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The Rhythmic Dance of Agile with Cadence

MPUG

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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"Why can?t we plan Sprints accurately with velocity?"

Scrum.org

Our problem is that we can’t plan Sprints accurately with velocity,” he said. This started an interesting conversation and a pattern that we see commonly emerged; teams not crafting a Sprint Goal during the Sprint Planning event. One alternative to velocity based Sprint Planning is capacity based Sprint Planning.

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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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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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How effective are your agile ceremonies?

Kiron Bondale

The Scrum Guide calls sprints the heart of Scrum as these time boxes set the cadence for all other events. Sprint planning should answer the “what” and “how” of delivery for an upcoming sprint. But to know if the Scrum heart is healthy we could track achievement of goals and value delivered sprint-over-sprint.

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The Three — Wait: Four — Elements of Empiricism

Scrum.org

In other words, every Scrum event is an opportunity to inspect and adapt something: Sprint Planning : Inspects the Product Backlog and the Product Goal and adapts the Sprint Backlog and the Sprint Goal. To help with inspection, Scrum provides cadence in the form of its five events.”. Scrum: 20 Sprint Planning Anti-Patterns.

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Unpacking Agile Transformation: The System of Delivery

Leading Agile

Through our work at LeadingAgile, we’ve come to believe there are three core systems necessary to instantiate and sustain an Agile enterprise. Think about things like how we write user stories, how we estimate work, how we run planning cadences, how we deal with technical concerns, and how we measure done.

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