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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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Minimal measures for minimal stability in a complex environment

Scrum.org

No sustainable agility is achieved. Consider how predictable the listed variables are, how much control you actually have over them and how sure you are that you listed all of them. Even if a parameter is known, the level of detail may be too deep to be able to manage and control it. Think of your work, make a list.

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Is SAFe Agile?

Leading Agile

You have ceremonies and cadences, ways you track progress, techniques for safely writing, testing, and deploying software; and various roles and responsibilities that make up a typical Agile team. It can support rolling wave planning and progressive elaboration of requirements. More planning than SAFe prescribes.

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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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4 Common Misconceptions About Agile Transformation

Leading Agile

That having weekly planning cadences; daily standups, reviews, and retrospectives would give people a reason to get in the same room and collaborate. It feels like Transformation is hard because of command-and-control leaders who don’t want to delegate to or empower the teams. Governance and control. A behavior problem.

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The Transformation Journey: Lessons Learned

Planview

At the same time, our traditional planning processes cannot keep up or sustain us anymore: The annual plan is most on-strategy the day you finish it. Every quarter that goes by, the plan becomes less relevant. It’s difficult to react swiftly to change when your plans and budgets are set in stone.

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Sprint Anti-Patterns

Scrum.org

Every activity required to achieve the Product Goal, such as Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective, occurs within Sprints. Blindly following the original plan violates core Scrum principles.) Often, Developers create tasks an engineer can finish within a day during their planning sessions.