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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.

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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? 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. Strategy planning doesn’t just happen.

2022 327
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Capabilities Release or Cadence Release

Herding Cats

So do we pick a Capabilities Release or a Cadence Release? Cadence release puts value out on a periodic basis. Those capabilities don't always show up in the Cadence, but that's a separate issue as well. . For the Cadence Release, we need an estimate (with accuracy and precision) of the probability of showing up with needed Features on the needed Date. Strategy is Not the Same as Operational Effectiveness.

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Agile Scrum Roles, Ceremonies, Strategy and Projects

The Strategic Project Manager

This post reviews the basics of agile scrum roles, ceremonies, and their impact on developing strategy and managing projects. Sprint – This is a time box defined for regular and consistent work cadence and delivery. Agile Scrum and Strategy.

2022 98
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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. This could be one of your existing monthly or quarterly planning or strategy meeting.

2017 151
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ESP Compared to Kanban Method

Digite

He highlights this with the adoption path for Kanban cadences (meetings) as to how Kanban is bottom-up and inside-out approach whereas ESP is the top-down and outside-in approach. These were the things that enabled the optimal and effective use of kanban systems – topics such as: probabilistic forecasting and statistical analysis; qualitative risk assessment; real option theory; connecting strategy to operational mechanisms such as Kanban capacity allocation; and so forth.

2017 89
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Project242: Build Strength in Multiple Areas, Not Just a Few

Bridge the Gap Consulting

These workouts include heavy tension and faster cadence at lower resistance. Here are some of the key things I’ve learned in addition to project management, building those other “professional muscles”: Strategy : This was a HUGE eye opener.

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

Scrum.org

OKRs aim to help you execute effectively on what matters most (your strategy), while overcoming silos, politics and turf wars , the ongoing grind (aka whirlwind ), and other management challenges. Figuring out the right Cadence . There’s no need for an additional ongoing OKR cadence.

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Professional Development Day 2022 – IGNITE!

International Institute for Learning

Where is your leadership strategy now? You will see how to show Leaders that their strategy is being eaten by slow decisions that disrupt schedules, drive cost overruns and produce disastrous outcomes. Often, we have a disconnect between strategy and execution.

2022 98
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How To Implement Lean Portfolio Management?

Agilemania

Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) involves connecting strategy to execution by using lean principles. Budgets are allocated to execute an enterprise’s strategy by portfolio management teams. Review of strategy alignment. What is LPM?

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Strategy (#Strategy). Here's how to connect dots between strategy, mission success, programmatics, and technical performance management in units of measure meaningful to the decision makers. Capabilities Based Planning (V2) - Capability-based planning fits naturally with Strategy Based Planning and Business Process Improvement. Successful Digital Transformation Starts with a well defined Executable Strategy for Success - PMI San Diego Chapter , 11 July 2018.

2019 42
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A Deeper Look: Top Changes in the New 2020 Scrum Guide for Agile Practitioners

MPUG

This definition of the ‘goal’ can create confusion for many who understand project-program-portfolio management and how goals aligns with the vision, mission, strategy, and objectives of an organization. As the saying goes, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.”.

2020 116
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Map Your Route to Mastering Agile Fluency

Scrum.org

And then, based on the company strategy and portfolio management decisions, an estimated number of teams to be funded, created and focused to work in that value area with that leader. Agile Fluency® Model is a fantastic model. We just love it.

2023 175
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What is Lean Portfolio Management? Primary Focus | Objectives

Agilemania

LPM also known as Lean Portfolio management, refers to how senior leadership uses lean principles and systems thinking approaches to align strategy with execution. In a strategic portfolio review event, all strategies, implementations, and budgets are aligned continuously.

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

International Institute for Learning

Operating in a fast-paced world with threats and opportunities requires flexible responses with adaptive strategies, fast performance, and funded innovation. Like you, I’ve been following the discussions on the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) for some time now.

2022 59
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Unpacking Agile Transformation: The System of Delivery

Leading Agile

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. So if we agree that Agile Transformation is worth talking about, we need a better way of talking about it.

2021 77
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How to Build & Manage a Successful Creative Team

Brad Egeland

It’s at this point that you can also implement the next strategy: Collaborating with agencies and freelancers. Set a good meeting cadence, and then improve it. Whether your creative team is made up of five people or 50, setting a meeting cadence that makes sense for everyone is a great way to support your team in their day-to-day responsibilities — not just the major collaborative projects.

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

nTask

Constant improvement requires delving into the loopholes and adjusting your strategies accordingly. Once you have analyzed the gaps in the process, you can carve out strategies to solve the problem. Let us take a look at each cadence and how it works: 1. Strategy Review.

2021 78
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How to Assemble a Project Team

ProjectManager.com

The best way to prevent this from happening is by setting a cadence for meetings, requiring status reports , scheduling interdepartmental collaboration time and any number of other ideas. Successful team collaboration is the culmination of thoughtful strategies and adapting to challenges.

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A Different Agile Methods List for Strategic PM’s

The Strategic Project Manager

From a strategic project management perspective, this post examines some key agile methods and there impact of strategy and project management. Implications for Strategy. Here strategy and project management are melting together.

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

Leading Agile

First, it is necessary to believe that a year is not defined by a list of projects but rather by an Investment Strategy : an organization of stable, cross-functional teams with aligned value, funded for reasonable intervals against strategic objectives.

2022 127
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The Transformation Journey: Lessons Learned

Planview

Executive teams have seen how Agile practices can help organizations gain speed, pivot quickly and effectively when needed, and deliver high-quality outcomes on strategy. Patrick has dubbed this phenomenon “strategy atrophy.”

2021 148
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Connecting Business with IT to Achieve Agility in the Financial Sector

Planview

Santander’s vision was to create an ecosystem that enables enterprise agility by connecting business with IT and strategy into delivery – with a single line of sight into key initiatives at every stage of the journey. Joaquim’s response: Work is linked to strategies (initiatives).

2020 99
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Is SAFe® (Scaled Agile Framework®) not Agile?

Agilemania

SAFe also adds additional interaction events to ensure collaboration happens across the teams and not just within the agile teams aligned to a common goal and work with a synchronized cadence. There has been some amount of criticism about SAFe.

2021 98
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Dealing With “Remote Sprawl”: How to Manage Teams, People, and Projects Across Time Zones

Planio

Timing and team cadence: Decouple team cadences whenever possible. Timing and team cadence: Decouple team cadences whenever possible. Agile teams rely on a clear sprint cadence to keep projects moving, remove bottlenecks, and ship great software.

2021 88
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Creating a Risk-Adjusted Backlog

Leading Answers

These days, when I look at the overall effectiveness of our risk management strategies at the end of a project, it is not usual to see 1.5 – 2 times the value in achieved opportunities compared to avoided threats. Which risk avoidance or elimination strategies are working and which are not?

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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It is made up of people who have an interest in the project: representatives from each of the key stakeholder communities, who meet on a regular basis to provide direction, authority to proceed and to decide on the strategy for the project.

2022 308
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The Roles and Responsibilities of a SAFe Agilist You Never Knew

Agilemania

SAFe is a framework that not only aligns team and the program level but also stays in line with the organizational strategy. Apply cadence, synchronize with cross-domain planning. Large organizations face challenges to respond to change with speed and relative ease.

2021 98
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12 Incredible Reasons You Should Get a SAFe® Agile Certification

Agilemania

They are prepared to align strategy and execution for the entire organization. Apply cadence and synchronize with cross-domain planning. Organizations small and large are always burdened with measures to change with turbulent times.

2021 98
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Enable Lasting Technical Change by Building Empathy & Trust

Leading Agile

For this email, it is assumed that the organization’s technical strategy has been defined and a governance model has been implemented. If neither is true, this email will still be valuable, it will just illustrate that strategy and governance are missing.

2021 117
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Product Goal

Scrum.org

Think of Product Goals as a stepping stone in the river of complexity One of the more challenging aspects of Product Management is to create a tangible relationship between the work we do today and the business strategy.

2020 232
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Don’t Say NoGet Them to Understand Your Team Delivery Capacity

Leading Agile

Let’s say that on average stakeholders request a couple of large items, a couple of medium-sized ones, and five small ones in any given cadence, iteration, release, or whatever unit of time your organization uses for such matters. Let’s say you’re using a two-week cadence, as that’s pretty typical and is what most agile coaches recommend as a starting point. In a typical cadence, stakeholders ask you to complete 12.5

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The Product Goal explained

Scrum.org

Organizations have been using goals successfully for many years to deliver their strategies. Establish the cadence. Measure on this cadence. Establish the cadence. Product Goals were added to the 2020 version of the Scrum Guide.

2022 234
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The Complete Guide to Scaling Agile and SAFe for Business Agility

Agilemania

The cadence of development of multiple teams. In addition, it aligns strategy and execution through Lean Portfolio Management. Portfolio SAFe: aligns execution with strategy by organizing development around value streams. . What is Scaling in Agile?

2022 98
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11 Proven Stakeholder Communication Tactics

Scrum.org

The good news is, that no matter whether both are perceived as a black hole by others, a well-orchestrated communication strategy has a good chance to win over the rest of the organization. TL; DR: 11 Proven Stakeholder Communication Tactics.

2020 212
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Agile Still Works

Scrum.org

Standard Waterfall strategies are not built for the high-speed world we live in today. How can we find the right cadence for collaboration and when should we collaborate? It is a time of unprecedented challenge. Firms are experiencing extraordinary disruption. Productivity is impacted.

2020 193
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58 Product Owner Theses

Scrum.org

This category of the Product Owner theses is branching out into the areas of product discovery and product management: The Product Owner has a holistic understanding of problems and opportunities in a market, the product itself, the organization and its strategy, and its various stakeholders.

2020 232
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Kanban to manage Complex/ Quick Moving Situations

Digite

At the same time, we ensure we follow many of the recommended Kanban cadences, including the Daily Standup Meeting, the Weekly Replenishment Meeting (where fine-tuning of the story/ defect prioritization takes place) as well as Release Retrospective and a Quarterly Strategy Review Meeting. The Kanban boards and cadences ensure that everyone is aware and aligned; and if there are conflicts, they are resolved during one of these meetings (other than the Daily Standup).

2018 154
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Live from Product404, in Atlanta: Agile RoadMapping

Leading Agile

Whether your team is a startup looking to define your product strategy, or an enterprise looking to remain competitive while coordinating across hundreds of teams, this event will deliver valuable insights and techniques on how Product leaders can remain agile while developing and sharing their roadmap. Erik leads product strategy at Gather, and is at the forefront of bridging technology and hospitality to help venues and guests gather and connect.

2018 66
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10 Reasons Why Agile Transformations Fail – And How To Fix Them

Agilemania

While this does look like a great strategy to experiment with Agile at the onset, this piecemeal approach leads to sub-component optimization at best.

2022 98