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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.

Cadence 180
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How I transformed “multiple Scrum teams” into “multiple team Scrum”

Scrum.org

Intended audience: Scrum masters, Product owners, Managers and Agile coaches. I advise to start finding one person to be the single Product Owner for all teams. The other “fake PO’s” should be moved inside the development teams as subject matter experts so they can provide detailed requirements. Lack of product focus.

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Unlocking the Power and Mastery of Development Approach and Life Cycle

Project Pulse Journal

This domain facilitates strategic alignment, optimized delivery cadence, methodology customization, increased flexibility, and improved risk management. The desire for a project management framework that sustains deliverability, supports the required cadence, and remains faithful to an adaptable methodology is now within reach.

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Use MVIs for team improvements

Kiron Bondale

But what about changes to the team’s way of working (WoW)? 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. Some of those ideas will be all or nothing.

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11 Proven Stakeholder Communication Tactics

Scrum.org

Run a quick mental exercise: Try walking in your stakeholders’ shoes, and ask yourself: Would you entrust your career a bunch of hoodie-wearing nerds, promising a big reward because they are practicing XP and Scrum? Scrum Events. There are plenty of opportunities for stakeholders to interact responsibly with a Scrum Team.

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Kanban to manage Complex/ Quick Moving Situations

Digite

split across different cities and even countries, though all speak the same language), and getting the know-how under control etc. We are also focusing a lot on automation before starting actual development again because everybody saw what happens when we don’t. Also, we have quite diverse roles in the team (i.e.,

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Do We Need Risk Management in Agile Projects?

MPUG

The style of project management The organization may have a preferred methodology or paradigm, and the project manager (along with their team) will also assess what is right for this project. However, to illustrate with Scrum, let’s consider the Sprint Reviews and Sprint Retrospectives of Scrum.