The IIL Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

This rhythm of exertion and recovery resonates deeply with the cadence of leadership in business. As the year winds down, let’s take a moment to reflect on our approach to leadership. The memories of training came flooding back: the early mornings, long roads, discipline, and above all, the invaluable rest days.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 15, 2021

The project manager often manages the project, the team and all the related tasks in a project management software. Ideally, project management software allows for team collaboration as well as planning, so teams can be at there best, like with ProjectManager. Need to know the right person to ask a question?

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 4, 2022

The duration of the Sprint is timeboxed to a maximum of one month, establishing a cadence within which the Scrum team works together to deliver value. Digital.ai’s 15th annual State of Agile Report reveals that agile adoption grew from 37% in 2020 to 86% in 2021 for software teams. Professional Agile Leadership. Conclusion.

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International Institute for Learning

APRIL 19, 2023

DA was developed in 2011 by Scott Ambler and Mark Lines and is based on Scott’s work at Rational Software and IBM. To coordinate the teams, SAFe applies cadence and synchronization. Cadence means all teams are aligned to a standard, two-week delivery cycle. They emerged about a decade after the Agile Manifesto.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 20, 2021

This was a conversation with my friend Matt about his new role as a software leader in a billion-dollar organization. Solve those problems with your leadership, let me know if I can help. As you already know, there are zero ways for you to invoke any lasting change to the teams without team partnership and without leadership buy-in.

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Inloox

JULY 1, 2021

What usually started in software development can now be extended to the entire company and thus, change the way people collaborate. Lean Agile Leadership: Managers are the very core of lean agile development and business agility. These fixed, i.e. unalterable, ten principles aim to influence leadership behavior and decision making.

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Project Bliss

AUGUST 19, 2018

If you’re training employees on complex software, you can alter your delivery to meet the needs of your audience. Research shows that presentation style has an impact on the perception of leadership charisma. Speed or cadence. Cadence is how fast or slow you talk. leadership #projectmanagement Click To Tweet.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

To use the leadership styles model we discuss in the Leading SAFe class - the starting point is more of an orchestrating and technical expert kind of leadership stance and the goal should be to evolve towards a more serving the team and the process style over time. SAFe has a cadence at the Team and Program levels. I’m excited!

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 6, 2022

Strong leadership in projects is important for success, so getting your project board and/or project steering group set up as soon as you can is a good start. For example, on one project, I had the CFO steering group, and attendees were all SLT (senior leadership team members). Who will get you access to the resources you require?

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International Institute for Learning

JANUARY 18, 2023

For this project there are two main deliverables, the bulletin boards and the software that manages and displays the information. The development approach might look like this: Software works well with iterative or incremental development approaches where you can experiment, receive feedback, and make changes. Delivery cadence.

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Henny Portman

JULY 26, 2020

Levine wrote with People Over Process – Leadership for Agility a very pragmatic and down to earth book about leadership and agile projects. The classic formulation of agile in the Agile Manifesto has no role for leadership. As stated, the facilitative leadership model contains the triangle rigor, efficiency and alignment (REA).

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Scrum.org

MAY 27, 2021

We know Agile is not just for software teams. In the Sprint Planning event, for example, leaders can use a decentralised, servant leadership approach to communicate their intent to their teams. Our experience has shown that time and again, Agile working practices benefit all sorts of teams. 1 – Planning.

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Planview

JUNE 1, 2021

A continuous planning cadence – quarterly, monthly, or even weekly – enables organizations to be ready to move fast when change occurs, or new opportunities appear on the horizon. We gain this visibility using our own enterprise Kanban software, Planview LeanKit TM. His leadership has made our process seamless.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

To use the leadership styles model we discuss in the Leading SAFe class - the starting point is more of an orchestrating and technical expert kind of leadership stance and the goal should be to evolve towards a more serving the team and the process style over time. SAFe has a cadence at the Team and Program levels. I’m excited!

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Even more interesting is when senior leadership mandated a 2-week cadence. 2 weeks might be a long time to wait for feedback and an expensive amount of software to waste if it’s wrong. Another is because the person championing Scrum in the organization set that Sprint length. What if your customer’s needs change quickly?

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Cadence and synchronization: Teams should work in fixed iterations, known as sprints, and synchronize their work to deliver a consistent flow of value. This cadence allows for regular feedback and course correction, so that teams stay on track and deliver high-quality results.

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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. Delivery-level to Leadership). At LeadingAgile, the Transformation journey starts by focusing on predictability.

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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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Agilemania

JANUARY 24, 2022

The cadence of development of multiple teams. Short for Scaled Agile Framework, SAFe is a foundational platform that allows Agile-based delivery to scale for enterprise systems and software. It was formed around four primary bodies of knowledge: agile software development, lean product development, systems thinking, and DevOps.

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Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

No amount of leadership attitude or mindset will change this.” And we can have multiple teams that are integrated in such a way that they produce integrated deliverables on regular cadences and where we have our portfolio items that actually move through our portfolio at a predictable rate.

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Agilemania

DECEMBER 13, 2021

41% proclaimed absence of leadership to be the main problem. The groundwork for SAFe was formed in 4 knowledge areas – agile software development, lean product development, systems thinking, and DevOps. Leadership: SAFe inculcates the Lean-Agile mindset which is necessary to become a Lean-Agile leader.

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Velociteach

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Acceptable variances, reporting cadence, and status meetings are addressed in the plan. For example, construction projects must follow safety requirements, and software projects may follow process maturity models. Traditional projects tend toward command-and-control approaches, while agile embraces servant leadership practices.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 20, 2023

I think the servant leadership coaching world has talked about just be there for your teams and support them. I’m a huge advocate of servant leadership and taking care of your teams. And teams have a cadence where they’re operating with intent but within constraints. This is a leadership responsibility.

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Planio

JULY 4, 2022

But often, the real issue is that they’re missing a key ingredient: leadership. Agile ceremonies — also known as Scrum ceremonies or just ‘events’ — are specific events that provide a structured framework for iterative software development processes. Working this way reduces the risk that you’re building the wrong software.

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Resource Guru

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Setup also reveals key reasons for clients leaving agencies as: client dissatisfaction with strategic approaches, and changes in agency leadership and personnel Miscommunication is fertile ground for misunderstandings and frustrations. Failure to do so falls squarely on leadership and project managers concerned about retention.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 23, 2022

What do you do with planning cadences? And the three things are just really simple, team’s backlogs, working test, the software and the way Scrum works, we know this, right? And so, the evolution of these expeditions, the base camps and so just to put into software language, like an expedition is like a slice.

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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. Others use project management software such as Wrike to plan, schedule, and monitor progress across all active initiatives. Technology plays a huge role in that.

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Planio

AUGUST 9, 2021

What is the best project scheduling software to use? Leadership. 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!), How do Agile teams create a project schedule?

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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. However, this is not always the case, even when leadership teams are fully committed to Agile. It happened with RUP, it happens with SAFe, it happens with Scrum, it happens with everything.

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Function Point

JULY 20, 2016

Now please understand, I was not in the software business and I didn’t know how to write code at the time, so this was not an easy concept to jump into. His skills help me drive the cultural aspects of Function Point that I have found to be critical to my leadership. Don’t hesitate to contact me at 1.877.731.2522 (ext.

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Function Point

JULY 20, 2016

Now please understand, I was not in the software business and I didn’t know how to write code at the time, so this was not an easy concept to jump into. His skills help me drive the cultural aspects of Function Point that I have found to be critical to my leadership. Don’t hesitate to contact me at 1.877.731.2522 (ext.

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LiquidPlanner

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

A work management software tool can help, but only if everyone looks at it. When your software tools use the power of planning intelligence, it’s easy to bring the team together around transparent goals. The solution is using smart software to bring all the elements you need to run a project together in a centralized location.

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LiquidPlanner

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Our project management software can help you facilitate team happiness. Now, our project management software can’t actually take your team out to lunch—another key happiness indicator—but you can certainly schedule events for team bonding that block off availability. Try to establish a set cadence for when your team delivers work.

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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

AUGUST 1, 2022

For most development teams and startups, ‘becoming Agile’ starts and ends with how you build software. Build a leadership team that can get your required buy-in. Most people’s only interaction with the Agile methodology is through software development. What are your current leadership and management processes ?

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 10, 2021

TL;DR; Without working software, you can’t build trust and you don’t know when you will get the next piece of working software. Once you accept this, and quality becomes non-negotiable, your Dev e lopers can focus on creating usable increments of working software. Professional Developers create working software.

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Velociteach

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Since only a third of the features in enterprise software are commonly used, delivering incrementally reduces waste. Teams conform to a 2-week delivery cadence, creating a standard operating rhythm and predictability. Shifting from a fixed- to an incremental-delivery mindset enables opportunities.

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