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

Scrum.org

To inform about why rather than prescribe what/how. Teams/groups then come up with their OKRs. Teams/Groups share their intent with each other and with relevant leaders to help ensure alignment in an environment of empowerment/autonomy. . Figuring out the right Cadence . Cross-functional Alignment .

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Everything You Need to Know About Release Managers

Rebel’s Guide to PM

They work with development teams to track progress and identify potential risks, as well as liaise with other departments such as QA, ops teams, service management, and support. The release manager at my last job worked closely with the development team to review what code changes would be coming.

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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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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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Disciplined Agile & SAFe

International Institute for Learning

They are “open source,” with all the information publicly available. 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.

Agile 59
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Creating a Risk-Adjusted Backlog

Leading Answers

Assessing the chances of loss or gain occur throughout all forms of business and relies on taking an economic view of decision making. I do not think the teams have been weak at threat avoidance. Instead, I believe many projects leave a lot of development team sourced opportunities unactioned.

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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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