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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.

2022 98
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Professional Development Day 2022 – IGNITE!

International Institute for Learning

Facilitating Innovation in a Post COVID-19 World . Find out how to be a catalyst for change (facilitating innovation) and NOT an antagonist (frustrating innovation). This ineffective disconnect is highlighted when innovation, change and risk are present.

2022 98
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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. Innovation is the degree to which the technology and methods used are new and untested versus known and standardized. Innovation. Delivery cadence.

2023 52
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Mastering the (new) Agile Coaching Mindset for the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR)

International Institute for Learning

However, indisputable is the fact that hyper-personalized experiences, products, and services driven by innovative business models are the future for new revenue sources and increased market share. Leaping over the Competition with Innovation.

2022 59
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Comprehensive Guide to Becoming A SAFe Agilist

Agilemania

Some of the responsibilities of a SAFe agilist include fixation of schedules, timely increment in systems, applying the synchronization, adoption of Agile and SAFe core values, face-to-face planning, innovation, and planning. Apply cadence, synchronize with cross-domain planning.

2021 98
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The Difference Between The Kanban Method and Scrum

Digite

In this article, he outlines the similarities of the two as WIP Limiting, Pull-based systems – with cadences and a focus on learning – while also explaining their differences. Cadences. Scrum prescribes a cadence and that all activities happen within that timebox. If you didn’t guess, this cadence is called the sprint duration. Scrum’s Sprint duration is a great innovation over the traditional approach to managing work. This also includes cadences.

2018 94
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The Roles and Responsibilities of a SAFe Agilist You Never Knew

Agilemania

It’s when the entire organization uses Lean and agile practices to continually deliver innovative business solutions faster than the competition. They are open to innovation and help the team in defining goals and perceptions to communicate strategic vision clearly.

2021 98
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How Agile Testing Can Improve Business Outcomes

Leading Agile

Innovation. Product fit and innovation can only be addressed if you keep up with your market needs and anticipate what’s next. Over time, developing this regular cadence enables the organization to drive toward its desired end state.

2022 127
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Using OKRs with Scrum and Evidence Based Management

Scrum.org

Build internal capability to innovate or improve time to deliver value. Embedding OKRs into Scrum's Inspect/Adapt Cadence. OKRs are a great framework for setting goals. Setting high quality goals, goal clarity, and self-management, positively affect team performance [3].

2021 237
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Comparing Nexus and SAFe - Similarities, Differences, potential synergies

Scrum.org

The Nexus Sprint Review and the System Demo are similar events happening on a similar cadence - every several weeks (Sprint/Iteration). Nexus Sprint Goal - Program PI Objectives - just at different cadence/frequency. Adjust Cadences and level of participation.

2021 137
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The Three — Wait: Four — Elements of Empiricism

Scrum.org

September 27, 2022 : Join 200-plus peers at the 45th Hands-on Agile Meetup: FAST: An Innovative Way to Scale with James Shore. To help with inspection, Scrum provides cadence in the form of its five events.”. TL; DR: Elements of Empiricism.

2022 211
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Minimal measures for minimal stability in a complex environment

Scrum.org

Open offices kill innovation and creativity, even more when combined with clean wall policies. Scrum, in its more general definition, is a simple framework to help us address complex challenges.

2020 227
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Agile Still Works

Scrum.org

So online tooling doesn’t guarantee productivity, let alone innovation or creativity. Management Innovation. How can we find the right cadence for collaboration and when should we collaborate? It is a time of unprecedented challenge.

2020 193
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Are you having Fun?

Scrum.org

They have these conversations at the appropriate cadence, for appropriate duration's in order to elevate the transparency in their work. They need some slack to fuel their innovation and creativity.

2020 143
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SAFe 5.0 brief preview

Henny Portman

Continuous Learning Culture is based on three dimensions: Learning Organization (shared vision, systems thinking, mental models, team learning, personal mastery), Relentless Improvement (constant sense of danger, optimize the whole, problem solving culture, reflect at key milestones, fact based improvement), and Innovation Culture (innovative people, time & space, go see, experimentation & feedback, pivot without mercy or guilt, innovation riptides).

2019 47
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The Agile Fluency model

Henny Portman

Delivering teams deliver on the market cadence (agile sustainability). Optimizing teams lead their market (innovative business agility, agile’s promise). The Agile Fluency model, developed by Diana Larsen and James Shore in 2012 and substantially updated in 2018, is a framework to help teams understand their current position and to help them develop an individual road map. Agile teams pass through four distinct zones of fluency as they learn ( fluency evolves).

2019 67
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Improving SAFe Through Professional Scrum

Scrum.org

SAFe's perspective is that "Nothing beats an Agile Team" and it doesn't try to reinvent the wheel or even innovate too much when it comes to the Team level. When it comes to the Program level SAFe doesn't try to reinvent either - but here it uses Scrum/Kanban as a starting point and innovates in order to deal with some specific challenges of larger programs. SAFe has a cadence at the Team and Program levels.

2018 144
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A Different Agile Methods List for Strategic PM’s

The Strategic Project Manager

These are the most popular over time, but I like to leave the door open to new approaches and innovations. Agile is a broad term, and there are many ways to look at it.

2022 52
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How to build psychological safety on remote teams

Planio

It allows great teams to collaborate, push each other, and create innovative products. Openness to new ideas: You and the rest of your team need to get out of the “old ways” and be open to creative and innovative ideas. Feedback drives innovation.

2022 147
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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 Pass Implementing SAFe SPC Training Exam in your First Attempt

Agilemania

Cadence synchronize with crossdomain planning. Innovation and Planning Iteration. Becoming a SPC is a dream many have but only a few can realize. Here’s a simple guide to help you pass the SPC Certification. Before we proceed, here’s a word of advice.

2022 98
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SAFe Simply Explained (Part 1): Core Competencies and Principles

Inloox

Continuous Learning Culture: A company should promote continuous learning and drive innovation to exceed the expectations of employees, customers and society. 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. So agility in itself is nothing new for many companies.

2021 100
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Improving SAFe thru Professional Scrum

Scrum.org

SAFe's perspective is that "Nothing beats an Agile Team" and it doesn't try to reinvent the wheel or even innovate too much when it comes to the Team level. When it comes to the Program level SAFe doesn't try to reinvent either - but here it uses Scrum/Kanban as a starting point and innovates in order to deal with some specific challenges of larger programs. SAFe has a cadence at the Team and Program levels.

2018 114
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The Complete Guide to Scaling Agile and SAFe for Business Agility

Agilemania

The cadence of development of multiple teams. Intel: Intel was reeling under pressure to constantly innovate while controlling costs and maintaining quality. . What is Scaling in Agile? Agile is a set of values and principles.

2022 98
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58 Product Owner Theses

Scrum.org

A Product Owner is an innovator at heart and thus a value creator for customers and organizations if given a chance to work in an agile manner. Roadmap planning is—like Product Backlog refinement—a continuous effort, just at an extended cadence.

2020 232
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Product Discovery Anti-Patterns Leading to Failure

Scrum.org

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).

2021 154
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Creating an Agile Transformation Roadmap

Leading Agile

Basecamp 5 – Invest to Learn/Innovation. There should be a regular cadence with the leadership team to formally review intermediate deliverables, challenge assumptions, and identify risks.

2021 147
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How do you implement SAFe agile in your organization?

Agilemania

Apply cadence and synchronize with cross-domain planning. The Spotify model isn’t a framework but it has helped organizations around the world improve productivity and foster innovation by concentrating on autonomy, communication, accountability, and quality.

2021 98
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The 10 steps to an Agile transformation (with free checklist)

Planio

But a full Agile transformation isn’t just about the development process you use — it’s a way to bring creativity, innovation, and lean operations to every aspect of your business. More creativity and innovation. More creativity and innovation.

2022 78
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Beginner’s Guide to Kanban for Agile Marketing

Digite

As a result, After Meetings tend to be fertile ground for ideas to improve the process and generate innovations. They must happen at regular intervals, but their cadence doesn’t need to be tied to any other cycle of Kanban. We’re honored to republish this blog post ‘Beginner’s Guide to Kanban for Agile Marketing’ by Andrea Fryrear which was originally published in the Agile Sherpas blog!

2018 110
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Minimal measures for minimal stability in a complex world (that will help you optimize your Scrum)

Gunther Verheyen

Open offices kill innovation and creativity, even more when combined with clean wall policies. Scrum, in its more general definition, is a simple framework to help us address complex challenges.

2019 55
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Same Same but Different †

Herding Cats

In this domain innovative is also the basis of success. The notion that innovation and engineering - software engineering - are somehow in conflict is common. . Creativity is the first step in innovation, which is the successful implementaion of those novel, approproate ideas. And innovation, is absolutley vital for long-term corporate success - "Motivating creativity in organmizations: On doing whay you love and loving what you do," [2].

2017 37
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Unravelling PI Planning

Digite

As the PI has 5 iterations with multiple teams working in cadence to achieve a common vision, it is important for these teams to assemble and plan out the course of action for the entire PI duration. The PI Planning meeting is organized in the 5th iteration of the PI which is the Innovation and Planning Iteration and thus does not need to be scheduled on an additional timeline. Img Src: Youtube.com/VanceLowe.

2017 60
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Shift from Annual to Continuous Planning to Enable Agility [Webinar]

Planview

Having a regular cadence that allows you to measure value against new demand is incredibly valuable, as it isn’t disruptive when measured against the annual plan and allows you to forecast on a regular basis. Finally, you will be better able to realize strategy by preventing the loss of strategy and innovation to lower priority investments and improving your ability to measure and monitor key initiatives.

2018 60
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Managing Remote Teams: How the World’s Top Startups Keep Remote Teams Connected and Creative

Planio

As Zapier ’s data team manager, Muness Castle , explains, people new to remote work can have problems adapting to the lack of a regular cadence, structure, and the connection with fellow teammates: "I've worked ~15 years on co-located teams and the last ~5 on remote teams.

2020 88
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What Are OKRs? How to Use OKRs for Planning (and Achieving) Your Goals

Planio

You might want to set a cadence that includes: OKR planning sessions: Bring together a small group of people that work together to plan and talk through objectives and key results for the next cycle. And while this is a fantastic way to motivate your team to look for unique and innovative solutions, if not communicated properly it can cause some serious headaches. How did Google grow from 40 to 88,000 employees and $100+ billion in global revenue?

2018 133
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System of Delivery: An Intro to Our Governance Model

Leading Agile

Just briefly, walking through this is you know: predictability, quality, early ROI, lower cost, innovation and product fit. Also, by having the work visible like this, and having our cadence of meetings and clarity of rules, we know what it means to be done with portfolio prioritization before we start writing code. All those can become very clear in — what the state of the work is, who needs to be involved, what the cadence of the meetings are.

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Leveraging Agile to Get Predictable

Leading Agile

Check out the predictability webinar, and then click below to access the next five webinars that cover the five additional business drivers on-demand, including: Quality, Cost Savings, Early ROI, Product Fit, and Innovation. Agile isn’t ever really about Agile.

2020 102
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 Executive’s Guide To Large-Scale Agile Transformation & Sustaining An Adaptive Enterprise w/ Mike Cottmeyer

Leading Agile

But a lot of that value conversation is some around predictability and return on investment and product fit and innovation and such.

2021 111
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How Charles Byrd Gets It Done: Project Management & Networking Tips

Project Management Hacks

Out of college with a BBA in information technology I started on a help desk providing 2nd and 3rd level support for Cadence, a Silicon Valley software company. This not only brought a spotlight to the projects creating a buzz, it garnered executive management support along with the company’s prestigious IT Innovation Award. In today’s Q&A interview, you will learn how Charles Byrd developed his productivity practices, managed products and built relationships.

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