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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.

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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. 7 Different Kanban Cadences Meeting Types.

2021 78
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Review People Over Process

Henny Portman

Levine wrote with People Over Process – Leadership for Agility a very pragmatic and down to earth book about leadership and agile projects. It puts the focus on the software and the related business processes in a powerful way by using different scenarios. To order: People over Process.

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7 Factors for running an effective Kanban Replenishment Meeting

Digite

In 2015, in a blog post called Kanban Cadences , David Anderson laid out a set of 7 Kanban cadences or meetings that provide comprehensive opportunities for feedback, planning, and review in an enterprise. These are based on our own experience using Kanban for our own product development as well as that of many of our customers who have implemented this critical cadence. – and the replenishment process will need to reflect each of those classes of service as well.

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An Agile Scrum Process Diagram for Strategic PM

The Strategic Project Manager

This post outlines the essentials of the agile scrum process. It then delves a little deeper into the most important element of the process – the sprint. It then looks at implications of the agile scrum process for project management and strategy. A Basic Agile Scrum Process Diagram. The diagram above provides a basic structure for organizing a scrum process. Sprints set a cadence for the team. What is your experience with the agile scrum process?

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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. Agile agile project management improving project management Process compliance stupidityWe hope that by conducting effective ceremonies we will achieve the agile trinity of improved value delivery, better quality and more fun. But these objectives might be reached via multiple paths so we might not be able to prove causality between our ceremonies and those objectives.

2018 220
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To Fix Your OKRs – Go Back to First (Familiar) Principles

Scrum.org

People can use other processes to manage their work toward the OKRs. . This might seem like a complex process to pull off… the good news is that there’s a lot to learn from agile ways of working about facilitating such processes. Figuring out the right Cadence . Context.

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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. It’s an essential role… because without her, we risked putting any old thing live and ending up with software conflicts and no process to roll back changes if we messed up.

2022 370
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How to Become a Better Project Communicator

Project Risk Coach

Imagine a business analyst who is mapping a business process. Notice the cadence, pauses, and the repetitions in the speech.

2020 397
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Choosing a Development Approach

International Institute for Learning

Product variables include innovation, scope stability, requirements certainty, ease of change, and delivery cadence. Methods and processes you are familiar with is conducive to waterfall approaches. Cutting edge technology or experimental processes work better with adaptive approaches.

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Creating a Common Collective for Distributed Teams

The Lazy Project Manager

Setting up a consistent cadence for feedback can reassure both the employee and team manager that the best work is being produced. Following the right processes and going above and beyond in collaboration practices will assure that your team is working towards the same goals at the same pace.

2020 436
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13 Reasons to Choose Agile Project Management Methods

LiquidPlanner

Are you thinking about introducing agile processes to your project management methodology? You’re having conversations about the process and the deliverables regularly so the team has opportunities to raise concerns.

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

Scrum.org

We also streamlined our legacy deployment process into CI/CD pipelines which removed a painful friction to frequent deployments. . A bonus on top of that, would be deep knowledge about the business processes relevant to your product. CADENCE & RELIABILITY. BACKGROUND.

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Influencing the eternal optimism of a delivery team

Kiron Bondale

Teams which don’t use feedback loops with their products and their processes should not consider themselves to be very agile. For those teams which use an iteration-based cadence for their delivery such as those who have implemented the Scrum framework there have multiple feedback loops to help them improve. When I teach agile fundamentals classes, I frequently emphasize the importance of inspection and adaptation.

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A Deeper Look: Top Changes in the New 2020 Scrum Guide for Agile Practitioners

MPUG

Introduction of Cadence. For the first time, we are introduced of a concept called “Cadence.” Cadence is used in other Agile frameworks such as Kanban , and is basically a rhythm that gets developed as one continuously follows a set of events over a period of time.

2020 116
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Unpacking Agile Transformation: The System of Delivery

Leading Agile

The idea is that you teach folks how the process is supposed to work, and they will inspect and adapt and remove impediments along the way. The net effect is that we bastardize the process to accommodate the disfunction.

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The Difference Between The Kanban Method and Scrum

Digite

In this article, he outlines the similarities of the two as WIP Limiting, Pull-based systems – with cadences and a focus on learning – while also explaining their differences. Incremental delivery of software also mitigates risk and maximizes the opportunity to learn from a business, process, and technical perspective. Cadences. Scrum prescribes a cadence and that all activities happen within that timebox. This also includes cadences. Introduction.

2018 94
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How to Build & Manage a Successful Creative Team

Brad Egeland

Develop a system for processing creative requests. Agile systems are crucial in project management, so one of the best things that you can do for your creative team is establish a clear and simple protocol for making, receiving, and processing creative requests. Multiple people have a hand in the creative process, so seamless collaboration is key. Set a good meeting cadence, and then improve it.

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Mastering the (new) Agile Coaching Mindset for the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR)

International Institute for Learning

As we adopt a continuous planning cadence, the ability to manage uncertainty with incomplete data becomes much more tolerable because we know we will have the opportunity to inspect and adapt at more frequent intervals.

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Maintain a sense of change urgency through agility

Kiron Bondale

But the steps in Kotter’s model, like PMBOK processes, are not to be followed in a purely sequential manner. . The specific cadence varies based on the complexity and duration of a transformation. According to John Kotter’s model for leading change, the first step to overcoming inertia requires us to instill a sense of true urgency in those we need to support, implement and sustain the change.

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Comprehensive Guide to Becoming A SAFe Agilist

Agilemania

Planning and Execution of Program Increment: A SAFe Agilist has envisioned a roadmap for the success of the Agile Development and successful SAFe implementation process. Apply cadence, synchronize with cross-domain planning.

2021 98
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How do you know if your team is being agile?

Kiron Bondale

Are regular feedback loops well established for both the product itself and delivery process and do these loops result in changes to the “what” and the “how”? Whether these loops follow a fixed cadence (e.g.

2019 149
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Agile Scrum Roles, Ceremonies, Strategy and Projects

The Strategic Project Manager

There are a number of specific regular ‘ceremonies’ that are part of the ongoing agile scrum process. Here is a list of the primary agile scrum ceremonies that together constitute the agile scrum process.

2022 98
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Is SAFe® (Scaled Agile Framework®) not Agile?

Agilemania

The entire organization had to be in the process, not just a few self-managed teams. It provided us with a unique framework and guidelines for the entire organization, including the chief executives, to be part of the process. So, the perception is made that SAFe is process heavy.

2021 98
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7 tips for setting more effective goals

Scrum.org

Various A-B-C formulas lead us to believe it’s a straightforward process, but setting and using goals effectively is challenging. Goal setting is a process. 6: Establish a cadence to inspect and adapt different goals .

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Project Communication Management: What is it all about?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In this article, I’ll explain project communication management, why it matters, give an overview of the communications process, and some examples of where you might apply it on your own projects. THE COMMUNICATIONS MANAGEMENT PROCESS.

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5 Tips to Build a Harmonious Project Team in 2023

LiquidPlanner

Whenever possible, implement business process automation to help your team automate manual, repetitive tasks. Harmonious Focus 2: Set ground rules and act as a harmonizing influence Set a cadence for how your team should behave and work from project initiation to completion.

2023 148
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Agile Communications Plans

Leading Answers

It is this predictable cadence of show-and-tell sessions that creates the dolphins-versus-submarines comparison.  XP has the practice “informative workspace,” Scrum encourages “transparency,” and Kanban development talks about making “process policies visible.”

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What Are Feedback Loops and How to Implement Them in Your Business?

nTask

They are a sure way of detecting gaps so that actionable decisions can be taken and the processes improved. In a feedback loop, the output received is used as an input to drive future processes. Steps Involved in Feedback Loops: What is feedback loop process?

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How to Become a Better Communicator

Project Risk Coach

Imagine a business analyst who is mapping a business process. Notice the cadence, pauses, and the repetitions in the speech. Project managers spend a large part of each day communicating—facilitating meetings, emailing stakeholders, responding to texts, writing reports, and having one-on-one conversations. We are so busy, we rarely take the time to think about the effectiveness of our communication. How can we become a better communicator? Here are five practical ways.

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What is Lean Portfolio Management? Primary Focus | Objectives

Agilemania

Strengthening the output – one of the ways one can maximize the output is, by managing the backlog of investment and finding the opportunities from that and also by managing the WIP across the multiple teams to speed up the delivery process.

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The Three — Wait: Four — Elements of Empiricism

Scrum.org

The emergent process and work must be visible to those performing the work as well as those receiving the work. In my experience, many internal transparency issues are rooted in organizational processes or practices or particular individuals. TL; DR: Elements of Empiricism.

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Getting started with a Definition of Done (DoD)

Scrum.org

Since Professional Scrum Teams build software that works , stop, create a working increment of software that meets your definition of done (DoD), and then start Sprinting, and review what you mean by “working” continuously, and at least on a regular cadence.

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Scrum Events Reduce Meetings

Scrum.org

I think of the Sprint as the heartbeat of Scrum because it sets the cadence and frequency for the other events. Members discuss how the Sprint went regarding individuals, interactions, processes, tools, and their Definition of Done.

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How Agile Testing Can Improve Business Outcomes

Leading Agile

And whether you are producing software or some other product, the process can be applied to many different contexts. The Process of Producing Working, Tested Product. Over time, developing this regular cadence enables the organization to drive toward its desired end state.

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Dealing With “Remote Sprawl”: How to Manage Teams, People, and Projects Across Time Zones

Planio

In this guide, we’re going to cover the tools, processes, and cultural shifts you need to make to successfully collaborate from wherever you are, Jump to a section: How to reverse Remote Sprawl: 10 reasons teams spread across time zones fall apart (and how to avoid them).

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Releases and Deadlines in Agile

Herding Cats

Cadence Release - when a fixed period ends, go with what is ready to go. Cadence Release paradigm, is a flow-based approach. The variability of the development work is minimized through the planned cadence. Focusing on meeting the needs of the customer or market is key to success in the Cadence approach. Success of the Cadence approach relies on: Schedule margin is needed to protect the deliverables. Process is King.

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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. IT are the guardians of that process. Have you been asked to pull together a strategy planning meeting agenda?

2022 327
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Creating a Risk-Adjusted Backlog

Leading Answers

If we were following the PMI risk management process, this would involve the qualitative and quantitative risk management steps. Still, they usually have a good feel for when to avoid threats or exploit opportunities, and I have found them to be receptive when we talk through the process.

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Using OKRs with Scrum and Evidence Based Management

Scrum.org

Embedding OKRs into Scrum's Inspect/Adapt Cadence. OKRs are a great framework for setting goals. Setting high quality goals, goal clarity, and self-management, positively affect team performance [3].

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