The IIL Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

This rhythm of exertion and recovery resonates deeply with the cadence of leadership in business. It’s essential to prioritize—identify the key initiatives that will require our focus as the year closes. These were the moments that allowed sore muscles to recover and my determination to be renewed.

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Scrum.org

MAY 27, 2021

We know Agile is not just for software teams. Working on a fortnightly cadence, teams can go through a planning conversation whereby they focus on the most important things to have completed in the forthcoming two-week sprint. Our experience has shown that time and again, Agile working practices benefit all sorts of teams.

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Leading Agile

JULY 18, 2023

Third, how are we reproducing working tests in software? When people make such statements, they usually mean that they have trained product owners and a proficient Scrum master, and their team consistently follows the cadence of sprint planning, daily stand-ups, interviews, and retrospectives. First, how are we forming teams?

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Leading Agile

APRIL 24, 2019

Business agility is what organizations are looking for; agile software development may be one enabling factor in achieving it, but it isn’t the point of a transformation. Dividing your transformation initiative along the seams of the technical infrastructure will often be a suboptimal approach. Half-Agile Transformations.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Is it software based or do users use physical boards? My clients get to decide the cadence of our “events.” Our cadence isn’t set to a specific time box but rather by sets of 5 Skills, Habits, and Behaviors. You don’t “do” Agile, you become it, and Scrum is a means to that ultimate end. Walk us through how people use it.

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Leading Agile

MAY 12, 2020

Here are some fun facts: The first company founded to provide software products and services was Computer Usage Company in 1955. 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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Digite

MAY 15, 2018

It also encourages everyone to review/adopt the values (in Scrum language) that can help software development teams succeed in building software. Kanban teams are fully capable of doing everything that Scrum teams do, described as some sort of feedback meetings that happen on a cadence. You should go read it now.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 6, 2022

It’s fine to have a different cadence at different points in the project lifecycle. The initiator may have moved on, and his or her successor may be unwilling to support the project for any number of reasons. When to hold the meetings. Take Action: Again, your project board is not made up of the right people. Then address the ‘what’.

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Henny Portman

JULY 26, 2020

Furthermore, neither agile or scrum contemplates how the agile team should be connected to a larger organization and to external partners who will likely have differing development processes and cadences. It puts the focus on the software and the related business processes in a powerful way by using different scenarios. Conclusion.

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The Strategic Project Manager

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

To provide an initial taste of agile methods, consider the following list: Scrum – Scrum codifies the ‘pillars and values’ of transparency, inspection, and adaptation. Extreme Programming (XP) – XP is focused on software development – but that does not mean it cannot be applied elsewhere!

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Agilemania

JANUARY 24, 2022

Initially focusing strictly on empowering teams to develop products and solutions faster and more efficiently, the tremendous success in doing business this way led to large enterprise-level organizations scaling the practice to meet their needs, even extending beyond the product organization. . The cadence of development of multiple teams.

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Digite

JANUARY 2, 2017

Those who have undergone any initiation to SAFe would confirm that at Team level, SAFe works very much like standard Scrum, although the teams can also work in Kanban. This is a key tenet of SAFe framework and referred to as ‘Develop in Cadence’ in the big picture. Scaling Challenges in Large Programs and Organizations.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

To prevail in today’s game of an accelerated innovation-based competition—software is eating the world—, every organization needs to acquire a holistic understanding of an agile product creation process: A vision leads to a strategy that (probably) results in a portfolio of products (and services).

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The Strategic Project Manager

JUNE 28, 2022

Project vision – At initiation of the project, there is a vision for what the project is to accomplish and produce. Sprints set a cadence for the team. Strategic projects – Strategically driven initiatives, the second of the two types of projects outlined by Michael Porter , also fits well with the agile scrum approach.

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Agilemania

DECEMBER 2, 2021

SAFe endorses alignment, transparency, collaboration, and product delivery involving large size teams.The core of SAFe is based on four bodies of knowledge which are agile software development, lean product development, systems thinking, and DevOps. Apply cadence and synchronize with cross-domain planning. Take an economic view.

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Agilemania

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The groundwork for SAFe was formed in 4 knowledge areas – agile software development, lean product development, systems thinking, and DevOps. Apply cadence and synchronize with cross-domain planning. Use business value to secure an initial commitment from business and IT leadership. Decentralize decision making.

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Agilemania

MARCH 19, 2021

Software Development. And through safe to fail experiments, they should take improvement initiatives. Kanban vs. Scrum- Cadence . So, now that you know all the basic definitions and processes of Kanban and Scrum, let’s move on to our next point- the main difference between Scrum and Kanban. Lean Manufacturing. Daily Scrum.

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Planio

JULY 4, 2022

Agile ceremonies — also known as Scrum ceremonies or just ‘events’ — are specific events that provide a structured framework for iterative software development processes. Agile is an umbrella term for different iterative and feedback-driven software development processes. All software should be usable, and at the quality you expect.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 13, 2018

Technical teams who are building or supporting application software usually work from a prioritized list of improvements, new features, and ideas to try out. ” In the Old Days, the expectation was that building software was just like building anything else. New software appears at the end of the line like clockwork.

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Wrike

JUNE 15, 2023

Without resource management tools that let you allocate your budget accordingly, you could easily exceed your initial estimate. In other words, proper project management — and the software you use for assistance — can help you turn the art of juggling tasks and projects into a science.

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Proofhub

APRIL 8, 2020

Either use social media or specialized chat software to facilitate constant communication between team members. We have a weekly Huddle every Monday, which we’ve been doing via Google Hangouts since working remotely, and managers have kept their regular cadence of meetings in place. Use an all-in-one project management software?—?ProofHub

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Wrike

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Alongside that, full-time employees are increasingly working as members of dispersed, global teams, communicating and coordinating via online software and apps. Over the years, however, its scope has broadened to encompass a wide range of activities and initiatives. For instance, it allows employees to work from anywhere in the world.

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Planio

AUGUST 9, 2021

What is the best project scheduling software to use? If you’re using Agile, you’ll want to determine a sprint cadence that will let you hit your quarterly OKRs. (We If you’re just starting and aren’t using project scheduling software (read on for our top choices!), What is the best project scheduling software to use?

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Digite

MARCH 1, 2017

However, I had not seen Kanban being applied to software development, project management, etc. I guess that was my initial foray into a “proto-kanban” implementation – I was still learning! I got to understand much better the application and benefits of the Kanban method for software Development and knowledge work. Our Cadences.

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Digite

MARCH 2, 2018

From the questioner’s post, it is not clear if their team is doing production support or software/ app dev. We do product releases every 4-6 weeks, and these get deloyed to our SaaS servers – that cadence is well established. What is the business context? Support, SLAs, Meeting Market Requirements. This is a loss to the company.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 5, 2018

Developers won’t discover their initial architectural assumptions were wrong until there’s no time or money left to make changes. If any of the team’s initial architectural assumptions prove to be wrong, they’ll have ample time to adjust. I selected Initialize this repository with a README.

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Digite

MARCH 2, 2018

From the questioner’s post, it is not clear if their team is doing production support or software/ app dev. We do product releases every 4-6 weeks, and these get deployed to our SaaS servers – that cadence is well established. What is the business context? Support, SLAs, Meeting Market Requirements. This is a loss to the company.

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Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Cadence Software 66

Agilemania

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Software Development. And through safe to fail experiments, they should take improvement initiatives. Kanban vs. Scrum- Cadence . So, now that you know all the basic definitions and processes of Kanban and Scrum, let’s move on to our next point- the main difference between Scrum and Kanban. Lean Manufacturing. Daily Scrum.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 19, 2020

So the first lens or the first set of foundational things that we’re going to talk about when it comes to predictability is the idea of the three things, teams, backlogs, working tested software. Because when we get to a point where we have a really clear definition of done, I never know how to draw a software.

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Leading Agile

JANUARY 21, 2021

So it’s like the ability to form teams, the ability to create clear backlogs the ability to get to a working tested increment of software at the end of every sprint. So again, I’m anchoring not on feature level agility that we often talk about when it comes like agile software development but how do I pivot an organization?

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Leading Agile

APRIL 7, 2023

That having weekly planning cadences; daily standups, reviews, and retrospectives would give people a reason to get in the same room and collaborate. Things really take off with the advent of the CSM certification and PMI finally recognizing Agile as a legitimate way to do software project management. Even if you are doing Scrum well.

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Planio

APRIL 24, 2023

Updating project management software to keep their team on track 9. But over the years, project managers have learned to follow a strict project lifecycle, which helps them manage every step of the journey, from establishing initial goals to handover and closing. Creating actionable project plans 5.

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Digite

AUGUST 17, 2017

David Anderson is a thought leader and pioneer in the field of Lean/ Kanban for Software Development and managing effective software teams. While Kanban was meant to be initiated at the middle management level, Enterprise Services Planning is meant for executives and senior management.

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Leading Agile

MAY 3, 2023

The roles, the ceremonies, the artifacts, the cadences, all those different things that we model as implementation details. And so, this idea that we can separate the definition of the operating model, the initial idealized end state with a separate strategy for how we’re actually going to move the organization around.

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Scrum.org

JULY 31, 2023

To realize this ambition, a transformation was initiated that aimed at implementing a uniform agile way of working with independent, integrally responsible customer journey teams. They did not have the skills or authorization to make software and configuration changes in the banking systems.

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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. So, also about the time that you and I met you were doing some work with PMI and the OPM three initiative? And that was about the time that I was starting to develop the teams backlogs, working testing software.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 4, 2023

The Scaled Agile Framework wasn’t exactly what the authors of the Agile Manifesto imagined 20 years ago when they set out to define a better way of building software. It requires the ability to continuously deploy software, to continuously get feedback on it. But that doesn’t mean you can’t achieve greater Business Agility with SAFe.

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