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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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The Roles and Responsibilities of a SAFe Agilist You Never Knew

Agilemania

They have the skills to change Agile Portfolio management into a productive organization that produces seamless value to stakeholders and customers in the shortest sustainable time to market. Apply cadence, synchronize with cross-domain planning. Release Train Engineer, Scrum Master. Team Lead, Engineer, Business Analyst.

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Troubleshooting in Lean-Agile Development

MPUG

It’s usually based on a cadence. As shown in the above figure, there is no regular timeboxed iteration, but incremental delivery can happen in cadence. The team has a lack of strong engineering practices, among others. With a correct Agile/Lean coach, this understanding will be needed to sustain the project.

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Cultivating the Kind of Culture Employees Crave

Leading Agile

We take pride in being fearless, adaptive, sustainable, and egalitarian, and we admire attributes like integrity, respect, teamwork, and passion for continued learning. . The Pods meet on an agreed-upon cadence, and everyone in each Pod knows that they can reach out to other Pod members for questions, help, and a friendly voice.

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Transformation, Business Architecture, and Scaling

Leading Agile

What do you do with planning cadences? There’s a third system we call, system and continuous improvement, which is, how are you going to sustain it and continuously adapt it? The risk in this early stage, right, is that you build the engine and you get really good at building the wrong product. I mean, that can happen, right?

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Agile Unplugged: EP 02 | Mike Cottmeyer and Dennis Stevens

Leading Agile

You get super clear backlogs, you find out what the real cadences you’ve finished work that you start. The way I got into it was when I was at Perot systems, I was working in Jim champions organization and champion was one of the guys that led business process re-engineering. How do you like fix it? – Yeah. – Yeah.

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Sprint Anti-Patterns

Scrum.org

Given this display of distrust—why didn’t the engineers address this seemingly important issue during the Sprint Planning or before—the Developers are probably rather a group than a team anyway. Often, Developers create tasks an engineer can finish within a day during their planning sessions. We are not getting paid to practice Scrum.