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

Scrum.org

Henrik Kniberg, in his usual brilliance, maybe nailed it best in this diagram describing Spotify’s “ Aligned Autonomy” engineering culture principle (Jason Yip elaborates on this principle here ). . Figuring out the right Cadence . The Scrum framework provides one example of how such a cadence could look.

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Are These DevOps Obstacles Getting in the Way of Your Agile Transformation?

Leading Agile

Different change cadences. The package is changing at one cadence and maybe you’re trying to innovate and change at another cadence, right? You want to be able to mark things that aren’t available because now you can move the package, something moving at different cadences. Also, review performance measures.

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Disciplined Agile & SAFe

International Institute for Learning

Essential SAFe is the core configuration and is designed for managing a program of 5-12 agile teams. To coordinate the teams, SAFe applies cadence and synchronization. Cadence means all teams are aligned to a standard, two-week delivery cycle. It is a virtual team of 75-125 people aligned to support a value stream.

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Enhancing Team Performance with Safe Scrum

Wrike

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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Creating a Risk-Adjusted Backlog

Leading Answers

For example, if the reporting engine we were asked to use does not support the data volume needed, we may need to stop using it, select a replacement, test it and implement that solution instead. Assessing the chances of loss or gain occur throughout all forms of business and relies on taking an economic view of decision making.

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A modern (and easy) guide to the 5 agile ceremonies

Planio

Agile ceremonies are the fuel that keeps your development team moving forward. Agile ceremonies get abandoned when teams stop seeing the value in them. (And Sprint review ceremony. Each morning, team members discuss what they worked on yesterday, what they’re doing today, and what’s blocking them from moving forward.

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New PM, New Choices

Leading Answers

We have a combination of creative goals (produce something new and appealing) and engineering goals (meet specifications, constraints). We are looking to build consensus between stakeholders, who include sponsors (concerned with value, schedule, quality), designers (aesthetics, features) and engineers (performance, practicality).