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Influencing the eternal optimism of a delivery team

Kiron Bondale

For those teams which use an iteration-based cadence for their delivery such as those who have implemented the Scrum framework there have multiple feedback loops to help them improve. When I teach agile fundamentals classes, I frequently emphasize the importance of inspection and adaptation. Teams which don’t use feedback loops with their products and their processes should not consider themselves to be very agile.

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Opportunity to Influence Product Development at Scrum.org - Come Experiment With Us!

Scrum.org

As applied to the Professional Scrum Master™ course, you can expect to experience the course over four half-day classroom sessions on a weekly cadence, for example. Image Credit: Unsplash | Jason Goodman. . This post is a collaborative effort between Thomas Schissler and Sabrina Love. .

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The Virtuous Cycle of Trust and Influence

Leading Agile

In today’s blog, a continuation of the first in this two-part series, we’ll talk about building trust and influence, and initiating the trust-influence loop. Delivering on a regular, predictable cadence. Without trust, you are not going to get permission to influence.

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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.

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Choosing a Development Approach

International Institute for Learning

Product variables include innovation, scope stability, requirements certainty, ease of change, and delivery cadence. Delivery cadence considers if your project has one main deliverable or can be decomposed into multiple smaller deliverables. Delivery cadence.

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13 Reasons to Choose Agile Project Management Methods

LiquidPlanner

Hiring is a time-consuming role for someone, so why not try to influence staff retention rates and create a self-organizing, engaging work environment? You create a delivery cadence Timeboxing in agile is a way of wrapping up work into a clearly defined iteration (or sprint).

2023 158
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How effective is your benefits management framework?

Kiron Bondale

This is especially true with discretionary investments as the benefits from mandatory projects are usually related to risk reduction and are usually immune to changes in strategic objectives or external environmental influences. This can be quite challenging with enterprise portfolios containing multiple interdependent projects and programs where a single Key Performance Indicator (KPI) might be influenced by a collection of projects.

2017 149
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Maintain a sense of change urgency through agility

Kiron Bondale

While it is ideal if this urgency is tied to What’s In It For Me, at a minimum, we all want proof that committing our time and political influence to a particular initiative at this very moment is cheaper than the cost of doing nothing. The specific cadence varies based on the complexity and duration of a transformation.

2018 166
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Showing up: Why your Scrum Master mindset is everything

Scrum.org

Ultimately, as Scrum Masters, we have the best shot at influencing others and achieving our goals when we show up: Connected to our purpose. We can be proactive in our approach, reducing the time between seeing issues and influencing others so we can avoid them or minimize their impact.

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How to Build & Manage a Successful Creative Team

Brad Egeland

Ultimately, everyone is working toward the same goal: To produce top-quality content that influences company growth. Set a good meeting cadence, and then improve it. Whether your creative team is made up of five people or 50, setting a meeting cadence that makes sense for everyone is a great way to support your team in their day-to-day responsibilities — not just the major collaborative projects.

2022 134
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5 Tips to Build a Harmonious Project Team in 2023

LiquidPlanner

Harmonious Focus 2: Set ground rules and act as a harmonizing influence Set a cadence for how your team should behave and work from project initiation to completion. Think your project management clients are your business’ bread and butter? Think again.

2023 148
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Project Communication Management: What is it all about?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Did you know that 56% of your project budget might be at risk due to poor communications? Perhaps that number (from research by PMI ) surprises you, but I’m sure you aren’t surprised by the fact that good communication management on projects leads to higher success rates.

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How should I handle an agile-waterfall hybrid project?

Kiron Bondale

Another attribute which influences this is an understanding of who is delivering which work streams. Things to consider when faced with such a hybrid project are: Orchestrating delivery cadence from each work stream to ensure that consuming work streams are not incurring prolonged delays in receiving components from providing ones.

2017 136
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7 tips for setting more effective goals

Scrum.org

6: Establish a cadence to inspect and adapt different goals . Even if it’s difficult to get the entire organization to change how it uses goals, you can have influence by improving goal-setting conversations. Goal setting is an essential tool supporting agility in complex environments.

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Creating a Risk-Adjusted Backlog

Leading Answers

Some might have to be escalated to other stakeholders to get the benefits, and a final category may have to be ignored if we cannot influence them. However, for those risks we can influence, we should create risk response actions and discuss how best to prioritize them with the Product Owner.

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The Three — Wait: Four — Elements of Empiricism

Scrum.org

To help with inspection, Scrum provides cadence in the form of its five events.”. TL; DR: Elements of Empiricism. In its theory section, the Scrum Guide refers to the three elements of empiricism: transparency, inspection, and adaptation.

2022 187
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Minimal measures for minimal stability in a complex environment

Scrum.org

One aspect of ‘complexity’ are the parameters, variables and events that influence an activity and its course. Scrum, in its more general definition, is a simple framework to help us address complex challenges.

2020 201
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SAFe Simply Explained (Part 1): Core Competencies and Principles

Inloox

It is up to the management to create the right environment to positively influence teams and individuals. These fixed, i.e. unalterable, ten principles aim to influence leadership behavior and decision making. Agility should no longer be a new term for most project managers. High flexibility, adaptability and increased communication are just a few of the benefits that have led to significant improvements through the introduction of agile work processes in organizations.

2021 100
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The Complete Guide to Scaling Agile and SAFe for Business Agility

Agilemania

The cadence of development of multiple teams. These topics influence all domains. . What is Scaling in Agile? Agile is a set of values and principles. Agile is an umbrella term for a group of iterative product development frameworks.

2022 98
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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In every case, you should have people on the group who understand the project (or who can be brought up to speed) and who have influence and interest in the outcomes. It’s fine to have a different cadence at different points in the project lifecycle.

2022 298
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11 Proven Stakeholder Communication Tactics

Scrum.org

The cadence of this event depends on the Sprint length of your Scrum Teams, which is influenced, for example, by your product, your market, governance requirements, if the Scrum Teams’ Sprints are aligned, or whether they are practicing continuous delivery anyway.

2020 187
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15 of the Best Productivity Tools for Marketers That You Haven’t Heard Of

ProjectManager.com

The cadence of the posts are set by MissingLettr, but you can change them at any time. MuckRack shows you which journalists and online influencers have shared your content. This can help you evaluate press coverage, find influencers to reach out to and to demonstrate social influence for your published content. As digital marketers, we live for a good tool or tip that can make our lives easier.

2018 246
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Essential SAFe 4.0 – How is it Different from SAFe 4.0?

Digite

is highly influenced by systems thinking the approach and strongly recommends the organizational transformation to be top-down in this regard. Release Train and Cadence. Without an Agile Release Train, it would be impossible to have multiple teams delivering in Cadence, with synchronized sprint start and end dates. Essential SAFe 4.0 was launched by Scaled Agile Inc. in 2016 as a method to help organizations scale up their existing agile practices.

2017 83
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How to Build Your Remote Management Workflow

Workamajig

The communication cadence is completely different. A digital marketing project might have one workflow for creating blog posts, another for identifying Instagram influencers, and another for starting a Facebook ad campaign.

2020 148
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From Order Taker to Opportunity Maker…IT’s Digital Transition for Driving the Business

Leading Agile

Teams delivering on a predictable cadence earn the trust of the business. Hold Teams, as well as overall organization, accountable for producing a working tested increment of product on a regular cadence.

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10 Reasons Why Agile Transformations Fail – And How To Fix Them

Agilemania

The Agile methods , which provide alignment, planning, and cadence for small teams, fall painfully short when implementing the same across hundreds of people needed to build very complex products.

2022 98
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How To Unite Creative and Project Management Teams

Brad Egeland

Make the most of these meetings by organizing a regular structure or cadence to them, or even by bringing an agenda — but make sure you don’t neglect to include time for morale building. Strong teamwork is important in producing great work at a productive pace.

2021 123
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Improve Objectives & Key Results (OKRs) With Key Result Validation

Scrum.org

When used as designed, OKRs can have a massive positive influence on organizations. Once about four or five key results are determined for each objective, it is the job of an OKR Champion (servant leader) to coach and guide the team in executing on a cadence towards the objectives. In the world of tech, many industry giants such as Google choose to use a management framework known as Objectives and Key Results (OKR).

2019 140
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58 Product Owner Theses

Scrum.org

The Product Owner owns the “why” and influences the “what” and “who,” but never the “how.” Roadmap planning is—like Product Backlog refinement—a continuous effort, just at an extended cadence. TL;DR: The Scrum Product Owner in 58 Theses.

2020 206
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Scrum: 20 Sprint Planning Anti-Patterns

Scrum.org

Irregular Sprint lengths: The Scrum team has variable Sprint cadences. Or it is not free from outside influence. TL; DR: Scrum Master Anti-Patterns. The Sprint Planning is a core event that defines how your customers’ lives will improve with the following Product Increment.

2022 194
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How to write a project status update report (with free template)

Planio

If you haven’t already, start by completing a project stakeholder analysis, identifying who has an influence over your project and who’s impacted by it. Best practices and tips: Assess the size and speed of your project to get your update cadence right. No project happens in a vacuum.

2023 78
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How To Become a Successful SAFe Agile Coach?

Agilemania

All frameworks for scaling agile share five main components: inspiration from the 12 Agile Manifesto principles, cadence, synchronization, Scrum, and quality development practices. What is SAFe agile.

2021 98
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Transformation, Business Architecture, and Scaling

Leading Agile

What do you do with planning cadences? You either change the tool to accommodate the organization or you change the organization and unfortunately, most of the companies that we were dealing with, didn’t have agency or influence to change the organization.

2022 144
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20 Sprint Planning Anti-Patterns

Scrum.org

Irregular Sprint lengths: The Scrum Team has variable Sprint cadences. Or it is not free from outside influence. Sprint Planning is a core event, defining how your customers’ lives will improve with the next Product Increment.

2020 215
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Break Down Silos! Enhance User-Centricity with UX on Scrum Teams

Scrum.org

Why do I feel like I never have any influence?!?!". For example - regarding process, how could UX designers actually structure work - i.e., how could it fit into Sprint cadences of one month or less? I often see User Experience (UX) Designers struggle to align focus, work, and approach with Scrum Teams building increments of product in iterations of 30 days or fewer.

2019 128
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How To Become a Successful SAFe Agile Coach?

Agilemania

All frameworks for scaling agile share five main components: inspiration from the 12 Agile Manifesto principles, cadence, synchronization, Scrum, and quality development practices. What is SAFe agile.

2021 84
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Overview of the PMBOK® Guide Seventh Edition – Lesson 3 Transcription

MPUG

But do they hold the power and influence? The number, the turnover, the influence, the power and interest. And so the turnover, the influence of power and the interest is definitely something to be considered. What’s deliverable, cadence, project phase?

2022 59
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A Word on Velocity

Leading Agile

In fact, velocity becomes a useful metric for gauging predictability because it represents the whole cycle of estimation and execution by a group of people who settle into a stable cadence of output and become good at judging a set of user stories which represent that quantity of work.

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Cultivating the Kind of Culture Employees Crave

Leading Agile

It sets the tone for the interactions that take place between team members and it heavily influences the values of the workplace. In turn, it heavily influences how employees feel about the company.

2020 118
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Building Trust via Trustworthiness

Leading Agile

Teams don’t keep a regular cadence of collaboration and review. In the next segment of this two-part blog, we’ll delve into how to enable the business to create the right conditions to begin the trust-influence loop, which is a virtuous cycle that builds trust continuously

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