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

Scrum.org

OKRs aim to help you execute effectively on what matters most (your strategy), while overcoming silos, politics and turf wars , the ongoing grind (aka whirlwind ), and other management challenges. And it lends itself to heavy-handed command and control. . Aligned Initiative over Command and Control. What are OKRs even about?

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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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11 Proven Stakeholder Communication Tactics

Scrum.org

Developing empathy for stakeholders is particularly relevant when Engineering and Product don’t have the best standing within the organization at the beginning of an agile transition. There are plenty of opportunities for stakeholders to interact responsibly with a Scrum Team. Sprint Reviews are a zone free from death by PowerPoint.

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

Scrum.org

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. The Product Owner should develop an inspiring vision and a plan to make it happen.

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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. Dev Lane for the main dev activity.

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The Transformation Journey: Lessons Learned

Planview

It can be challenging to expand Agile practices beyond IT and development teams. Executive teams have seen how Agile practices can help organizations gain speed, pivot quickly and effectively when needed, and deliver high-quality outcomes on strategy. Patrick has dubbed this phenomenon “strategy atrophy.”

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Creating a Risk-Adjusted Backlog

Leading Answers

Assessing the chances of loss or gain occur throughout all forms of business and relies on taking an economic view of decision making. I do not think the teams have been weak at threat avoidance. Instead, I believe many projects leave a lot of development team sourced opportunities unactioned.

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