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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. It was a much smaller group, and focused on strategic decision making instead of day-to-day problem solving and risk management. Risks and issues. They should help guide you to project success.

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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. The event facilitates quick resolution of interdependencies, risks, and issues.

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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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Agile Transformation: ChatGPT or McBoston?

Scrum.org

To approach this change effort with an agile mindset, I would suggest the following: Emphasize on creating a culture of continuous improvement and experimentation, where employees are encouraged to take risks and learn from failures. A suggestion on how to finance the transformation./li> A rough estimation of the budget required.

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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. Be an adult and provide margin for all work.

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Transformation, Business Architecture, and Scaling

Leading Agile

What do you do with planning cadences? It’s kind of like, the broad arc is methodology and then we have kind of product and business architecture and kind of within product, there’s a specialty that’s starting to emerge around finance and financial management. How do you go up into Portfolio Management? I mean, that can happen, right?

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