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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. You prepare an annual operating plan outlining your budget and allocations every year. WHERE THE PLAN GOES WRONG. Projects that you targeted did not start when you planned. Unplanned events, outages, and work eat at the money you planned to invest in a new value.

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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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Releases and Deadlines in Agile

Herding Cats

One critical paradigm is the Product Roadmap and the resulting Release Plan. Release Plans come in two flavors. 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.

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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

Product Roadmap and Release Plan describe the needed capabilities to be delivered by the project. This is connected to the Financial Plan for earning back the investment of the development. Agile teams, for the most part, are a fixed set of resources, so the spending plan is essentially Flat. They implement that strategy.

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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

So, we take, you know, in effect, team-based at the work surface level, we do some sort of Kanban/Big Room Planning, kind of release trainee kind of stuff and what in what we call like a middle tier. They don’t have lightweight governance. So, we’re doing more upfront planning. They’re not built around small teams.