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Leadership Futures from the Next Generation: Adapting, Empowering, Thriving

The IIL Blog

Instead, there’s an expectation for staff to embody agility and an adaptive way of working, embracing a regular cadence of incremental improvement and actively working towards enhancing processes, strategies, and skills over time. Holistic Success Metrics: Expand success metrics beyond finance and output.

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Why Your Annual Operating Plan Is A Lie and What To Do About It

Leading Agile

Imagine you’re a CIO, CTO, IT Leader, or Finance Manager. It is possible to plan finances for the year while being crystal clear on strategic objectives and achieving them. Annual budgets are a given–the company must plan its finances on an annual horizon. Everything after that is chaos. WHERE THE PLAN GOES WRONG.

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Connecting Business with IT to Achieve Agility in the Financial Sector

Planview

Joaquim’s response: The starting point was providing a governance framework that aligns the work of different roles to company objectives, KPIs, and cadence, with a good balance of rigor and flexibility. A key aspect is communicating what outcomes are to be achieved and what KPIs will be used.

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Disciplined Agile & SAFe

International Institute for Learning

To coordinate the teams, SAFe applies cadence and synchronization. Cadence means all teams are aligned to a standard, two-week delivery cycle. Finally, the outer layer extends to enterprise functions such as Legal, Finance, and HR. Synchronization is achieved through a quarterly 2-day, “big-room planning” event.

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SAFe Simply Explained (Part 1): Core Competencies and Principles

Inloox

Lean Portfolio Management: Achieving business agility requires a modernized approach to portfolio management that aligns strategy, financing and operations by applying lean agile principles. This requires collaboration and alignment of processes.

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Enhancing Team Performance with Safe Scrum

Wrike

Cadence and synchronization: Teams should work in fixed iterations, known as sprints, and synchronize their work to deliver a consistent flow of value. This cadence allows for regular feedback and course correction, so that teams stay on track and deliver high-quality results.

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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It’s fine to have a different cadence at different points in the project lifecycle. Project boards can include anyone else who has a significant vested interest in the way the project is run, the delivery of the project scope, and the decisions that are taken. When to hold the meetings.