Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 11, 2022

If you think about the point of having a strategy discussion, it’s really to either define the strategy or to decide if you are on track with delivering the strategy. There’s no fixed cadence for strategy conversations. Define success. What you need to include in the meeting has to tie back to those points.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 22, 2020

Define and identify your product first. 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. Scrum only defines that Sprints should be no longer than 4 weeks.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 22, 2021

Communications management occurs in a well-defined and repeatable cycle. THE COMMUNICATIONS MANAGEMENT PROCESS. Here are the 4 steps of the communications process along with a bit of information to explain each one. At or before kickoff, the project manager proposes a communication plan and seeks input from team members and stakeholders.

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nTask

OCTOBER 5, 2021

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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Scrum.org

MAY 16, 2024

What the POs and their teams define as “product”, is one of many applications, services, steps in the value chain, components, features, etc. They study and do the work in a shared cadence (Sprint). If a company is too big, we define parts of the business domain that are independent from each other).

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 22, 2024

Agility Agility, defined as the ability to move quickly and adapt rapidly, is foundational to Scrum. 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. This reduces transparency and trust.

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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. Teams may struggle to balance Scrum's time-boxed nature with Kanban's continuous flow.

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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). So what do you do?

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Scrum.org

MARCH 14, 2023

Without defining value, no agile transformation is possible. Once the value is defined and the teams starting to learn and deliver, the change isn't done yet. role of a product owner) to manage the value at that defined level (e.g., It all starts with focusing on value. In fact, it is never done. with a product backlog).

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The main concern I have is not that SAFe's Scrum Master is different than how Scrum defines it. Beyond how SAFe is defined, there's also how people perceive it. SAFe has a cadence at the Team and Program levels. Maybe your organization is actually better off with an Agile Team Lead than a Scrum Master. Well, let's unpack this.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 11, 2019

It takes a couple of iterations for Business and IT to collaborate on defining properly sliced features and to optimise the sizing of a releasable feature. I was successful with optimising for feature size that could be delivered in a two-sprint cadence. This dynamic is very common for component teams.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 6, 2019

This goal-setting platform requires a company, to define goals and come up with activities that should help them to meet these goals. Defining an objective that a company, team, or individual needs to meet by the end of the quarter, or year is only one-third of the job of OKRs. This role is very similar to that of a Scrum Master.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 4, 2022

The Sprint is one of the five events defined in the Scrum Guide. The duration of the Sprint is timeboxed to a maximum of one month, establishing a cadence within which the Scrum team works together to deliver value. According to the 2020 Scrum Guide, the Sprint is the “heartbeat” of Scrum.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 7, 2020

It has a clear boundary, known stakeholders, well-defined users, or customers. Roadmap planning is—like Product Backlog refinement—a continuous effort, just at an extended cadence. The Product Owner defines the business objective the upcoming Sprint shall accomplish. Product definition: “A product is a vehicle to deliver value.

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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

JANUARY 27, 2020

Sprint Planning is a core event, defining how your customers’ lives will improve with the next Product Increment. Irregular Sprint lengths: The Scrum Team has variable Sprint cadences. For example, an assertive Product Owner dominates the Development Team by defining its scope of the forecast. Diagram source: Scrum.org.

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Scrum.org

MAY 14, 2020

How can we find the right cadence for collaboration and when should we collaborate? How should we collaborate to review the outcome of our work? How do we consistently optimise and improve how we work? How should we manage our interactions to consistently and deliberately learn and adapt? Agile isn’t just for software. .

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MPUG

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The Product Goal has been defined clearly. 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.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

If your team is able to create a usable increment in a shorter time-box than 1 month, consider shortening your Sprint cadence. Refinement can happen on an ongoing basis, as needed, in a meeting or may not be needed every Sprint depending on how Product Backlog items are defined and how the team is working.

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Scrum.org

MAY 20, 2020

It could be that the team has too much to do at once, or the PBIs are too big or vaguely defined. Scrum is a framework for addressing complex problems, and Scrum teams that can reach a cadence where their goals are regularly met are going to instill more trust, manage stakeholder expectations and manage that complexity sustainably.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

This exercise makes people share positive team experiences, helps them to define what their core power and drive is and what they need from a team to perform at their best. The goal was to synchronize the three teams so that they all got into the same cadence. This is a great way to get positive energy flowing.

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Scrum.org

MAY 9, 2021

Its essence can be described as the following: an organization defines a strategic goal – usually something ambitious, inspiring, but quite far in the future, often with several years. This framework implements the theory of empirical control to how an organization is managed.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 26, 2019

When you learn how to do SAFe and you learn all the stuff about SAFe, all the different roles and cadences and things like that, you are learning a System of Delivery. So, when you guys go to Scrum class and you learn how to do Scrum, you are learning a System of Delivery.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

This exercise makes people share positive team experiences, helps them to define what their core power and drive is and what they need from a team to perform at their best. The goal was to synchronize the three teams so that they all got into the same cadence. This is a great way to get positive energy flowing.

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Kiron Bondale

DECEMBER 18, 2016

But when planning a product release which cannot be delivered by a single pod within a reasonable amount of time, we need to structure the work across multiple pods of five to a dozen team members working in parallel but also orchestrating release cadence and work item priority based on the dependencies between work streams.

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Kiron Bondale

DECEMBER 17, 2017

The specific frequency of these re-forecasts is context-specific, but a minimum cadence should be established at the portfolio level to support normal portfolio monitoring and reporting practices. Releases, phase end gates and change requests should all include a benefits re-forecast and review.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The main concern I have is not that SAFe's Scrum Master is different than how Scrum defines it. Beyond how SAFe is defined, there's also how people perceive it. SAFe has a cadence at the Team and Program levels. Maybe your organization is actually better off with an Agile Team Lead than a Scrum Master. Well, let's unpack this.

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Kiron Bondale

AUGUST 6, 2017

Things to consider when faced with such a hybrid project are: Orchestrating delivery cadence from each work stream to ensure that consuming work streams are not incurring prolonged delays in receiving components from providing ones. This can be a challenge when an agile work stream has dependencies on a waterfall work stream.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

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. In the complex domain, it is hard to define truths. it could be as late as Sprint Planning, but I would not advice it. Inspect and adapt?

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 16, 2023

A well-defined Sprint goal sparks intrigue, questions, and enthusiasm among both stakeholders and developers. OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) are a goal-setting framework that helps organizations define and track objectives and their outcomes. Create a Cadence of Accountability. Act on Lead Measures. A mbitious in scope.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 25, 2022

The Sprint Planning is a core event that defines how your customers’ lives will improve with the following Product Increment. The whole Scrum Team then collaborates to define a Sprint Goal that communicates why the Sprint is valuable to stakeholders. Irregular Sprint lengths: The Scrum team has variable Sprint cadences.

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Kiron Bondale

JULY 21, 2019

It is also somewhat of a cop-out to plagiarize Justice Potter Stewart’s famous phrase “ I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of behaviors, practices or methods I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description [ “agile” ], and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 29, 2022

Each story needs a clearly defined state of “done” to allow for progress and prevent technical debt. Additionally, the stories are poorly defined and give insufficient directive. User stories should be defined with enough detail that the team can execute on the delivery without having to ask excessive clarifying questions.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 20, 2019

Remember that Sprints are the containers for all other Sprint events and designed to provide cadence. But it gives us an excellent point to start defining what too short of a Sprint will look like. While this alignment sounds nice, we need to be acutely aware of the pitfalls of longer (long-ish?)

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Scrum.org

APRIL 21, 2020

Another example is how the Scrum guide separates activities from events: Events have a clear time-box, cadence, subject and participants. We can look at relationships as being distinctions, which means we define relationships as ideas or things rather than just noting connections between items. Image by R. Flemm and D.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

A year is defined by a set of projects. 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. This sounds like a terrible fate.

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Digite

MAY 26, 2017

Program Increments (PIs) provide a development timebox (default 10 weeks) that uses cadence and synchronization to facilitate planning, limiting WIP, provide for aggregation of value and assure consistent retrospectives. necessary to continuously define, build and test capabilities in every iteration. How is PI related to ART?

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