Scrum.org

JUNE 8, 2023

The management discussion on team mandate has shifted toward determining the degree to which teams are self-organizing, self-directing, or self-governing. Instead, by sharing the same Sprint cadence and Goal, they will see opportunities for collaboration. We no longer question whether teams should be more autonomous or not.

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2012 Cadence Retail 2016 170

Leading Agile

APRIL 7, 2023

That having weekly planning cadences; daily standups, reviews, and retrospectives would give people a reason to get in the same room and collaborate. One of my favorite user group questions to ask is this. The governance model? Governance and control. Dependencies and governance. The technology architecture?

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Agile Governance Government Underperforming Technical Team 133

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. Encapsulation of Dependencies.

Underperforming Technical Team 118

Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Technical Review Governance 118

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. It’s important to apply the feedback to reinvest in ideas that produce good outcomes and downshift those that do not.

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Lean Cadence Certification SCRUM 98

Agilemania

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

To synchronize and coordinate the planning and feedback loops, the leadership team makes choices at a fixed cadence that is followed by both the operations (the tasks they carry out) and the governance (the reviews they conduct). LPM operations. That is the portfolio leadership team.

Lean 98

Lean Cadence Development Team Review Leadership 98

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. How are we orchestrating and governing those dependencies? Second, how are we building backlogs? How are we forming teams?

Agile 118

Agile Software Review Certification Technical Review 118

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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Software Review Process Lean Cadence 93

Agilemania

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Be it monitoring and control, collaboration, stakeholders onboarding, change management, and governance methods, the problems only keep increasing. Apply cadence, synchronize with cross-domain planning. Group teams and regroup teams around the flow value. Build Incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles.

Lean 98

Lean 2011 Cadence Innovation 98

Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

But if you have only one QA person straddling the fence between two groups, you also have a dependency, and that’s going to limit the ability of both teams to achieve Agility. In the middle, you’re going to deliver features on some kind of cadence. SAFe typically is set up with a 4-tiered governance model.

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Agile Technical Review SCRUM Cadence 127

Leading Agile

MAY 12, 2020

Professions such as Medicine, Law, Beauty, Teaching, Transportation, Security, Accounting, Engineering, and Project Management all have one thing in common; certifications and internal governance. Let’s face it, IT has historically accepted the role of the “order taking – behind the scenes” group hidden from society.

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Transportation Cadence Engineering Agile 71

The IIL Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Context and environmental factors should govern process requirements, specificity, and formality. The frequency, method, and level of detail will depend on the stakeholder group. The project management plan should describe the process for communication and reporting issues and risks. Project Team. Management Reporting.

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Risk Management Risk Cadence 2016 88

Velociteach

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Context and environmental factors should govern process requirements, specificity, and formality. The frequency, method, and level of detail will depend on the stakeholder group. The project management plan should describe the process for communication and reporting issues and risks. Project Team. Management Reporting.

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Risk Management Risk Cadence 2023 77

Leading Agile

MARCH 23, 2022

What do you do with planning cadences? And so, it’s that for a couple years, that group reorganized and I kind of find myself back in a regular PMO and I’m like, that’s not cool, right? Process is part of it but like, you literally have to create a hypothesis organizationally for what you’re going to group people around.

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Agile Consulting Influencer Underperforming Technical Team 143

Leading Agile

JANUARY 21, 2021

What does it look like when we’re trying to figure out how to do agile governance? Not only at the team level, but at the program level at the portfolio level, at the strategy level, like at the macro level of governance and that was kind of the problem that we really set off to solve. But a lot of times, and you guys know this.

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Sustainability Agile SCRUM Technical Review 111

Leading Agile

AUGUST 19, 2020

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. Because those are the things that fundamentally get in the way how we govern, right, how we deal with cross cutting concerns.

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Agile SCRUM Governance Government 102

Bridge the Gap Consulting

APRIL 11, 2023

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. Sometimes it’s the PMO, other times a separate management group. Perceived Stakeholder Value.

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PMO Cadence Governance Government 52

Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

The shift to a product focus affects all of the three main “things” that we talk about: Structure, Governance, and Metrics. Regarding Governance: Some potentially significant changes may be needed. Regarding Structure: Teams must be aligned with product value streams.

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Agile Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Technical Review 116

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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Agile Technical Review Governance Government 62

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. I had this exercise I used to run through with people when I’d come and speak at smaller user groups.

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Governance Government SCRUM Agile 62

Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Governance (#Governance). Six Business System Rule - defines the assessment of the integrated business systems for Federal procurement and their integrity in providing information to the Government contracting office. . Putting these guides and BOK's to work for the benefit of the enterprise is the role of Project Governance.

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Technical Review Performance Measurement 2003 Governance 42

Leading Agile

MARCH 17, 2021

And I was working for this VP that was like really super cool, is very into agile and we were coming up with really creative things for like team formation strategies and agile governance, all stuff. We have to figure out how to install governance. None of the stuff on scaling was out there. We have to start getting predictable.

2021 62

2021 Agile Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM 62

Herding Cats

AUGUST 5, 2017

An interactive process of exchange of information and opinion among individuals, groups, and institutions; often involves multiple messages about the nature of risk or expressing concerns, opinions, or reactions to risk messages or to legal or institutional arrangements for risk management. Risk Management Means Risk Communications.

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Risk Management Risk Estimate Underperforming Technical Team 42

Leading Agile

MARCH 31, 2020

You get super clear backlogs, you find out what the real cadences you’ve finished work that you start. – But then it has to coordinate, there’s some governance layer, something that coordinates backlogs across multiple teams, is that right? How do you like fix it? – Yeah. – Within itself, yep.

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Agile Technical Review SCRUM Engineering 71

Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Audit: The process of analyzing a project to ensure that it is being governed as intended. Projects might additional calendars as well to show resource availability, communication cadence, etc. Change Authority: The authority (an individual or a group of individuals) who can authorize a change request in a project.

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Underperforming Technical Team Project Life Cycle Estimate Risk Management 60

MPUG

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

So this stuff is not hard and fast, but most people I’d expect given that we’re on the Microsoft Project user group, will be project program managers or maybe analysts, they’re doing some reporting around their projects and programs in their organizations. Power BI gets refreshed every month so it has a high cadence.

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Software Review 2020 Risk Management Governance 52

Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

The cadence of this event depends on the Sprint length of your Scrum Teams, which is influenced, for example, by your product, your market, governance requirements, if the Scrum Teams’ Sprints are aligned, or whether they are practicing continuous delivery anyway. After all, a Daily Scrum belongs to the Development Team.

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Technical Review Software Review Development Team Review Cadence 235

Agilemania

MAY 17, 2021

All frameworks for scaling agile share five main components: inspiration from the 12 Agile Manifesto principles, cadence, synchronization, Scrum, and quality development practices. External coaches are working with organizational, team, and technical groups. There is alignment on the definition of the product. Disciplined Agile (DA).

Agile 98

Agile Lean SCRUM Cadence 98

Agilemania

MAY 17, 2021

All frameworks for scaling agile share five main components: inspiration from the 12 Agile Manifesto principles, cadence, synchronization, Scrum, and quality development practices. External coaches are working with organizational, team, and technical groups. There is alignment on the definition of the product. Disciplined Agile (DA).

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Agile Lean SCRUM Cadence 84

Velociteach

MAY 10, 2023

More recently, the profession has grappled with two intertwined questions: Should principles or processes govern project management? By the 6 th Edition (2017), it expanded to 49 processes organized into 10 knowledge areas and 5 process groups. How could there be only one solution? Which methodology(ies) or framework(s) should be used?

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Lean Cadence PMI 2001 87

MPUG

JUNE 1, 2022

Meaning to say creating value, organizational governance and systems, functions associated with projects, the project environment, and product management considerations all provide the context for how project management could be conducted. Jeff: Here are our process groups. What’s deliverable, cadence, project phase?

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PMI Software Review Estimate Risk Management 59

Leading Agile

AUGUST 20, 2018

The same rule of thumb applies to other governance reviews, as well. ” They asked me how they could streamline the workflow and move to a more “agile” delivery cadence. In one client organization, the infrastructure support group was responsible for about 100 Linux servers and about 65 Windows servers.

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Software Review Software Technical Review Development Team Review 78

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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Agile Lean Governance Government 77