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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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7 tips for setting more effective goals

Scrum.org

For example, an infrastructure team might set a goal to reduce turn-around time for internal customer requests. Conflict ensues because the infrastructure team sees “in-progress” work requests sitting too long as a threat to their goal achievement. 6: Establish a cadence to inspect and adapt different goals .

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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. It’s the first impression that’s derived from the practices and “rituals” of the work community.

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Transformation, Business Architecture, and Scaling

Leading Agile

What do you do with planning cadences? Well, I guess, you know I spent the first 10 years of my career mostly in IT infrastructure. And the way that you’re going to maximize value at an enterprise level is to take your multi year annual planning cycles and to break them into some sort of quarterly cadence with quarterly funding, right?

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Selling Agile to the C-Suite to Get Buy-In

Leading Agile

Let me ask, are you all familiar with the ladder of influence? Our technologies often impede our ability to achieve our goals in infrastructure and operations. Creating Safety & Coming Up with a Credible Plan Create safety for your executives or your vice presidents or the directors that you can influence.

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 Executive’s Guide To Large-Scale Agile Transformation & Sustaining An Adaptive Enterprise w/ Mike Cottmeyer

Leading Agile

And so what we find is that when you’re talking to executives and you’re trying to influence leaders if you can align with their strategic value you can give them a way of measuring progress along the way. And then on the backside we need lagging indicators that actually say are we achieving the business results that we want?

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Case Study: the Business Banking transformation journey at de Volksbank.

Scrum.org

In the beginning, this made their life relatively easy since they had limited dependencies on the technical infrastructure and IT teams of the bank. The dedicated teams were able to deliver in a regular Sprint cadence, which was much faster than before (weeks instead of months). Reducing the power of the stakeholders (i.e.