we’re a consultancy that’s focused on doing Agile Transformation specifically. So it’s like the ability to form teams, the ability to create clear backlogs the ability to get to a working tested increment of software at the end of every sprint. So we started LeadingAgile about 10 years ago.

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Sustainability Agile SCRUM Technical Review 84

Planio

MARCH 13, 2023

This leaves you at risk of becoming one of the 54% of projects fail that fail due to poor KPI tracking. Check the status of tasks in your current milestone, download Agile charts , or consult your Gantt chart to quickly see (and report) on your progress. Review who receives your updates every so often and add new people as you go.

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Planio

AUGUST 1, 2022

For most development teams and startups, ‘becoming Agile’ starts and ends with how you build software. According to research published in Harvard Business Review , nearly 90% of companies struggle to complete Agile transformations — even after successful pilot projects. But unfortunately, few companies can pull it off.

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Wrike

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

It is especially useful in software development and enterprise product management as these teams tackle projects and programs on extended timelines with continuous improvements, upgrades, and iterations released and delivered to customers over time. What is the Scaled Agile Framework?

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MPUG

MAY 18, 2022

You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. For those of you who are PMPs, your activity code today is on the screen. Lewis’ and James Mills JR.’s You may watch the recording of this webinar at your convenience.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 31, 2020

You get super clear backlogs, you find out what the real cadences you’ve finished work that you start. And that was based on some work I’d done, as a consultant several years ago the company was acquiring a bunch of other like power companies, and we were doing capability modeling. How do you like fix it? – Yeah.

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 3, 2023

And so we ended up with a lot of folks doing standups and sprint planning and story cards and sticky notes and burndown charts and reviews and retrospectives. And so I was thinking about Scrum and so I just lifted this off of Mike Cone’s website and it’s attributed, so I hope he doesn’t mind too much mountain good software.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 17, 2021

And so I’m looking at like all these people that were trying to adopt Scrum and what they were missing was this idea that if we can’t form complete cross-functional teams, giving them really super clear backlogs and give them the ability to produce a working passive increment of software at the end of every sprint, then it would fail.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

It’s time now to move forward to the next level of proficiency in software delivery; what we might call “post-Agile.” When agile consultants advise organizations to form small teams, the problem worsens. How can the same principle be a good idea in 2002 and a bad idea in 2019? What has changed?

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Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Activity ID: An alphanumeric code used to identify an activity. The agile approach is usually used in software projects where the scope is not always known and adaptability is prioritized. Projects might additional calendars as well to show resource availability, communication cadence, etc.

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MPUG

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. This session is eligible for 1 PMI PDU in the strategic category, and the MPUG activity code for claiming the session is on the screen now. a lot of my work.

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MPUG

OCTOBER 16, 2019

You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. And today’s session is eligible for one PMI PDU in the technical category, and the code for claim that is on the screen now, that’s mpugwebnlearn091819.

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Project Management Hacks

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Out of college with a BBA in information technology I started on a help desk providing 2nd and 3rd level support for Cadence, a Silicon Valley software company. An Agile approach wins every time in these situations due to its inherent flexibility and delivery focus. I have a deep history in project management.

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MPUG

JANUARY 30, 2020

You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. The MPUG activity code for claiming this session is on the screen now. The other answer is actually a cheap consultant’s trick. So, that’s one answer.

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