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

Scrum.org

I hear the phrase “but not all debt is bad” a lot, usually coupled with “some level of debt is manageable” and, as a software developer, it makes me cringe. The non-linear accumulation of technical debt A good example of this is from the Developer Division (DivDev) at Microsoft in developing a product called Team Foundation Server.

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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.

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Agile Still Works

Scrum.org

People and Interactions over tools and software. Agile has been around for a while now, but many firms still see agility as a software development solution. It’s no secret that agile software teams see all sorts of performance gains. . How can we find the right cadence for collaboration and when should we collaborate?

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Are These DevOps Obstacles Getting in the Way of Your Agile Transformation?

Leading Agile

Dealing with Packaged Software The first one, it came up, right? Different change cadences. The package is changing at one cadence and maybe you’re trying to innovate and change at another cadence, right? And, you know, ultimately the thing that slows software development down is fear of change.

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The Roles and Responsibilities of a SAFe Agilist You Never Knew

Agilemania

Apply cadence, synchronize with cross-domain planning. Kanban is a preferred framework for implementing Agile and DevOps software development. Group teams and regroup teams around the flow value. Develop skills for supporting and executing PI Planning events and coordinating numerous Agile Release Trains (ARTs).

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The Complete Guide to Scaling Agile and SAFe for Business Agility

Agilemania

Agile is an umbrella term for a group of iterative product development frameworks. Product development evolves through the collaborative effort of self-organizing and cross-functional teams and their customers and end-users with these frameworks. . The cadence of development of multiple teams.

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Do We Need Risk Management in Agile Projects?

MPUG

As we will see, agile methods are, to a degree, a response to the kind of risks that software development projects face. What agile adds to this, therefore, is a distinct cadence of its own iterations or drawdowns of tasks into the Work in Progress part of the Kanban Board. This is the uncertainty of the end product.