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

Scrum.org

As defined by WhatMatters.com : OKRs – an Alignment Framework – a collaborative goal-setting methodology used by teams and individuals to set challenging, ambitious goals with measurable results. It’s much easier to define an OKR for everything – and then when everything is important, nothing is really important.

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

Scrum.org

How do we define “cycle time” in our context? In my opinion, I would first look for defining characteristics in a PO. CADENCE & RELIABILITY. CADENCE: What was the sprint cadence you folks started off with? What was sustainable cadence after improvements? Some key topics that we covered in the webinar were….

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How to Assemble a Project Team

ProjectManager.com

Regardless of the organizational structure you choose, this entails setting up rules and procedures, defining expectations and establishing communication. If these things aren’t clearly defined before the project begins, they’ll inevitably lead to trouble down the road. Related: Free Team Charter Template.

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System of Transformation Defined

Leading Agile

When you learn how to do SAFe and you learn all the stuff about SAFe, all the different roles and cadences and things like that, you are learning a System of Delivery. So, when you guys go to Scrum class and you learn how to do Scrum, you are learning a System of Delivery.

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Navigating the Scrum Events - The Sprint

Scrum.org

If your team is able to create a usable increment in a shorter time-box than 1 month, consider shortening your Sprint cadence. Refinement can happen on an ongoing basis, as needed, in a meeting or may not be needed every Sprint depending on how Product Backlog items are defined and how the team is working.

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Map Your Route to Mastering Agile Fluency

Scrum.org

Without defining value, no agile transformation is possible. Once the value is defined and the teams starting to learn and deliver, the change isn't done yet. role of a product owner) to manage the value at that defined level (e.g., It all starts with focusing on value. In fact, it is never done. with a product backlog).

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