Leading Agile

MAY 10, 2021

I walked into the conference room to meet with the VP of enterprise Agile Transformation. The VP stated the Agile teams were in ‘chaos’ since being taught the concept of Lean Agile portfolios. At its core, to earn and deserve the trust requested, it’s the ability to make and meet commitments. Needless to say, it was about me.

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MPUG

JUNE 28, 2021

Now, you might be thinking what exactly a dance has to do with cadence in Agile? Let’s start first with the definition of cadence. Cadence – Definition and Basics. One can define cadence in Agile as follows: Cadence is a regular, predictable pattern of development work in Agile. Working with Single Cadence.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 23, 2022

What do you do with planning cadences? Yes, going to conferences, building networks, you know, meeting with people I got to meet, you know, people who were like my heroes like, Jim Highsmith and Alastair Coburn and Christopher [unsure 05:55] and Joshua Kerievsky and you know, Kent Beck and like all these guys, right?

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Velociteach

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

So everyone has to, one, know their part, but also really lean in and listen. This isn’t your average podcast – it’s a symphony of ideas, where project management meets the jazzed-up art of success. So we’re going to lean in, we’re going to listen, and wherever he wants to take this song, we’re going to go with it.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 31, 2020

When did we first meet? – Yeah, I thought that was kind of funny cause you know, back that was like pre-leading Agile and so you know, when David Anderson sends you an email and says you should meet this guy, it’s like, okay. Yeah, I’ll go meet this guy. And so you and I go way back. Do you remember the story?

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 14, 2021

Lean/Agile Leadership. Both SAFe and Scrum/Nexus emphasize the need for a different style of leadership - leaders who serve, have a growth mindset, lead by example, live and breath Lean/Agile principles and practices, and strive for relentless improvement. . SAFe’s theoretical base is more verbose but essentially similar. .

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

I’d like to consider the following in this post: Sustainable Pace. Sustainable Pace. By setting a sustainable pace for the work, teams were able to maintain a steady rate of delivery, leading to greater predictability and hence easier planning. Note: sustainable is good; sustained is not.). Stable Team.

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Like imagine if you’re a 30 year architect running a COBOL mainframe system doing a payments processing engine there where nothing can be off by a penny and you’re having all these problems and somebody comes along and says, man, if you were just doing daily standup meetings, everything would work out. It is cognitive dissonance.

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Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Approach Analysis : A technique to analyze the various methods that can be used to meet the project's goals. Projects might additional calendars as well to show resource availability, communication cadence, etc. The kickoff meeting presents an opportunity for the two teams to know each other and to define roles and relationships.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 17, 2021

And so one of the things that I’ve learned, meeting with the C-suite and candidly selling people on the idea of how to do this. And so sustainable business agility. So what I’m gonna do for the next 40 minutes or so is that about how much time we have 40, 50 minutes, something like that. And it’s interesting.

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MPUG

JUNE 1, 2022

So we could admit we’ve had standup meetings where we didn’t mention risks or we didn’t evaluate or reevaluate or oops, didn’t close out that risk that should be closed out. Definitely, there has to be the communications planning involved with that as well to more of a lean and effective type of method.

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