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Why Your Annual Operating Plan Is A Lie and What To Do About It

Leading Agile

Imagine you’re a CIO, CTO, IT Leader, or Finance Manager. A year is defined by a set of projects. It is possible to plan finances for the year while being crystal clear on strategic objectives and achieving them. At the scale of an enterprise, these same concepts become Structure, Governance, and Metrics.

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Releases and Deadlines in Agile

Herding Cats

Cadence Release - when a fixed period ends, go with what is ready to go. Cadence Release paradigm, is a flow-based approach. A predictive rhythm defines when the release will be released. The variability of the development work is minimized through the planned cadence. Release Plans come in two flavors.

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GAO Cost Estimating and Assessment Guide Applied to Agile

Herding Cats

The order of the needed Capabilties in defined in the business strategy. . Either a Cadence Release Plan or a Capabilities Release Plan. Again, this is the basis of Managerial Finance. Product Roadmap and Release Plan describe the needed capabilities to be delivered by the project. They implement that strategy.

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Transformation, Business Architecture, and Scaling

Leading Agile

What do you do with planning cadences? A lot of what those people have built upon are really sound foundational principles, like encapsulated teams at the work surface level, Kanban or flow based kind of governance models on top, right, at a lean agile metrics that enable us to measure improvement, things like that.

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Leveraging Agile to Get Predictable

Leading Agile

The good news is that many aspects of Transformation are definable and repeatable, so they can be predictable. And not only like the CIOs are interested but the CEOs are interested, and the finance people are interested in the product, people are interested in the market, there’s a lot of stuff that’s interested.

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On Managing Expectations of Methodologies & Frameworks

Leading Agile

The Scaled Agile Framework wasn’t exactly what the authors of the Agile Manifesto imagined 20 years ago when they set out to define a better way of building software. But it shouldn’t be vilified for having limitations because it does some things really well—even if those things aren’t Agile as defined in the Manifesto.

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What does a project manager do?

Planio

According to the Association for Project Management : “Project management is the application of processes, methods, skills, knowledge, and experience to achieve specific objectives, according to defined acceptance criteria, within agreed parameters.” Find the right meeting cadence for you and your team.