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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 are given unfunded mandates related to risk, compliance, and cyber security. It is possible to plan finances for the year while being crystal clear on strategic objectives and achieving them. Everything after that is chaos. WHERE THE PLAN GOES WRONG.

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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

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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Disciplined Agile & SAFe

International Institute for Learning

The Project Management Institute acquired DA in 2019 to extend its agile capabilities. Full SAFe extends the framework to Large Solutions that require coordinating many ARTs and implementing Lean Portfolio Management. Essential SAFe is the core configuration and is designed for managing a program of 5-12 agile teams.

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Agile Transformation: ChatGPT or McBoston?

Scrum.org

Build a strong and diverse change management team to lead the effort. Follow-up question : Your answer is too much focus on traditional project management. ChatGPT : “You’re right, my previous response focused primarily on traditional project management methods. Just ensure the minions comply and don’t ask too many questions.”

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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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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. Uncertainty creates risk. Risk Management is how Adults Manage Projects - Tim Lister. Conduct Schedule Risk Analysis. Uncertanty creates Risk. Update Schedule with Actual Progress.

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Transformation, Business Architecture, and Scaling

Leading Agile

How do you go up into Portfolio Management? How do you go up into investment management, that kind of a thing? What do you do with planning cadences? And you know, the manifesto had just been written and I was working as a project manager in a company called CheckFree here in Atlanta and squarely like in the PMO.

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