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How to Become a Better Project Communicator

Project Risk Coach

Imagine a business analyst who is mapping a business process. Notice the cadence, pauses, and the repetitions in the speech. The post How to Become a Better Project Communicator appeared first on Project Risk Coach. Imagine a developer who is creating a website. Why not create a swim lane diagram showing the steps and actors?

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How to Use Flow Metrics to Optimize Product Delivery

Scrum.org

Moreover, we'll delve into the specific Flow Metrics that warrant your attention – those metrics directly bearing on your delivery process's efficiency and effectiveness. Flow Metrics are quantitative measures that offer a panoramic view of work progressing through your delivery process. What Are Flow Metrics?

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How to Set and Achieve Effective Sprint Goals

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Here, the process of crafting a Sprint goal is unravelled. User Training and Documentation Sprint Goal - "By the end of this sprint, we will have provided training to all relevant stakeholders on how to use the migrated applications in the cloud environment and created comprehensive documentation." Create a Cadence of Accountability.

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Everything You Need to Know About Release Managers

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It wasn’t until I worked in IT as a project manager that I had a lot of contact with the release management process. My software projects needed releasing, so we had to follow the formal process and engage with the release manager to make sure that the bug fixes and new features got pushed to the production environment in a controlled way.

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

Scrum.org

People can use other processes to manage their work toward the OKRs. . This might seem like a complex process to pull off… the good news is that there’s a lot to learn from agile ways of working about facilitating such processes. Figuring out the right Cadence . There’s no need for an additional ongoing OKR cadence.

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The Forgotten Scrum Event

Scrum.org

And yet, the Sprint serves a pivotal role in Scrum by setting the cadence for feedback, inspection and adaptation in Scrum. However, it's crucial to recognize that the Sprint sets the cadence for all of the other events. In fact, many people don’t even realize that it is an event in Scrum. There’s no meeting for “The Sprint”, you see.

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Myth: Scrum is a Waste of Time

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At the end of the Sprint, the team reflects on how to improve how they work together (Sprint Retrospective). These events need to happen on a cadence of one month per less to ensure that the team is collaborating frequently enough to reduce risk (the Sprint). All of this information is captured in the Sprint Backlog.

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