The IIL Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Does the item need to be escalated to leadership or other parts of the organization? The frequency, method, and level of detail will depend on the stakeholder group. In 2016, Alan founded Project Management Essentials to share his passion for and experience in project management, leadership, and Agile. Are there new items?

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Leading Agile

JULY 18, 2023

If not, then we start measuring things like people trained, teams doing Scrum, or the organization’s sentiment toward Agile to tell us if we’re succeeding. The caller will say something like, “We’ve adopted Scrum, SAFe, or LeSS, but we’re not getting the desired business benefits from it.”

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Leading Agile

JULY 3, 2023

10 years ago, it seemed that a little Scrum here and some coaching there would suffice. Different change cadences. The package is changing at one cadence and maybe you’re trying to innovate and change at another cadence, right? Lastly, let’s talk about the lack of automation and address its implications.

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Agilemania

JANUARY 24, 2022

Agile is an umbrella term for a group of iterative product development frameworks. The Agile approaches such as Scrum framework, DSDM, Kanban, Extreme Programming (XP) provide rules, practices, and guidelines to build products and solutions using the Agile values and principles. . Scrum is lightweight and simple to understand. .

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Henny Portman

JULY 26, 2020

Levine wrote with People Over Process – Leadership for Agility a very pragmatic and down to earth book about leadership and agile projects. The classic formulation of agile in the Agile Manifesto has no role for leadership. As stated, the facilitative leadership model contains the triangle rigor, efficiency and alignment (REA).

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Planio

AUGUST 28, 2023

Source: Hypercontext The personal nature of a one-on-one is what separates them from other sessions such as team meetings , daily scrums, project update meetings, or all-hands calls. Helps you to develop coaching and leadership skills. It’s always better to change the cadence than continue with something that isn’t working.

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Agilemania

JANUARY 19, 2022

Cadence synchronize with crossdomain planning. LeanAgile Leadership . Learning is always fun in a group. Join our community groups Agile 30 and SAFeThursday and interact with fellow Agile and Scrum practitioners. Implementing SAFe Student Workbook: materials and exercises from Lessons 2 and 3. SAFe Core Values.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 20, 2023

But I think I think it’s important we all know what just kind of Scrum, Agile, the whole world knows that if we have to escalate every decision, it just takes forever. Actually, for strategies to build systems to ensure the right attributes are in place to empower your teams as a as a group. So that’s the topic. Fear, fear.

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Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

No amount of leadership attitude or mindset will change this.” And we can have multiple teams that are integrated in such a way that they produce integrated deliverables on regular cadences and where we have our portfolio items that actually move through our portfolio at a predictable rate.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 24, 2022

Feature teams are what most people think about when they think about Scrum teams. A cross-functional group of six to eight people who have everything they need to deliver an increment of working tested product at the end of every sprint. They meet on a regular cadence to move high-level work items through the system of delivery. *A

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Leading Agile

MAY 12, 2020

Let’s face it, IT has historically accepted the role of the “order taking – behind the scenes” group hidden from society. It takes more than a few Scrum teams to solve the Transformation puzzle. Teams delivering on a predictable cadence earn the trust of the business. Delivery-level to Leadership).

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Planio

JULY 4, 2022

But often, the real issue is that they’re missing a key ingredient: leadership. Daily scrum ceremony. Agile ceremonies — also known as Scrum ceremonies or just ‘events’ — are specific events that provide a structured framework for iterative software development processes. What are Agile ceremonies? And why do they matter?).

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Leading Agile

MAY 11, 2021

Delivering on a regular, predictable cadence. Trust and trustworthiness are two sides of the same coin that foster responsibility in teams and leadership without finger-pointing or the blame game. Trusting the team is scary for the business because, historically, IT has not been trustworthy and doesn’t have a good track record for: .

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Leading Agile

MARCH 23, 2022

What do you do with planning cadences? But what they’re really doing was like scrum with technical practices and things like that, I ever more aligned, it felt like to me was Scrum. And so, it’s that for a couple years, that group reorganized and I kind of find myself back in a regular PMO and I’m like, that’s not cool, right?

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Leading Agile

MAY 3, 2023

But as I’m sure a lot of you guys have seen as a lot of people run around doing Scrum or SAFe or whatever, and they’re not actually achieving the goals of agility and you know what’s hard? It happened with RUP, it happens with SAFe, it happens with Scrum, it happens with everything. Is there a product owner?

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Scrum.org

MARCH 28, 2022

Welcome to the Sprint anti-patterns article from my series on Scrum anti-patterns, covering the three Scrum roles—pardon me: accountabilities—and addressing the contributions of stakeholders and the IT/line management. Join Stefan in one of his upcoming Professional Scrum training classes ! Source : Scrum Guide 2020.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 11, 2024

This article covers the three Scrum accountabilities (formerly roles) and addresses interferences of stakeholders and IT/line management with this crucial Scrum event. Your single best investment to improve your professional standing ; order the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now! ? Source : Scrum Guide 2020.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 31, 2020

You get super clear backlogs, you find out what the real cadences you’ve finished work that you start. And I was working at version one at the time and so like I’m like all in like, not like team level scrum. So if you’re going to build Scrum teams, instead of building Scrum teams around projects, – Mm hmm.

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MPUG

DECEMBER 28, 2020

A new version of Scrum guide was released last month. It’s less prescriptive and seems to be intended for a wider audience group, particularly non-software users. It’s less prescriptive and seems to be intended for a wider audience group, particularly non-software users. It contains commitments for each of the Scrum artifacts.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Expeditions are groupings of teams that will make the Transformation journey together and consist of all the organizational pieces necessary to fully implement the new operating model. As Expeditions move through the Basecamps, we should see each group of teams achieve a valuable outcome for the business. So, what are Expeditions?

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Leading Agile

APRIL 7, 2023

I wasn’t around when things like XP and Scrum were invented, but I have been lucky enough to spend time with many of the original signers of the Manifesto. That having weekly planning cadences; daily standups, reviews, and retrospectives would give people a reason to get in the same room and collaborate. Why is it so difficult?

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Velociteach

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

You have scrum meetings, you know, you kind of come together for about 15 minutes. A Cadence to Managing Projects BILL YATES: Okay. There’s a cadence. There’s a cadence. Daily scrum meetings on every two weeks after you have your reviews; right? So you think about agile work. What are you working on?

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 14, 2021

The Nexus group of teams is very similar to the Agile Release Train (ART) construct. In both SAFe/Scrum it is a self-managing team of self-managed teams with a couple of key roles at the team of teams level. . Scrum theory emphasizes Empiricism and Self-management, coupled with Flow in recent years. Lean/Agile Leadership.

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Scrum.org

JULY 31, 2023

They were working as individuals on unprioritized tasks (three operations groups with different requests). Their work was restricted to: specifying changes requested by the operational teams, assigning them as tasks to technical teams somewhere in the adjacent IT group, chasing progress. A huge amount of time was wasted waiting.

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Planio

AUGUST 1, 2022

Build a leadership team that can get your required buy-in. Therefore, a transformation gets seen as simply applying Scrum or other Agile methods to your same working style and culture. If your customer support team starts doing sprints and following Scrum, that isn’t a transformation. Higher ROI on all your efforts.

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Leading Answers

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

The project communications management plan outlines how all the various stakeholder groups will be kept informed of progress and issues. It is this predictable cadence of show-and-tell sessions that creates the dolphins-versus-submarines comparison.  This is where a good communications management plan comes in.

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 3, 2023

When I first started thinking through this idea, I was actually really thinking about the idea of practices because back in 2010, a little bit earlier than that, Jim Kundiff, the Scrum Alliance, and those guys were really popularizing the CSM certification, PMI was doing the PMI ACP or a lot of us were part of that. So think about scrum.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 17, 2021

And so I’m looking at like all these people that were trying to adopt Scrum and what they were missing was this idea that if we can’t form complete cross-functional teams, giving them really super clear backlogs and give them the ability to produce a working passive increment of software at the end of every sprint, then it would fail.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Zombie Scrum describes the impact on delivery teams. To prevent the Zombie Scrum or Delivery Trap phenomenon, our operational model keeps planning, execution, and tracking coordinated horizontally across dependent Delivery Teams and vertically through the Portfolio, Program, and Delivery levels. See this and this for more information.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

I served as the VP of Program Management of the ITC (Information Technology and Communications) group, providing ERP, purpose-built IT, voice, and data systems for 5,000 employees and contractors of the Bomb Factory. . Creating the Balanced Scorecard - Small Group Hands-On , the second day of the IT strategy using Balanced Scorecard.

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Agilemania

MAY 17, 2021

The organizations start with few teams initially, and it is easier to follow simple & lightweight frameworks like Scrum or Kanban at this stage. They are responsible for guiding teams through the implementation process and are tasked with encouraging workers and leadership to embrace the agile method. Scrum@Scale.

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Agilemania

MAY 17, 2021

The organizations start with few teams initially, and it is easier to follow simple & lightweight frameworks like Scrum or Kanban at this stage. They are responsible for guiding teams through the implementation process and are tasked with encouraging workers and leadership to embrace the agile method. Scrum@Scale.

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