Scrum.org

JANUARY 5, 2021

How do we define “cycle time” in our context? Due to horrible time-management on my part, we could not answer all the questions in the webinar, so we are answering them in this blog instead. EXECUTIVE REPORTING: How was the progress reported to executive management that is used to Gantt Charts type reporting? CONCLUSION.

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Cadence Software Review SCRUM Leadership 217

Velociteach

MARCH 6, 2024

Making good decisions is a critical project management skill. How do they feel about risk, empowerment, accountability, hierarchy, and control? Risk tolerance describes comfort in taking risks. Start-ups generally have a greater risk tolerance than well-established organizations. By managers? Committees?

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2014 Cadence 2024 Influencer 90

LiquidPlanner

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Are you thinking about introducing agile processes to your project management methodology? If you are trying to make the move to agile project management in your development group, telling people that work will be organized differently might not go down so well. But now it’s time to dive into the details and decide.

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Agile Cadence Estimate Risk Management 174

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 22, 2021

Did you know that 56% of your project budget might be at risk due to poor communications? Perhaps that number (from research by PMI ) surprises you, but I’m sure you aren’t surprised by the fact that good communication management on projects leads to higher success rates. What is project communication management? who support it.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 11, 2022

If you think about the point of having a strategy discussion, it’s really to either define the strategy or to decide if you are on track with delivering the strategy. There’s no fixed cadence for strategy conversations. Think about the values, skills, culture and risks that might block your progress. 2.30pm: Revise plans.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 4, 2022

The Sprint is one of the five events defined in the Scrum Guide. The duration of the Sprint is timeboxed to a maximum of one month, establishing a cadence within which the Scrum team works together to deliver value. Here’s why: To deal with the risk inherent in complex environments, Scrum uses an iterative, incremental approach.

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Digite

AUGUST 21, 2017

In 2015, in a blog post called Kanban Cadences , David Anderson laid out a set of 7 Kanban cadences or meetings that provide comprehensive opportunities for feedback, planning, and review in an enterprise. or a simple Priority or Rank, usually defined jointly by the stakeholders, etc.

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Development Team Review Cadence Technical Review 2015 151

Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Imagine you’re a CIO, CTO, IT Leader, or Finance Manager. You are given unfunded mandates related to risk, compliance, and cyber security. A year is defined by a set of projects. We define the Governance rules that control how value flows through that Structure. Everything after that is chaos. WHERE THE PLAN GOES WRONG.

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nTask

OCTOBER 13, 2021

In this step, you have to identify and define the key metrics against which you will analyze the data and measure your performance. In Kanban methodology , there are seven cadences and each of them is implemented via a meeting. Let us take a look at each cadence and how it works: 1. Risk Review. Gather Data.

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Kiron Bondale

DECEMBER 17, 2017

Benefits management, like project risk management, is practiced poorly by most organizations. This is especially true with discretionary investments as the benefits from mandatory projects are usually related to risk reduction and are usually immune to changes in strategic objectives or external environmental influences.

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International Institute for Learning

APRIL 19, 2023

The Project Management Institute acquired DA in 2019 to extend its agile capabilities. Full SAFe extends the framework to Large Solutions that require coordinating many ARTs and implementing Lean Portfolio Management. Essential SAFe is the core configuration and is designed for managing a program of 5-12 agile teams.

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Velociteach

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The project management plan (Plan) is a powerful tool. Plan Elements The Plan is like a book with three main sections: Execution Parameters establish how the project will be managed along with the approach, required lifecycle phases, and governance procedures. It describes how the project will be executed.

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Planning Technical Review Governance Government 52

Scrum.org

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Lastly, there is an overlap with the product manager role. Process-wise, the Product Owner is accountable for effectively managing the Product Backlog, thus “owning” the product on behalf of the organization. Product Owner Theses: Internal Stakeholder Management. The role requires that Product Owners act like product managers.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 11, 2024

This article covers the three Scrum accountabilities (formerly roles) and addresses interferences of stakeholders and IT/line management with this crucial Scrum event. If a Sprint is too long, the market may invalidate a Sprint Goal, increasing complexity and risk. This habit also puts reaching the Sprint Goal at risk.

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Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review SCRUM 161

Planio

APRIL 24, 2023

Creative features, successful product ideas, wild marketing stunts, full rebrands, or massive IT projects — none of them work without the project managers that tirelessly make sure everyone’s on the same page and making progress towards a shared goal. Assessing and mitigating project risks 7. But there’s a problem.

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Development Team Review 2030 Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 78

Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Define the End-State. The Define the End State—or Discovery Step—validates the hypotheses created in the initial step and engages the broader organization. The mechanics of the Define the End State step are relatively simple. Then it will Define the End State. Finally, it will move the Expedition to its target Basecamp.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 5, 2017

Managing Cost, Schedule, & Technical Performance Risk Is The Basis Of Good Project Management. Risk management is essential to the success of any significant project. The emerging risks that can be identified early in the project that impact the project later are often termed “known unknowns.”

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Risk Management Risk Estimate Underperforming Technical Team 42

Scrum.org

MAY 14, 2020

In an effort to curb productivity leakage, some managers are turning to software to monitor their people. But, we will most surely not overcome the challenges we face by turning our management layer into the company police force. . To achieve business outcomes, managers and teams still need to know what work to complete.

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Agile Technical Review Software Review Cadence 172

Wrike

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Cadence and synchronization: Teams should work in fixed iterations, known as sprints, and synchronize their work to deliver a consistent flow of value. This cadence allows for regular feedback and course correction, so that teams stay on track and deliver high-quality results.

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SCRUM Cadence Development Team Review Software Review 36

Digite

MAY 26, 2017

Program Increments (PIs) provide a development timebox (default 10 weeks) that uses cadence and synchronization to facilitate planning, limiting WIP, provide for aggregation of value and assure consistent retrospectives. necessary to continuously define, build and test capabilities in every iteration. How is PI related to ART?

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Leading Answers

MARCH 7, 2019

These days, new project managers are exposed to conflicting guidance. When our projects undertake defined, repeatable work using technologies and approaches our organizations have experience in, then uncertainty and change rates are typically low and manageable. Here, traditional project management approaches work great.

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Software Review Technical Review Risk Management Software Developers 101

Bridge the Gap Consulting

MAY 16, 2023

Think of the readers as the team owners/general managers who want to know if you’re going to win the Super Bowl. Upper Management: These folks will want to see the executive dashboard and maybe one to two levels below that. Be OK to raise the flag when risks and issues pop their heads up. Meeting Cadence Calendar.

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MPUG

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Introduction: First, I am not writing this to be highbrow; besides technical and project management topics, I have enjoyed history and mythology for years. I recently watched an old Greek mythology movie from the early 80’s, and I had a revelation: the muses and project management.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation PMI Cadence 52

Scrum.org

APRIL 25, 2022

The Sprint Planning is a core event that defines how your customers’ lives will improve with the following Product Increment. The whole Scrum Team then collaborates to define a Sprint Goal that communicates why the Sprint is valuable to stakeholders. Irregular Sprint lengths: The Scrum team has variable Sprint cadences.

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Bridge the Gap Consulting

APRIL 11, 2023

Finding the PMO’s “WHY” Though this is listed first, it may be defined in your assessment last. Project Managers are out there every day representing the PMO, so make sure they’re well prepared! Also, look at communication cadence and means by which to share this information. Assumptions & Risks.

PMO 52

PMO Cadence Governance Government 52

International Institute for Learning

MAY 16, 2022

For the Agile community practitioners, managing change and uncertainty to deliver on strategic goals is nothing new. The former grows by adding scale and complexity, which must be managed. Today’s, and tomorrow’s, market-makers are more like living organisms.

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Artificial Inteligence Agile Cadence 2011 59

Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

And we can have multiple teams that are integrated in such a way that they produce integrated deliverables on regular cadences and where we have our portfolio items that actually move through our portfolio at a predictable rate. These were generally accepted practices that could be applied by most project managers.

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Agile Cadence PMI Certification 62

Planio

MARCH 20, 2020

While we’d love to say it’s the project management tool you use the truth is it’s something else: Communication. You wouldn’t just dive into a project without clearly defining your scope, resources, and timeline. Define your communication goals and requirements. That’s why having an effective communication plan is so important.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 20, 2019

Remember that Sprints are the containers for all other Sprint events and designed to provide cadence. At the same time during longer sprints risks might go uncover or stay unmitigated for longer. But it gives us an excellent point to start defining what too short of a Sprint will look like.

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SCRUM Cadence Consulting Risk Management 106

Scrum.org

AUGUST 21, 2019

Even so, this can all ring hollow when organizations are slow to change, and the avoidance and allocation of blame continues to be valued as an important management skill. For one thing, its members will need to understand and define a commitment point in their workflow. This can hardly be described as the right agile spirit either.

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Cadence SCRUM Risk Management Agile 134

Scrum.org

MARCH 28, 2022

Welcome to the Sprint anti-patterns article from my series on Scrum anti-patterns, covering the three Scrum roles—pardon me: accountabilities—and addressing the contributions of stakeholders and the IT/line management. When a Sprint’s horizon is too long the Sprint Goal may become invalid, complexity may rise, and risk may increase.

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SCRUM Technical Review Software Review Consulting 159

The Strategic Project Manager

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

From a strategic project management perspective, this post examines some key agile methods and there impact of strategy and project management. Crystal defines criticality along a continuum from feeling uncomfortable at the lowest level, effecting funding at the mid-level, to being life-threatening at the highest level.

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Agile Software Review Cadence SCRUM 52

Wrike

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

In project management, tracking the progress and performance of projects is essential for ensuring successful outcomes. One of the key tools that project managers rely on for this purpose is a status report. They enable project managers to track individual and team progress, ensuring that tasks are completed in a timely manner.

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Risk Management Cadence Risk Technical Review 36

Planio

MAY 9, 2022

After running Planio for more than a decade, I’ve come to learn that managers and leaders often wear blinders. When Google decided to research what quality defines the most successful teams, they ended up with an unexpected answer: psychological safety. Even before the pandemic, managing a remote team had its challenges.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Cadence Risk Management 147

Planio

AUGUST 9, 2021

Define your project goals. Move onto task management and list out milestones and steps. But like everything in project management, a project schedule needs to find the sweet spot between simple and complicated to be helpful. The schedule will also help you see if you’re overloading your team or putting people at risk of burnout.

Software Review 78

Software Review Technical Review Estimate Agile 78

Planio

AUGUST 1, 2022

Instead, you’re likely to find an army of managers and VPs whose job is to connect the dots and make sure you’re all working towards the same goals. Structure: The focus shifts away from a top-down hierarchy (Executives, SVP, VP, Manager, etc.) Agile transformations are challenging for both team members and managers.

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Agile Technical Review Leadership Infrastructure 78

Agilemania

MAY 17, 2021

SAFe is designed to give teams flexibility and help manage some of the challenges larger organizations have when practicing agile. These challenges make it difficult in: Managing inter-team dependencies to deliver an Increment. SAFe provides a well-defined approach for scaling agile, which addresses the challenges mentioned above.

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Agile Lean SCRUM Development Team Review 98