Leading Agile

APRIL 20, 2021

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. It does not work upstream.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 31, 2021

Despite the obtuseness of the term, the concept is rather straightforward: encapsulating value means intentionally establishing a clear governance process and organizational structure that facilitates an alignment of product development execution to defined strategic objectives.

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Leading Agile

JULY 13, 2021

It’s the process and governance mechanisms we use to manage the flow of work through the system. 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. How do we define, track, and report on our OKRs and KPIs?

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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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Agilemania

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Portfolio management teams apply these principles and approaches to strategy and investment funding, Agile portfolio operations, and governance. Shorten feedback loops by leveraging the cadences. Why Lean Portfolio Management?

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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. In the third section we get an overview of some routine meetings like the daily scrum, demos, governance meetings and teleconferences.

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Leading Agile

JULY 18, 2023

Additionally, we need to consider how we organize teams in the presence of dependencies, how we orchestrate and govern those dependencies, and what we measure and control around the team. We also need to define the acceptance criteria of Agile. How are we orchestrating and governing those dependencies? How are we forming teams?

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Agilemania

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Be it monitoring and control, collaboration, stakeholders onboarding, change management, and governance methods, the problems only keep increasing. They are open to innovation and help the team in defining goals and perceptions to communicate strategic vision clearly. Apply cadence, synchronize with cross-domain planning.

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Digite

JUNE 13, 2018

Instead of using timeboxes to govern their work, as a Scrum team does, a Kanban team uses WIP limits. WIP limits may be Kanban’s core defining feature, but it’s not all you need. Anderson defines five core properties that make for a successful implementation: Visualize Workflow. The Cool Power of WIP Limits.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 4, 2023

The Scaled Agile Framework wasn’t exactly what the authors of the Agile Manifesto imagined 20 years ago when they set out to define a better way of building software. But it shouldn’t be vilified for having limitations because it does some things really well—even if those things aren’t Agile as defined in the Manifesto.

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The IIL Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Context and environmental factors should govern process requirements, specificity, and formality. Elements in the assumptions log can include: Describe the assumption using the most specific and definable information available. The plan should provide well-defined steps to respond to the risk should it occur.

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MPUG

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The Project Management Institute (PMI) provides a broad definition of PMO as: A project management office (PMO) is an organizational structure that standardizes the project-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources, methodologies, tools, and techniques. . Multi-project Management. Strategic Focus and Alignment.

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Velociteach

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Context and environmental factors should govern process requirements, specificity, and formality. The plan should provide well-defined steps to respond to the risk should it occur. The exposure score is often a numeric score based on the likelihood and impact of the risk. The exposure score can be used to prioritize the risk.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 7, 2016

Cadence Release - when a fixed period ends, go with what is ready to go. Cadence Release paradigm, is a flow-based approach. A predictive rhythm defines when the release will be released. The variability of the development work is minimized through the planned cadence. Release Plans come in two flavors.

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Velociteach

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Plan Elements The Plan is like a book with three main sections: Execution Parameters establish how the project will be managed along with the approach, required lifecycle phases, and governance procedures. Governance All projects require oversight and governance. Defining the parameters for assessing risk (e.g.,

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Leading Agile

MARCH 23, 2022

What do you do with planning cadences? A lot of what those people have built upon are really sound foundational principles, like encapsulated teams at the work surface level, Kanban or flow based kind of governance models on top, right, at a lean agile metrics that enable us to measure improvement, things like that.

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Planio

APRIL 24, 2023

According to the Association for Project Management : “Project management is the application of processes, methods, skills, knowledge, and experience to achieve specific objectives, according to defined acceptance criteria, within agreed parameters.” Find the right meeting cadence for you and your team.

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Planview

JULY 19, 2023

In the first two posts of this blog series, we shared how one large biotech company defined its pain points and business goals for its PPM transformation process and the five steps it took to beat the transformation odds. (If If you’re just jumping in, read part one and part two of the story first.)

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Bridge the Gap Consulting

APRIL 11, 2023

Finding the PMO’s “WHY” Though this is listed first, it may be defined in your assessment last. Is there any governance in place and if so, how effective is it? Do people feel strategy and supporting governance is effective? Also, look at communication cadence and means by which to share this information.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 19, 2020

The good news is that many aspects of Transformation are definable and repeatable, so they can be predictable. And so, from how we do governance and how we do project planning and how we do organizational structure, all those kinds of things, right, so there’s this big hop. Backlogs becomes governance.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

” A lot more is possible than was imagined when “Agile” was first defined. More narrowly-defined roles would have fewer concurrent assignments, but still too many to be effective. The shift to a product focus affects all of the three main “things” that we talk about: Structure, Governance, and Metrics.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Governance (#Governance). The overarching theme is focused on defining what Done looks like, assessing progress toward Done in units of measure meaningful to the decision makers. Managing Government Grant Projects at Arizona Public Service - APS management process for Department of Energy grant for algae CO2 capture project.

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Leading Agile

MAY 3, 2023

And so if you show up and like you say, “Hey, I want to adopt Agile,” but you know, you’re not familiar with the strategies or Agile governance strategies or such, right? The roles, the ceremonies, the artifacts, the cadences, all those different things that we model as implementation details.

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Herding Cats

JULY 16, 2017

The order of the needed Capabilties in defined in the business strategy. . Either a Cadence Release Plan or a Capabilities Release Plan. Product Roadmap and Release Plan describe the needed capabilities to be delivered by the project. These capabilities are connected to the business strategy. They implement that strategy.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

These elements may include: Clear communication channels and expectations: This defines how team members should communicate with each other, whether it’s through regular meetings, instant messaging platforms, or email. Norms are the unwritten rules that govern how team members interact with one another.

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 3, 2023

So we start with culture, maybe we go to practices and then all those teaming strategies and dependencies and governance and metrics and all that stuff that we struggle with all the time will just kind of work itself out. The Role of Governance Now, this is what I think about when I think about governance.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 5, 2017

This Plan needs to define: How the products and services will be “matured” as the project progresses? It serves no purpose to have a risk plan and the defined mitigations in the absence of a risk communication plan. Herding Cats: Capabilities Release or Cadence Release. So the supposed UNK UNK was actually lack of understanding.

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Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Audit: The process of analyzing a project to ensure that it is being governed as intended. Benefits Framework: This defines the expected benefits of the project, the specific operations it would affect, and how the project's performance would be; a) realized, and b) measured. A project sponsor can request an audit.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 5, 2016

This is the basis of the Agile Product Roadmap and Product Release Plan (either cadence or capability based). People have defined skills and capabilities. It includes the budgets assigned to scheduled control accounts and the applicable indirect budgets. The PMB is developed and evolves as the project develops and evolves.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 31, 2020

You get super clear backlogs, you find out what the real cadences you’ve finished work that you start. It’s breaking what an organization does to produce those outcomes down into measurable, definable outcomes. – Safe defines a reference architecture for a system of delivery. How do you like fix it?

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The IIL Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Importantly, it also defines governance, oversight, and management review processes. A regular cadence and defined process for measuring performance against the plan is required. A thoughtfully developed plan establishes expectations, enhances effectiveness, and prevents misunderstandings and confusion.

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Agilemania

MAY 17, 2021

SAFe provides a well-defined approach for scaling agile, which addresses the challenges mentioned above. All frameworks for scaling agile share five main components: inspiration from the 12 Agile Manifesto principles, cadence, synchronization, Scrum, and quality development practices. Increasing value delivery and quality.

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Agilemania

MAY 17, 2021

SAFe provides a well-defined approach for scaling agile, which addresses the challenges mentioned above. All frameworks for scaling agile share five main components: inspiration from the 12 Agile Manifesto principles, cadence, synchronization, Scrum, and quality development practices. Increasing value delivery and quality.

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Velociteach

MAY 10, 2023

The project management profession has had a similar quest—defining a methodology, set of practices, or principles that could successfully guide any project. More recently, the profession has grappled with two intertwined questions: Should principles or processes govern project management?

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MPUG

JUNE 1, 2022

Now up to this point, session number one of our series, we were discussing a system for value delivery, which meant for the most part, PMI wanted to paint five primary contextual concepts defining the system for value delivery. What’s deliverable, cadence, project phase? It makes sense.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

A product operating model defines how a company structures, funds, and runs its product organisation to effectively deliver business outcomes. A well-defined product operating model ensures that teams are empowered, aligned with business goals, and continuously learning to drive innovation and growth.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

And if we can really take this first principle of encapsulation over orchestration, if we can take that idea all the way from the top of the organization all the way down and create these strategies across with minimal, lightweight, flow based governance empowered teams at the bottom right, then we’ve got a shot for.

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