Leading Answers

JANUARY 16, 2021

This article explains what a risk-adjusted backlog is, why they are useful, how to create one and how teams work with them. What is a Risk-Adjusted Backlog? A risk-adjusted backlog is a backlog that contains activities relating to managing risk in addition to the usual features associated with delivering value.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Have you got a project management mentor? Maybe you were asked to identify a project manager as a mentor as part of an apprenticeship scheme – that’s the reason I have a couple of mentees at work. How did you get into project management? I’m thinking of taking a project management certification.

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Kiron Bondale

JULY 25, 2021

Whether a team uses a scheduled cadence for reviewing their WoW such as the use of retrospectives in Scrum, or they use a just-in-time approach they will come up with improvement ideas. For example, they might not have sufficient budget left to purchase a new tool. But what about changes to the team’s way of working (WoW)?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 10, 2022

There is a project management formula that will help answer those questions. In this article, I’ll explain what Estimate at Completion is for project managers, how to use it (because there are 4 different ways) and give you examples. What is EAC in project management?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 22, 2021

Did you know that 56% of your project budget might be at risk due to poor communications? 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. What is project communication management? who support it.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 8, 2024

Malinawan, PMP Navigating the complexities of modern project management demands a sophisticated comprehension of the Development Approach and Life Cycle Performance Domain. Your pursuit of streamlining and enhancing project management processes led you to a pivotal crossroads.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 6, 2022

They let you know whether you can go overspent or what risk mitigation actions are the right ones for this point in the project. Often an internal senior department manager, client account manager or supplier project manager/representative. Project manager: the person leading the project (you).

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Velociteach

MARCH 6, 2024

Making good decisions is a critical project management skill. How do they feel about risk, empowerment, accountability, hierarchy, and control? Risk tolerance describes comfort in taking risks. Start-ups generally have a greater risk tolerance than well-established organizations. By managers? Committees?

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Scrum.org

MAY 4, 2023

As not all stakeholders are the same, the product owner or manager needs to communicate with them differently as well. For example, for a SaaS (Software as a service) product, one of the key stakeholders is James Bond- Head Of IT Security. For example, James Bond, Head of IT security will have a High Influence.

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LiquidPlanner

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In a project-led business it’s about having a clear picture of how a project is performing, including resource allocation and potential risks. A work management software tool can help, but only if everyone looks at it. We’ve written before about the top project management visibility issues faced by teams.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Artifacts that have low transparency can lead to decisions that diminish value and increase risk.”. Include stakeholders in principle work, for example, by organizing joint user story mapping sessions. Convince your stakeholders of their importance in making Scrum work for you, for example, by attending Sprint Review sessions.

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Planio

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

7 unique sprint retrospective templates and examples to supercharge your meetings. In this guide, we cover the basics of what is a sprint retrospective, when it happens, and how to run one and then cover some of the best examples and ideas for running a successful one. Any full team meeting runs the risk of going off the rails.

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Kiron Bondale

MAY 26, 2019

For those teams which use an iteration-based cadence for their delivery such as those who have implemented the Scrum framework there have multiple feedback loops to help them improve. Poor risk management. So what happens when a team consistently misses their iteration forecasts by a significant margin?

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LiquidPlanner

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Think your project management clients are your business’ bread and butter? Without a harmonious project team, your project could be at risk of unhappy stakeholders and clients, delayed timelines, and every PM’s greatest nightmare … scope creep. Lead by example. Think again. Most importantly, practice what you preach.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 11, 2024

This article covers the three Scrum accountabilities (formerly roles) and addresses interferences of stakeholders and IT/line management with this crucial Scrum event. For example, could a month-long Sprint be too short for accomplishing something meaningful? This habit also puts reaching the Sprint Goal at risk.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 7, 2023

For example, Scrum includes five events: the Sprint, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and the Sprint Retrospective. PI Planning serves as the cornerstone of the Agile Release Train within SAFe, establishing a synchronized cadence for multiple teams to work together towards a common goal. It is deliberately incomplete.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 11, 2022

There’s no fixed cadence for strategy conversations. Present the overall roadmap, for example, a timeline for the 5 year plan. For example, perhaps you have a couple of different portfolios that support the strategy. Think about the values, skills, culture and risks that might block your progress. 2.30pm: Revise plans.

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Scrum.org

MAY 27, 2021

We’ve already discussed the importance of decentralised command and decision-making in an earlier blog, outlining how managers need to be able to train, mentor and teach their teams. In the Sprint Planning event, for example, leaders can use a decentralised, servant leadership approach to communicate their intent to their teams.

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Planio

APRIL 24, 2023

Creative features, successful product ideas, wild marketing stunts, full rebrands, or massive IT projects — none of them work without the project managers that tirelessly make sure everyone’s on the same page and making progress towards a shared goal. Assessing and mitigating project risks 7. But there’s a problem.

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nTask

OCTOBER 13, 2021

In Kanban methodology , there are seven cadences and each of them is implemented via a meeting. Let us take a look at each cadence and how it works: 1. Delivery planning meetings take up approximately 1 or 2 hours and are carried out every delivery cadence. Risk Review. Risk matrix overview of nTask.

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Digite

AUGUST 21, 2017

In 2015, in a blog post called Kanban Cadences , David Anderson laid out a set of 7 Kanban cadences or meetings that provide comprehensive opportunities for feedback, planning, and review in an enterprise. I believe this may be of interest to other teams as well, hence this blog post.

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Planio

MARCH 13, 2023

For many project managers, the process of communicating progress has become an annoying weekly task. 7 real benefits of writing good project status reports How to structure a project status report: 3 Examples 1. This leaves you at risk of becoming one of the 54% of projects fail that fail due to poor KPI tracking.

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International Institute for Learning

JANUARY 18, 2023

Let us look at an example. For this project there are two main deliverables, the bulletin boards and the software that manages and displays the information. Product variables include innovation, scope stability, requirements certainty, ease of change, and delivery cadence. Delivery cadence. Bulletin Board. Innovation.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Lastly, there is an overlap with the product manager role. Process-wise, the Product Owner is accountable for effectively managing the Product Backlog, thus “owning” the product on behalf of the organization. Product Owner Theses: Internal Stakeholder Management. The role requires that Product Owners act like product managers.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 28, 2022

Welcome to the Sprint anti-patterns article from my series on Scrum anti-patterns, covering the three Scrum roles—pardon me: accountabilities—and addressing the contributions of stakeholders and the IT/line management. For example, could a month-long Sprint be too short for accomplishing something meaningful?

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Velociteach

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The project management plan (Plan) is a powerful tool. Plan Elements The Plan is like a book with three main sections: Execution Parameters establish how the project will be managed along with the approach, required lifecycle phases, and governance procedures. It describes how the project will be executed.

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Digite

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

In this article, he outlines the similarities of the two as WIP Limiting, Pull-based systems – with cadences and a focus on learning – while also explaining their differences. They are attempting to advance the state of the art in work management predominately (but not only) in the area of knowledge work. Similarities.

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Sarah M. Hoban

MAY 2, 2022

Here are some tactical examples: Every meeting has an agenda to focus the discussion. It’s also true that failing to document this information makes it harder for organizations to scale and increases the risk that employees will burn out and lose motivation. (A It is also about making invisible work visible.

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Scrum.org

MAY 14, 2020

In an effort to curb productivity leakage, some managers are turning to software to monitor their people. But, we will most surely not overcome the challenges we face by turning our management layer into the company police force. . To achieve business outcomes, managers and teams still need to know what work to complete.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

In project management, tracking the progress and performance of projects is essential for ensuring successful outcomes. One of the key tools that project managers rely on for this purpose is a status report. They enable project managers to track individual and team progress, ensuring that tasks are completed in a timely manner.

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Bridge the Gap Consulting

MAY 16, 2023

Think of the readers as the team owners/general managers who want to know if you’re going to win the Super Bowl. Upper Management: These folks will want to see the executive dashboard and maybe one to two levels below that. Be OK to raise the flag when risks and issues pop their heads up. Meeting Cadence Calendar.

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Planio

MAY 9, 2022

After running Planio for more than a decade, I’ve come to learn that managers and leaders often wear blinders. Lead by example. The best way to understand what psychological safety looks like in practice is with an example we’ve all experienced. Even before the pandemic, managing a remote team had its challenges.

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Leading Answers

MARCH 7, 2019

These days, new project managers are exposed to conflicting guidance. When our projects undertake defined, repeatable work using technologies and approaches our organizations have experience in, then uncertainty and change rates are typically low and manageable. Here, traditional project management approaches work great.

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Planio

JANUARY 11, 2021

And while tools like Planio do a good job of helping you stay connected, successfully managing teams across countries and timezones takes a completely new set of skills. Poor people management: Embrace your team’s nuances. Timing and team cadence: Decouple team cadences whenever possible.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 21, 2019

The forecast made in Sprint Planning could have been way off, for example, and the opportunity to replan in each Daily Scrum might not have been taken as seriously as it ought to have been. Furthermore, we must contend with the very human desire to gloss over and preferably ignore any apparent failure or potential source of shame.

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International Institute for Learning

MAY 16, 2022

For the Agile community practitioners, managing change and uncertainty to deliver on strategic goals is nothing new. The former grows by adding scale and complexity, which must be managed. Today’s, and tomorrow’s, market-makers are more like living organisms.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 25, 2022

For example, the team might also consider who will be pairing with whom on what task. There might be good reasons for that, for example, a task’s value has not changed. Irregular Sprint lengths: The Scrum team has variable Sprint cadences. For example, tasks are not sized to fit into the regular Sprint length.

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