Scrum.org

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Figuring out the right Cadence . It’s all about finding the “goldilocks” cadence that provides frequent enough transparency and the opportunity to inspect and adapt at the right level. There can be a different cadence for everyone involved in achieving an OKR as compared to the cadence involving all stakeholders interested in that OKR.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 15, 2021

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. Otherwise, the team will begin to feel like multiple, independent departments working toward different goals.

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Kiron Bondale

MARCH 15, 2020

At the start of the project, if the product owner and team members know that key product content decisions will have to be made by senior management, then they might plan accordingly by having regularly scheduled reviews with senior leaders to build a cadence for decision making.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Here are the top communication skills for project managers: Active listening: really hearing what people are saying in the room Consistency: follow through when you say you will and create a cadence for the team Clarity: use short sentences and jargon -free language in your communications Accessibility: make sure comms are delivered in a format that (..)

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 22, 2021

Here are the top communication skills for project managers: Active listening: really hearing what people are saying in the room Consistency: follow through when you say you will and create a cadence for the team Clarity: use short sentences and jargon-free language in your communications Accessibility: make sure comms are delivered in a format that (..)

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Kiron Bondale

APRIL 18, 2021

Whether your team sets a regular cadence for external product reviews or they are conducted on a just-in-time basis, it is important to get actionable feedback. But conducting a review is not just a matter of bringing people together.

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Kiron Bondale

DECEMBER 2, 2018

The Scrum Guide calls sprints the heart of Scrum as these time boxes set the cadence for all other events. Each agile framework provides its own ceremonies but given that Scrum is still the most commonly referenced one, let’s focus on that framework’s events.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Running the survey on a regular cadence helps the organization understand whether the changes they are introducing are having an impact (positive or negative) on their employees overall level of engagement. .

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 10, 2022

Either way, report EAC monthly or to your normal project management reporting cadence, so you can spot trends and identify issues before they become too significant. I get that SPI and CPI are difficult to work out manually, but the other two EAC formulas don’t use performance indices, so you should be good to work those out by hand.

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Kiron Bondale

MAY 26, 2019

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. Teams which don’t use feedback loops with their products and their processes should not consider themselves to be very agile.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

At regular meetings You’ll find a regular cadence and probably settle into a regular agenda or routine with the check in sessions. The first meeting is likely to be all about getting to know each other, creating rapport and setting the intention going forward. Here are some sample questions you can use to keep the conversation moving.

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Project Bliss

JUNE 19, 2017

By meeting at the same time, your team gets into a regular cadence. Identify the cadence or milestones that trigger a group self-assessment. Take time zones into account and find a time that works for everyone as best as possible. Have the Scrum Meeting at the Same Time Each Day. It becomes standard practice for your team. Conclusion.

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Kiron Bondale

JULY 25, 2021

Whether a team uses a scheduled cadence for reviewing their WoW such as the use of retrospectives in Scrum, or they use a just-in-time approach they will come up with improvement ideas. But what about changes to the team’s way of working (WoW)? Some of those ideas will be all or nothing.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 22, 2020

Sprint is a stable container event that provides overall rhythm and cadence to the opportunities for inspections and adaptations foreseen within a Sprint; Sprint Review, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective. It is why Sprints, as container events, have a fixed time-box. Originally published at [link].

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 22, 2024

Reduces Predictability When Scrum teams work together, they develop a cadence of value delivery. Scrum teams thrive on developing a predictable cadence of value delivery. The iterative feedback loop is disrupted, hindering the essence of Agile development. This reduces transparency and trust.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 10, 2021

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. What is a Definition of Done (DoD). Growing your Definition of Done (DoD).

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Musings on Project Management

APRIL 2, 2016

The recommendation of.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 11, 2022

There’s no fixed cadence for strategy conversations. What goes into your meeting (and therefore, your agenda) will very much depend on where you are in the strategy planning cycle. When do strategic meetings happen? Some businesses use quarterly meetings. Some might do a lot of planning during the existing structure of board meetings.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Calling work in different names but still being involved in the details as if it were still early days in the lab/garage/WeWork shared space – instead of providing clarity about the mission and staying at the right altitude—choosing strategically what check-in cadence and involvement is appropriate where.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

They are accountable for delivering done working products every cadence and satisfy customer needs. People's responsibility doesn’t end only on building things. Professionals are accountable for the work they do and accountable for success.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

Embedding OKRs into Scrum's Inspect/Adapt Cadence. It reinforces that the focus for executives is to provide teams with a clear, realistic, audatious goal that has a measurable, tangible impact that will drive improved performance for both stakeholders as well as the teams. . Evolving the Sprint Review to inspect OKR metrics.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Right-sizing in Agile refers to the practice of customizing the size of work items in your backlog to match their inherent complexity and effort required to the time interval of your cadence. Ideal size comes into play with work items being too BIG and too SMALL.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 3, 2023

And yet, the Sprint serves a pivotal role in Scrum by setting the cadence for feedback, inspection and adaptation in Scrum. However, it's crucial to recognize that the Sprint sets the cadence for all of the other events. In fact, many people don’t even realize that it is an event in Scrum. There’s no meeting for “The Sprint”, you see.

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Scrum.org

MAY 16, 2024

They study and do the work in a shared cadence (Sprint). A team of teams works in a single cadence (sprint), meaning they refine, plan, and deliver the work synchronously. Combining a single business-level backlog with teams of teams creates the opportunity for teams to abandon the isolation of their team-level Sprints.

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Scrum.org

JULY 15, 2024

Predictable Progress: The regular cadence of Sprints provides a predictable schedule for delivering increments of work, enhancing transparency and trust with stakeholders. Conclusion The Sprint timebox in Scrum is a powerful tool that creates a sense of urgency, driving teams to deliver consistent, high-quality results.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Such elements might include handoffs (specialization or authorization), queues (describing the same work at different levels), groups of teams not working in the same cadence, etc. Proposed remedial actions: Try to match the size of the work realistically to the cadence (do the stories fit in the iteration, and the features in the Pis?).

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 2, 2018

A lot of people see the Scrum Sprint as mainly a release cadence. The Scrum Sprint is first and foremost a Planning, Transparency, Inspection and Adaptation cadence. Can it also be a release cadence? Great Scrum Teams plan on a cadence. The role of the Sprint. Not the only one, but a major one. But it doesn't have to be.

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LiquidPlanner

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

You create a delivery cadence Timeboxing in agile is a way of wrapping up work into a clearly defined iteration (or sprint). This creates a cadence for continuous delivery: there are new features released at the end of every iteration. Everyone knows what deadline they are working towards and what’s expected in that time.

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Scrum.org

MAY 25, 2024

If your team is struggling with basic Scrum elements like sprint cadence, empiricism, and delivering Done increment, adding Kanban’s work-in-progress (WIP) limits, cycle times, and throughput metrics can overwhelm your team and dilute the focus.

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MPUG

DECEMBER 28, 2020

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. Lean Thinking.

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Kiron Bondale

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

The specific cadence varies based on the complexity and duration of a transformation. Executives and mid-level managers are constantly juggling competing priorities and as long as it appears that a change initiative is not on fire, their attention spans are likely to be shorter than that of a goldfish.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 2, 2018

A lot of people see the Scrum Sprint as mainly a release cadence. The Scrum Sprint is first and foremost a Planning, Transparency, Inspection and Adaptation cadence. Can it also be a release cadence? Great Scrum Teams plan on a cadence. The role of the Sprint. Not the only one, but a major one. But it doesn't have to be.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

SAFe has a cadence at the Team and Program levels. The team-level cadence is called Iterations but other than that different name is almost identical to the Scrum Sprint. (See a recent blog post I wrote about this). SAFe's Sprints are 3 months long and are planned in detail - How is that Agile? Well, let's unpack this.

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LiquidPlanner

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

We’re living in what’s been called the Project Economy and there’s a certain cadence that comes with that: a cadence that will sweep you off your feet if you can’t keep up. With intelligent portfolio management, your team will stop wasting time on plans that won’t survive the week.

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Agilemania

DECEMBER 5, 2022

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. Release on Demand.

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Digite

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

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. Scrum prescribes a cadence and that all activities happen within that timebox. If you didn’t guess, this cadence is called the sprint duration.

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Project Risk Coach

MAY 15, 2017

Notice the cadence, pauses, and the repetitions in the speech. Take note of his quotes such as, “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”. And who hasn’t heard Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech? Lastly, YouTube provides a library of great speakers and speeches.

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