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A 2021 Guide to Kanban Cadences to help Align Your Business Communication

nTask

To many of the fans of project management out there in the market, these rhythms are known as Kanban cadences. What are Kanban Cadences? To learn about Kanban cadences, you need to know about cadences first. The latter is the closest to what we can say for certain that Kanban cadences relate to.

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Returning organization back to the present

Scrum.org

Does an organization live in the present or in the past? The answer seems obvious: of course in the present! A customer arrives, they are (in the present) getting our service. And these restrictions also are not created in the present, they are the past, often they are the product of events that occurred years and decades ago.

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Everything You Need to Know About Release Managers

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It wasn’t until I worked in IT as a project manager that I had a lot of contact with the release management process. My software projects needed releasing, so we had to follow the formal process and engage with the release manager to make sure that the bug fixes and new features got pushed to the production environment in a controlled way.

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How to Become a Better Project Communicator

Project Risk Coach

Just because we speak or make presentations a lot does not mean that we are improving. Imagine a business analyst who is mapping a business process. Notice the cadence, pauses, and the repetitions in the speech. How can we become a better project communicator? Practice makes permanent.” We can actually become worse.

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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. Having read the policy/process document/standard operating procedure on Y, I have a few questions. What might my blind spots be in this process? Can I tell you what’s happened since we last spoke?

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Leadership Futures from the Next Generation: Adapting, Empowering, Thriving

The IIL Blog

I’ve witnessed in these relationships the subtle, yet profound impact language and process has on our understanding of ‘evolving’ an organisation from one form to another. To some, the formal term, ‘change management’, often carries a weight that suggests a more top-down and directive process.

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Your Strategy Planning Meeting Agenda (with Template)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In other words, what do you want to get out of your strategic planning process? There’s no fixed cadence for strategy conversations. If you are putting together your first strategy or doing a complete overhaul, you’ll need to spend a lot more time on it to get the strategic process set up and the relevant data collected.

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