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All technical debt is a risk to the product and to your business

Scrum.org

All technical debt is a risk to the product and to your business. All technical debt is risk to the product and to your business. There is no asset securing that risk, no insurance for it. Technical debt is 100% risk. Even before 2012 Leadership, and engineers, had noticed that things were getting bogged down.

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Managing Project Assumptions and Risks

The IIL Blog

By Alan Zucker We make hundreds of assumptions and take small risks daily. Recovering from these risks may be inconvenient but not horribly impactful. Project assumptions and risks are not as casual. Project assumptions and risks are not as casual. Our risks were identified, but a response strategy was never created.

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Managing Project Assumptions & Risks

Velociteach

We make hundreds of assumptions and take small risks daily. Recovering from these risks may be inconvenient but not horribly impactful. Project assumptions and risks are not as casual. Project assumptions and risks are not as casual. Thoughtlessly making assumptions or ignoring risks can lead to critical problems.

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How We Reduced Cycle Time from 164 Days to 8 Days in 6 Months

Scrum.org

ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE LEADERSHIP. Additionally, it took getting leadership alignment and consistent messaging from all levels. . To shorten the feedback loop and reduce risk, our business stakeholders are part of our Scrum team and conduct UAT inside the Sprint. CADENCE & RELIABILITY. UAT is part of DOD. .

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Questions to ask a project management mentor

Rebel’s Guide to PM

At regular meetings You’ll find a regular cadence and probably settle into a regular agenda or routine with the check in sessions. The first meeting is likely to be all about getting to know each other, creating rapport and setting the intention going forward. Here are some sample questions you can use to keep the conversation moving.

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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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Use MVIs for team improvements

Kiron Bondale

Whether a team uses a scheduled cadence for reviewing their WoW such as the use of retrospectives in Scrum, or they use a just-in-time approach they will come up with improvement ideas. If you liked this article, why not pick up my book Easy in Theory, Difficult in Practice which contains 100 other lessons on project leadership?