article thumbnail

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?

article thumbnail

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

Scrum.org

David L Marquet talks about Intent-based Leadership. 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 . Donald Reinertsen calls this Aligned Initiative.

Cadence 186
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

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. Even before 2012 Leadership, and engineers, had noticed that things were getting bogged down. On a two-yearly cadence, it takes four years to deliver on feature requests. TFS was delivered on a 2-year cycle.

article thumbnail

Unlocking the Power and Mastery of Development Approach and Life Cycle

Project Pulse Journal

This domain facilitates strategic alignment, optimized delivery cadence, methodology customization, increased flexibility, and improved risk management. The desire for a project management framework that sustains deliverability, supports the required cadence, and remains faithful to an adaptable methodology is now within reach.

article thumbnail

Project Decision-Making

Velociteach

Strategic initiatives have higher visibility and require greater leadership engagement than a small maintenance project. The person or group that has the decision-making authority. Understand the Project Context Projects support the organization’s mission and goals. Is there consistency with the past? What is the timing of the process?

2014 91
article thumbnail

Your Strategy Planning Meeting Agenda (with Template)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

There’s no fixed cadence for strategy conversations. If you are starting from scratch and are using the time to write your strategy, you’ll need to put time aside for brainstorming new ideas, a presentation of market research analysis or feedback from customer focus groups. When do strategic meetings happen?

Planning 380
article thumbnail

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.

Cadence 460