Remove Cadence Remove Estimate Remove Infrastructure Remove Sustainability
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Selling Agile to the C-Suite to Get Buy-In

Leading Agile

Organizations need to move at market speeds sustainably, and that pace is getting faster and faster. 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. But that’s probably not true, right? So what can we agree on?

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Questioning Agile Dogma

Leading Agile

I’d like to consider the following in this post: Sustainable Pace. Sustainable Pace. 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. Note: sustainable is good; sustained is not.).

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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?