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Do We Need Risk Management in Agile Projects?

MPUG

However, its biggest practical impact will be the risk management processes and infrastructure the organization imposes on its projects. What agile adds to this, therefore, is a distinct cadence of its own iterations or drawdowns of tasks into the Work in Progress part of the Kanban Board.

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An Incremental Paradigm

Herding Cats

The infrastructure for enterprise IT has a critical impact on the operational aspects of projects. So when you hear Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) as buzzwords , ask can you show me your Product Roadmap and Release Plan (either Capabilities release plan or Cadence release plan). Related articles.

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Handling Unplanned Work

Leading Agile

We did our short-term planning last week and we came up with an idea of what work we would be able to complete in the next iteration or cadence. People who have been using lightweight methods for years still talk about improving their estimation skills as a remedy for “failing” to force reality to conform with their predictions.

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Selling Agile to the C-Suite to Get Buy-In

Leading Agile

Now, let’s talk about why estimating in hours is absolutely critical for what they’re responsible for and what cannot be done without it. Our technologies often impede our ability to achieve our goals in infrastructure and operations. It’s crucial to get the executives to stop thinking that way.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Cost and schedule growth for federal programs is created by unrealistic technical performance expectations, unrealistic cost and schedule estimates, inadequate risk assessments, unanticipated technical issues, and poorly performed and ineffective risk management, all contributing to program technical and programmatic shortfalls. What is Risk?

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Webinar Recap: Introduction to the Power BI Suite

MPUG

Power BI gets refreshed every month so it has a high cadence. Not many of us are on the road these days but we will be in future, and of course, certain people might be out anyway if you’re out building infrastructure and you’ve got a project plan, then you’ve got to go wherever the infrastructure is, whatever that might be.

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Questioning Agile Dogma

Leading Agile

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. Once they are able to deliver reliably on a one-week cadence, most teams find the overhead of managing formal iterations or sprints to exceed the value of the timeboxes.

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