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Your Strategy Planning Meeting Agenda (with Template)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Have you been asked to pull together a strategy planning meeting agenda? And you’re wondering what other people do in their strategic planning sessions… I’ve been there! In this article, I’ll explain what a strategic planning meeting can cover and share a sample agenda you can customize for your strategy sessions.

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To Fix Your OKRs – Go Back to First (Familiar) Principles

Scrum.org

Avoid … mapping all planned initiatives to OKRs. . On the other hand, Using output/activity-based goals to work ON the business fixes plans, specifications, and designs too early. Figuring out the right Cadence . The right cadence also provides an opportunity to reinforce/communicate strategic priorities and focus. .

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Everything You Need to Know About Release Managers

Rebel’s Guide to PM

We had a fortnightly release (and therefore a giant scrabble to try to get your changes in before the cut-off and presented to the CAB in time), but your company might have monthly releases or use a different cadence. As a release manager, there are three key areas of responsibility: planning, scheduling, and coordination.

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The Forgotten Scrum Event

Scrum.org

Chances are that you said something like “Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, and…. And yet, the Sprint serves a pivotal role in Scrum by setting the cadence for feedback, inspection and adaptation in Scrum. The Sprint begins with the Sprint Planning event and ends after the Sprint Retrospective.

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

Scrum.org

CADENCE & RELIABILITY. CADENCE: What was the sprint cadence you folks started off with? What was sustainable cadence after improvements? In addition to all 5 scrum events, we added a pre-planning meeting at the halfway mark of the sprint to look ahead at the next sprint. UAT is part of DOD. .

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Why Your Annual Operating Plan Is A Lie and What To Do About It

Leading Agile

You prepare an annual operating plan outlining your budget and allocations every year. WHERE THE PLAN GOES WRONG. Projects that you targeted did not start when you planned. Unplanned events, outages, and work eat at the money you planned to invest in a new value. The projects can be planned in detail.

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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. Agile Team and Agile Release Train Cadences. A typical timebox duration is two weeks.

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