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

Scrum.org

And it lends itself to heavy-handed command and control. . Aligned Initiative over Command and Control. This looks quite similar to OKR’s predecessor – Management by Objectives ( MBO ) which was very control-oriented. There’s a false dichotomy that many leaders fall for, which is the belief that alignment requires control.

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Everything You Need to Know About Release Managers

Rebel’s Guide to PM

My software projects needed releasing, so we had to follow the formal process and engage with the release manager to make sure that the bug fixes and new features got pushed to the production environment in a controlled way. Key roles and responsibilities of the job. What is the role of a release manager in agile teams?

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Questions to ask a project management mentor

Rebel’s Guide to PM

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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How We Reduced Cycle Time from 164 Days to 8 Days in 6 Months

Scrum.org

This also took decentralizing our deployments from a Change Control team and giving the scrum teams more autonomy over deployments to Dev and QA. CADENCE & RELIABILITY. CADENCE: What was the sprint cadence you folks started off with? What was sustainable cadence after improvements? UAT is part of DOD. .

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Leadership Futures from the Next Generation: Adapting, Empowering, Thriving

The IIL Blog

Hierarchy and traditional leadership stereotypes often from more military inspired, command and control structures, were strictly adhered to. Distinct roles and relationships between people in the workplace existed, with specialists being honoured, and generalists not.

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Project Decision-Making

Velociteach

How do they feel about risk, empowerment, accountability, hierarchy, and control? Hierarchy and control can be formally documented through the organization’s policies, or unstated rules and practices. Deferring or waiting for “management” to decide is an example of informal control. What are these cultures and their attitudes?

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Use MVIs for team improvements

Kiron Bondale

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. To be a valid experiment, certain variables would need to be controlled. But what about changes to the team’s way of working (WoW)?