ProjectManager.com

JULY 15, 2021

For example, the tier below a marketing leader might be made of a content writer, an editor, an email manager, etc. 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.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 22, 2021

In this article, I’ll explain project communication management, why it matters, give an overview of the communications process, and some examples of where you might apply it on your own projects. There are numerous examples where project communication supports other project management processes.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 11, 2022

There’s no fixed cadence for strategy conversations. Present the overall roadmap, for example, a timeline for the 5 year plan. For example, perhaps you have a couple of different portfolios that support the strategy. For example, there are always conversations about budget. For example: “Ultimately, it’s Fiona’s decision.

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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. Can you show me an example of when you’ve done Y so I can compare it to what I’m doing? Can you give me some examples of productivity here? Can I tell you what’s happened since we last spoke?

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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

JANUARY 22, 2020

Complex work, of which software and product development are good examples, does not have the high degree of predictability to apply the old approaches that build on linearity, causality and predictive management. Organizations discover that they have been seeking for (or were pointed to) universal truths where there are none.

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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. For example, they might not have sufficient budget left to purchase a new tool. But what about changes to the team’s way of working (WoW)?

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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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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. Real-World Example of Right Sizing: Take a software development project. Ideal size comes into play with work items being too BIG and too SMALL.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 6, 2022

For example, on one project, I had the CFO steering group, and attendees were all SLT (senior leadership team members). It’s fine to have a different cadence at different points in the project lifecycle. Example project board report template. Who attends the steering group? When to hold the meetings.

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Project Bliss

JUNE 19, 2017

For example, Todd shares that he plans to finish making changes to the approval process flow today. By meeting at the same time, your team gets into a regular cadence. Identify the cadence or milestones that trigger a group self-assessment. Stating what you’ll be working on today helps you get focused. No Multitasking.

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Scrum.org

MAY 16, 2024

For example: Billy, the Product Owner of the Billing Engine Team can never deliver the whole customer journey to improve customer retention. 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.

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Planio

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

7 unique sprint retrospective templates and examples to supercharge your meetings. In this guide, we cover the basics of what is a sprint retrospective, when it happens, and how to run one and then cover some of the best examples and ideas for running a successful one. Start, Stop, Continue. Glad, sad, mad. The sailboat method.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Include stakeholders in principle work, for example, by organizing joint user story mapping sessions. Convince your stakeholders of their importance in making Scrum work for you, for example, by attending Sprint Review sessions. To help with inspection, Scrum provides cadence in the form of its five events.”.

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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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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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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The teams at his company had well established cadences for their Scrum events; well-oiled Daily Scrums that are done within 15 minutes and result in transparency of what the team will do for the next 24-hours. In another example, the Scrum guide states that a potentially releasable product Increment is created during the Sprint.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 27, 2020

There will be less time to support teammates or to do pair programming, for example. For example, the team might also consider who will be pairing with whom on what task. There might be good reasons for that, for example, a task’s value has not changed. Irregular Sprint lengths: The Scrum Team has variable Sprint cadences.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 14, 2023

Delivering Other organizations require the minimal defects and high productivity that allows them to ship on cadence and receive the market boost that comes from consistently Delivering when the market demands. A good example here would be SAFe. So be aware.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Suitable frameworks and practices for this kind of product discovery process are, for example, Lean Startup, Lean UX, Design Thinking, Design Sprints, or the Business Model Canvas. Roadmap planning is—like Product Backlog refinement—a continuous effort, just at an extended cadence. See also: “ Product Roadmap First Principles.”).

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Scrum.org

APRIL 11, 2019

I was successful with optimising for feature size that could be delivered in a two-sprint cadence. This approach is ideal to get a cadence from the influx of new features to done, closing the empirical process control loop from design to delivery. Also create more suitable alternatives for “bad” meetings rather than killing them.

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Scrum.org

MAY 4, 2023

For example, for a SaaS (Software as a service) product, one of the key stakeholders is James Bond- Head Of IT Security. For example, James Bond, Head of IT security will have a High Influence. For example, James Bond, Head of IT security will have a High Influence. A regular cadence of 1:1 meetings will be needed.

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Scrum.org

MAY 27, 2021

In the Sprint Planning event, for example, leaders can use a decentralised, servant leadership approach to communicate their intent to their teams. Working on a fortnightly cadence, teams can go through a planning conversation whereby they focus on the most important things to have completed in the forthcoming two-week sprint.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 7, 2023

For example, Scrum includes five events: the Sprint, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and the Sprint Retrospective. PI Planning serves as the cornerstone of the Agile Release Train within SAFe, establishing a synchronized cadence for multiple teams to work together towards a common goal. It is deliberately incomplete.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 7, 2023

The cadence of the Sprint is the heartbeat of Scrum, and it runs smoothly and consistently for high-performing teams. For example, suppose the Scrum Team is working on value for the BlackBerry device in the midst of the initial iPhone release. But what happens if there is a customer emergency or unexpected, urgent request mid-Sprint?

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MPUG

DECEMBER 28, 2020

For example, the home of Product Goal is the Product Backlog. Introduction of Cadence. For the first time, we are introduced of a concept called “Cadence.” In Scrum, the cadence is provided in the form of five events: Sprint – the container event. For Increment, the commitment is the Definition of Done (DoD).

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 12, 2023

Let's look at an electronic waste recycling company, for example. For example, you could meet that goal by funneling people into a free trial only to see most of them cancel at the end because they were not a good fit for our product. 6: Establish a cadence to inspect and adapt different goals .

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Project Risk Coach

MAY 15, 2017

Notice the cadence, pauses, and the repetitions in the speech. For example, watch Toastmaster Champion Ian Humphrey: It’s Not About the Knockdown. 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.”.

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Scrum.org

MAY 14, 2020

How can we find the right cadence for collaboration and when should we collaborate? As an example. 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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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. What is a good example? Lets take an example from Melissa Perri : . There are many ways to capture product goals.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

I focus on the example of application architects for this post, but realize the attitudes and patterns are very similar in regards to team integration for other skill sets and specialties I mentioned.

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Kiron Bondale

AUGUST 6, 2017

For example, technology deliverables might be completed in an agile manner whereas change management deliverables such as training collateral get produced in a traditional manner. In others, deliverables themselves are produced in a hybrid manner. This can be a challenge when an agile work stream has dependencies on a waterfall work stream.

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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. For example, you know Bob Marley’s song: “No woman no cry”. Let’s look at a Scrum example. Relationships can be: physical and tangible (example: a power cord), . Image by D.

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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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LiquidPlanner

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

There’s a lot to keep track of in a busy project portfolio and sometimes it’s tempting to simply work on the things that are most visible to you right now: for example the problems at the top of your inbox. Surface actionable insights.

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Project Bliss

AUGUST 19, 2018

Speed or cadence. Cadence is how fast or slow you talk. This video of Margaret Thatcher shows a good example of the difference paraverbal communication makes in delivering a message. For example, video record yourself giving your presentation when practicing beforehand. Imagine someone saying “Everybody stay calm.”

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Scrum.org

MAY 20, 2020

For example, your Sprint may be 2-weeks long and you have 5 Development Team members. 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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