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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

These are all functions of a project board (or steering group). Strong leadership in projects is important for success, so getting your project board and/or project steering group set up as soon as you can is a good start. In other words, this is the group that takes the tough decisions. What is a project steering group?

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To Fix Your OKRs – Go Back to First (Familiar) Principles

Scrum.org

Teams/groups then come up with their OKRs. Teams/Groups share their intent with each other and with relevant leaders to help ensure alignment in an environment of empowerment/autonomy. . Figuring out the right Cadence . The right cadence also provides an opportunity to reinforce/communicate strategic priorities and focus. .

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All technical debt is a risk to the product and to your business

Scrum.org

This commercial product was built using traditional project management practices and delivered on a two-yearly cadence. On a two-yearly cadence, it takes four years to deliver on feature requests. From 2005 (first beta) until 2012 they worked, successfully delivering a new version every 2 years. TFS was delivered on a 2-year cycle.

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Scaling Agile Practices – Improve Business Outcomes

Agilemania

Develop on Cadence; Release on Demand. In SAFe®, this is known as Develop on Cadence, a coordinated set of practices that support Agile Teams by providing a reliable series of events and activities that occur on a regular, predictable schedule. Agile Team and Agile Release Train Cadences. Release on Demand.

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How to Assemble a Project Team

ProjectManager.com

Luckily, projects are also a group effort—for every project, there is a project team working together to make deliverables a reality. Below each leader, the next tier is made of a group of team members. Projects, no matter the size and scope, are complex. If they weren’t, they might as well just be tasks on a to-do list.

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13 Reasons to Choose Agile Project Management Methods

LiquidPlanner

If you are trying to make the move to agile project management in your development group, telling people that work will be organized differently might not go down so well. You create a delivery cadence Timeboxing in agile is a way of wrapping up work into a clearly defined iteration (or sprint).

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How Usable Working Products Are Your Ultimate Weapon Against Risks

Scrum.org

From the Chaos Report, Standish Group. Conclusion: Be Agile, Truly So create a usable working product on a regular cadence, close the feedback loops, and leverage as much automation as possible. Constant rework of features because of a perceived bug or inconsistency from what’s needed creates significant waste for companies.

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