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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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All technical debt is a risk to the product and to your business

Scrum.org

This commercial product was built using traditional project management practices and delivered on a two-yearly cadence. Even before 2012 Leadership, and engineers, had noticed that things were getting bogged down. On a two-yearly cadence, it takes four years to deliver on feature requests. TFS was delivered on a 2-year cycle.

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How Usable Working Products Are Your Ultimate Weapon Against Risks

Scrum.org

Feedback loops, value delivery, and engineering excellence are your protection in agile product delivery. Conclusion: Be Agile, Truly So create a usable working product on a regular cadence, close the feedback loops, and leverage as much automation as possible. Let’s get down to brass tacks.

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Project Communication Management: What is it all about?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

One of the most valuable resources in a project is the people (developers, engineers, subject matter experts, etc.) 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. who support it.

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Disciplined Agile & SAFe

International Institute for Learning

To coordinate the teams, SAFe applies cadence and synchronization. Cadence means all teams are aligned to a standard, two-week delivery cycle. The entire ART operates on a common 2-week cadence and begins its 10-week Program Increment (PI) with a 2-day planning event. This configuration creates a balance of power.

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Estimate at Completion: A Complete Guide + Template

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I do not work in construction, engineering or oil and gas where this attitude would perhaps be career-limiting, but I’m happy to share my real-life experience of using EAC! Either way, report EAC monthly or to your normal project management reporting cadence, so you can spot trends and identify issues before they become too significant.

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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. So get numbers. The skills of staff.