Herding Cats

JULY 27, 2017

We were speaking a Homeland Security yesterday on Agile development in the Federal Government and there was a senior director who brought up a paradigm that resonated with me. With these two plans, the Product Backlog and Sprint Plans can be developed incrementally and iteratively to produce the needed Features for the customer. .

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Herding Cats

JULY 29, 2017

Better have a plan to reduce technical and programmatic uncertainty (both of which have aleatory and epistemic behaviours respectively) at a planned rate, for a planned cost, on a planned time. Or plan on being late, over budget, and reduced probability of technical success, before you start. IT Risk Management.

Cadence 28

Cadence Software Engineering Estimate Manufacturing 28

Leading Agile

MAY 3, 2023

And so if you show up and like you say, “Hey, I want to adopt Agile,” but you know, you’re not familiar with the strategies or Agile governance strategies or such, right? The roles, the ceremonies, the artifacts, the cadences, all those different things that we model as implementation details. Are we doing reviews?

Agile 62

Agile Technical Review Governance Government 62

Leading Agile

AUGUST 19, 2020

If you’re a small team, right, if you’re literally a company of six to eight people, right, there’s probably like a ton of business benefit that you would get from planning and Scrum cases. Because those are the things that fundamentally get in the way how we govern, right, how we deal with cross cutting concerns.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Our governance model and team design may look a little complicated at first glance. In this presentation, our Chief Methodologist, Dennis Stevens will remove the noise and walk you through our governance model and team design to help you better understand the LeadingAgile system of delivery. View Dennis’ System of Delivery Deck.

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Governance Government Cadence Underperforming Technical Team 76

Leading Agile

APRIL 7, 2023

They hypothesized that estimating the cards and doing burn-down charts would increase throughput. That having weekly planning cadences; daily standups, reviews, and retrospectives would give people a reason to get in the same room and collaborate. The governance model? Governance and control. Audit requirements.

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Agile Governance Government Underperforming Technical Team 132

Planio

APRIL 24, 2023

In 2021, the Project Management Institute estimated that by 2030 the global economy would need 25 million more project managers to keep up with the demand for change. Creating actionable project plans 5. Planning and scheduling project resources 6. Planning sprints and running agile ceremonies 8. But there’s a problem.

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2030 Development Team Review Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 78

Leading Agile

OCTOBER 3, 2023

So we start with culture, maybe we go to practices and then all those teaming strategies and dependencies and governance and metrics and all that stuff that we struggle with all the time will just kind of work itself out. We want a culture that values responding to change over, following a plan that want to manifest the lines.

Governance 62

Governance Government SCRUM Agile 62

Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Planning and Scheduling (#PS). Integrated Master Plan and Master Schedule (#IMPIMS). Governance (#Governance). Without those, progress to plan can only be measured with the passage of time and consumption of money. This starts with a Plan to deliver those Capabilities. Management Processes (#MP).

Technical Review 42

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Governance 42

Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Actual dates are different from planned or estimated dates. Actual Effort: The actual effort spent to complete the activity, as opposed to the planned or estimated effort. Actual Expenditure: The actual expenditure spent to complete the activity, as opposed to the planned or estimated expenditure.

Underperforming Technical Team 78

Underperforming Technical Team Project Life Cycle Estimate Risk Management 78

Herding Cats

AUGUST 5, 2017

For risks that are beyond the vision of the project team a properly implemented risk management process can also rapidly quantify the risks impact and provide sound plans for mitigating its effect. Hoping that the project will proceed as planned is naïve at best and poor management at worse. When these occur, a new plan is needed.

Risk Management 42

Risk Management Risk Estimate Underperforming Technical Team 42

MPUG

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

We do plan to answer those questions for you throughout the session today. But a long time always in project, and that’s great because I get some of the insight track and the early track on what’s happening with Microsoft Project and that whole suite of applications with planning applications from Microsoft.

Software Review 52

Software Review 2020 Risk Management Governance 52

Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

High WIP levels and failure to recognize delivery capacity, identify scarce resources, and consider estimates led to intense pressure to deliver late in the project schedule. It includes advice about planning for employee burn-out and burning them out quite deliberately.

Agile 116

Agile Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Technical Review 116

Herding Cats

APRIL 5, 2016

In our domain this is the Performance Measurement Baseline, which is a time-phased budget plan for accomplishing work against which contract performance is measured. This is the basis of the Agile Product Roadmap and Product Release Plan (either cadence or capability based). When you hear this You don't always need a plan Bro.

Software Developers 28

Software Developers Software Development Software Review Software 28

MPUG

JUNE 1, 2022

Meaning to say creating value, organizational governance and systems, functions associated with projects, the project environment, and product management considerations all provide the context for how project management could be conducted. Then planning. Do we start with planning? Now, bear in mind, this is all iterative, right?

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PMI Software Review Estimate Risk Management 59

Leading Agile

AUGUST 20, 2018

They asked a software developer what it would take, and he estimated something like 20,000 pounds over several months. The same rule of thumb applies to other governance reviews, as well. Test data must be crafted to align with test cases so that every execution of a test plan is identical. It needs to go away.

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