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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Here’s an introduction to these important groups as part of the governance framework so you can get yours set up and working on your project. A project board provides oversight and governance for the project. What you need is adequate governance for the project. What is a project board? Call your meetings anything you like.

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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. At the scale of an enterprise, these same concepts become Structure, Governance, and Metrics. Everything after that is chaos. WHERE THE PLAN GOES WRONG.

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Releases and Deadlines in Agile

Herding Cats

Cadence Release - when a fixed period ends, go with what is ready to go. Cadence Release paradigm, is a flow-based approach. The variability of the development work is minimized through the planned cadence. Focusing on meeting the needs of the customer or market is key to success in the Cadence approach.

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Transformation, Business Architecture, and Scaling

Leading Agile

What do you do with planning cadences? A lot of what those people have built upon are really sound foundational principles, like encapsulated teams at the work surface level, Kanban or flow based kind of governance models on top, right, at a lean agile metrics that enable us to measure improvement, things like that.

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GAO Cost Estimating and Assessment Guide Applied to Agile

Herding Cats

Either a Cadence Release Plan or a Capabilities Release Plan. Again, this is the basis of Managerial Finance. Business has a fiduciary need to know when Value will start being accrued. . This is the role of the Product Roadmap and Release Plan. Verify Schedule is Traceable Horizontally and Vertically.

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Leveraging Agile to Get Predictable

Leading Agile

And not only like the CIOs are interested but the CEOs are interested, and the finance people are interested in the product, people are interested in the market, there’s a lot of stuff that’s interested. 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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On Managing Expectations of Methodologies & Frameworks

Leading Agile

They don’t have lightweight governance. There are people dependencies, there are requirement dependencies, there’s governance and controls and metrics and all those kinds of things. The team meets on a regular cadence, identifies the backlog, breaks the backlog down, roughly plans out their work.