Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 6, 2022

It’s fine to have a different cadence at different points in the project lifecycle. Symptoms: The project manager brings recommendations to the table but the project board fails to make decisions; decisions take a long time; decisions involve consulting other people not present during steering group meetings. 1: No senior ownership.

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Scrum.org

MAY 14, 2020

How can we find the right cadence for collaboration and when should we collaborate? In our consulting work we frequently train, mentor and coach our clients to use Scrum as a management framework. How do we consistently optimise and improve how we work? Agile isn’t just for software. .

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 30, 2023

Shall we outsource the effort to one of the big consultancies — McBoston? Leverage the expertise of the consulting firm but also empower employees to take ownership of the change by providing them with the necessary training and resources. Or shall we embark on an agile transformation with ChatGPT providing some guidance?

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Armed with the data, you can set realistic deadlines, allocate resources efficiently, and prevent delays that might disrupt your delivery cadence. Take advantage of Agile-ity’s expertise to elevate your organization’s performance through Scrum and Kanban training and business transformation consulting. FlowMetrics.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

As someone teaching SAFe Program Consultants, I try to discuss it in my classes. 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). Well, let's unpack this.

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Project Bliss

JANUARY 8, 2018

Verify information – consult with those closest to the work to make sure the information is up-to-date and accurate. Be consistent – use a consistent format and cadence for your status reporting. The status report is only one element of communication. Your Communication Plan will lay out other components of project communication.

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Scrum.org

MAY 3, 2024

On découpe le problème et on bat la cadence pour le résoudre. Dans une méthode en cascade, peu d’improvisation, une fois le flux d’activités identifié et les rôles attribués, chacun sait ce qu’il a à faire pour faire avancer le train.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Delivering teams deliver on the market cadence. As a consulting partner, mentor, and speaker, she’s worked with forward-looking leaders throughout her career. . The Agile Fluency® Model is based on four zones reflecting a team’s progress in becoming agile. Quote: Focusing teams produce business value. Diana Larsen.

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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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Scrum.org

MAY 4, 2023

When their Influence is High and Interest is low, you would like to consult them less frequently. A regular cadence of 1:1 meetings will be needed. However, when they have High Influence and High Interest; you would like to manage with them more closely. You will also like to invite them to the Sprint Reviews to collect feedback.

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Influencer Cadence Software Review SCRUM 203

Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

In any way that works for you,” would be the consultant answer. Though goals could be shorter or longer, it makes sense to maintain a cadence that allows for alignment with changes in the business, whilst maintain a focussed mission for a longer period of time. They communciate intent and not solution. What is a good example?

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Digite

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Dave is a Principal Consultant at Depth Consulting Ltd, and Program Director of the KCP Program at the Lean Kanban University. 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. Many (most?)

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Scrum.org

MARCH 20, 2019

Here you might want to put on your consultant hat and give the “it depends” answer. Remember that Sprints are the containers for all other Sprint events and designed to provide cadence. The answer is simple, a Sprint is a time-box of one month or less. A reasonable follow-up question would be, “what is the optimal Sprint duration?”

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

As someone teaching SAFe Program Consultants, I try to discuss it in my classes. 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). Well, let's unpack this.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Create a Cadence of Accountability. Request a free consultation with my team or enrol in one of our upcoming professional Scrum classes. BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal) : A long-term, visionary goal that is more strategic and inspiring than a standard goal. Act on Lead Measures. Keep a Compelling Scoreboard. A mbitious in scope.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 29, 2023

You have ceremonies and cadences, ways you track progress, techniques for safely writing, testing, and deploying software; and various roles and responsibilities that make up a typical Agile team. Every Agile methodology ever invented, was used by some consultant, in some organization, in some engagement and was successful.

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Scoro

OCTOBER 14, 2024

For agencies and consultancies, this usually means checking things like how well your team is managing their tasks, how long tasks are taking, and whether the project costs are sticking to the plan. Review projects regularly Set up a regular cadence for project monitoring. And may also sync with other tools in your tech stack.

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The IIL Blog

MARCH 20, 2024

Instead, there’s an expectation for staff to embody agility and an adaptive way of working, embracing a regular cadence of incremental improvement and actively working towards enhancing processes, strategies, and skills over time. That is why agile change and project management approaches are so popular. Dr. Elissa Farrow, Ph.D.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 24, 2019

Most agile consultants and coaches are unfamiliar with back-end technologies, and they tend to treat them as a mysterious black box. This may be perfectly fine in some cases, but in many cases, the result is not so fine: Any change that is meaningful and impactful to the business can be delivered only on the pre-agile cadence.

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Agilemania

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Shorten feedback loops by leveraging the cadences. By offering quality training, consulting, and coaching to professionals globe-wide, they catalyze massive growth in organizations. An organization can measure progress toward its target outcomes by collecting feedback from internal teams, external focus groups, customers, or end users.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 27, 2021

It’s easy to say, “Let’s go to lunch or grab dinner,” when you are embedded with a client and working away from home with your fellow consultants on a team. But with the pandemic, our consultants were suddenly all working from home. . Using Tried and True Remote Tools .

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Henny Portman

MARCH 16, 2020

But before Ronald actually gets to work on this advice, he started to work with the Full Control Consulting Group. He sends the Consulting Group away and started with the lessons learned from the Formula I team. Rhythmic learning – learn through a cadence of recurring interaction moments.

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Gunther Verheyen

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

I facilitate people’s learning and unlearning to increase their awareness of Scrum in several ways: Classes Consulting Writing Speaking. When I am consulting (2) that consumes most of my mental energy ( caring for organizations more than they care about themselves, it seems ), which rules out extensive writing (3). I make choices.

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Agilemania

JANUARY 19, 2022

Go for the SPC exam only if you truly wish to become a SAFe Program Consultant. If you aspire to become an Agile Coach and then need to lead the SAFe implementation in your organization, becoming a SAFe Program Consultant is the right choice. Cadence synchronize with crossdomain planning. SAFe Program Consultant .

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Velociteach

MAY 10, 2023

SAFe employs cadence, synchronization, and clear lines of content authority to help organizations scale their agile practices to hundreds or thousands of people. Cadence means that all teams on an Agile Release Train (program) follow the same delivery cycle.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 23, 2022

We like to consider ourselves kind of a full stack consultancy in the sense that you know, obviously, you have to deal with the work surface levels and what the teams are doing but you know, how do you orchestrate teams across dependency boundaries? What do you do with planning cadences? How do you go up into Portfolio Management?

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Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Our consultants preach this to our clients all the time. In my experience working with small growing consultancies, I have seen these changes start to appear at 50, 100, and then 200 employees. Before I dive in, I’d like to share LeadingAgile’s hypothesis on culture with you. 1500 words start…now. . Our Cultural Hypothesis.

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Velociteach

MARCH 6, 2024

People who are consulted and provide input. Is there consistency with the past? Is there consistency across the program, portfolio, or organization? If a new precedent is being established, how is that communicated? What is the timing of the process? How often does the decision-making body and appellate body meet?

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Agilemania

MARCH 23, 2021

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. This is a key tenet of the SAFe® framework and is referred to as ‘Develop in Cadence’ in the big picture.

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Leading Agile

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Scott Sehlhorst: SVP, Executive Consultant at LeadingAgile. Scott has 25+ years in product management & strategy consulting, software development, and mechanical engineering to help companies make better decisions about how to invest in their products.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

An increased focus on long term vision, goals and objectives starts to grow (while, of course, delivering in a steady and frequent cadence). This increased self-organization allows the Product Owner to spend more time on other stuff, instead on having to explain all the details to the teams. Want to learn more?

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Velociteach

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This article highlights some common issues I have encountered in my consulting and coaching practice. Teams conform to a 2-week delivery cadence, creating a standard operating rhythm and predictability. The problem is not with the values, principles, and practices. Instead, it is with organizations and their approach to agility.

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Agilemania

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Apply cadence, synchronize with cross-domain planning. Agile Coach, Consultant, Change Agent. Build Incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles. Base milestones on the objective evaluation of working systems. Visualize and limit WIP, reduce batch sizes, and manage queue heights. Decentralize decision-making.

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Velociteach

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Gerald is an IT project management consultant; but he also has two degrees in music and is an accomplished bass guitarist. Combining Jazz and Project Management WENDY GROUNDS: Can you tell us, just as an introduction, how you’ve combined your dual careers as a professional jazz musician and as a project management consultant?

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Underperforming Technical Team Cadence Certification Consulting 99

Agilemania

MAY 17, 2021

While you continue to work on becoming more effective, the next step could be getting certifies as a SAFe® 5 Program Consultant (SPC). All frameworks for scaling agile share five main components: inspiration from the 12 Agile Manifesto principles, cadence, synchronization, Scrum, and quality development practices. Author's Bio.

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Henny Portman

JULY 26, 2020

Furthermore, neither agile or scrum contemplates how the agile team should be connected to a larger organization and to external partners who will likely have differing development processes and cadences. The book is divided into four sections. The final section focusses on project retrospectives.

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MPUG

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

As per PMI, there are three types of PMOs: A supportive PMO largely plays a consultative role such as providing templates, imparting training and coaching, and storing lessons learned across projects. Consulting: Adopting various project management frameworks or methods. Types of PMOs. Strategic Focus and Alignment.

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