Scrum.org

OCTOBER 1, 2024

The Kanban Method Practice of Make Policies Explicit The Kanban Method is a management method made up of principles and practices to be applied to whatever process is in place (which could be Scrum). These could include things like adherence to organisational quality standards or governance processes.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

But if it were as simple as a mindset or process change, so many Agile Transformations wouldn’t fail. Teams become structure, backlogs become governance, and working tested product becomes metrics. . Governance is the expression of the backlog at scale. Structure is the expression of teams at scale. Structure. ??Your

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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. It isn’t ignoring the corporate governance that hasn’t been dismantled yet either. You either break dependencies or you manage them.

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Planview

OCTOBER 19, 2020

It’s worth listening to Joaquim tell their story: How Santander transitioned from different companies working independently, to an integration of business with IT processes and KPIs under a single operating model. In Technology they were used to the processes and tools, so the transition was easy and simple.

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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. Traditional project management methodologies are process focused and agnostic to organizational design. The governance model? Transformation itself is a process that takes years.

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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. Solve those problems with your leadership, let me know if I can help.

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Leading Agile

JULY 13, 2021

The idea is that you teach folks how the process is supposed to work, and they will inspect and adapt and remove impediments along the way. The net effect is that we bastardize the process to accommodate the disfunction. It’s the process and governance mechanisms we use to manage the flow of work through the system.

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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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Agilemania

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Portfolio management teams apply these principles and approaches to strategy and investment funding, Agile portfolio operations, and governance. It is a part of the Lean Enterprise movement, which seeks to eliminate waste from business processes through the application of lean principles. Strategic Portfolio Review.

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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. I question why they would implement a process that doesn’t yield the desired business benefits. Second, how are we building backlogs?

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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. A SAFe agilist has deep knowledge as to what is needed to revamp your current agile product development process and attain business agility in the organization. Why SAFe Agilist (SA)?

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Digite

JUNE 13, 2018

But, for teams that chafe under the strictures of the Scrum process, Kanban can be a freeing alternative. Throughout the assembly line, “workers at each step in the process are not allowed to do work unless they are signaled with a kanban from a downstream step.”. That upper limit then becomes a formalized piece of the Kanban process.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

In the middle, you’re going to deliver features on some kind of cadence. This platform is responsible for things like ACH processing transactions, reconciliation, bill payment, etc. Typically, these platforms are dealing with incredibly high volume, large, robust mainframes, and super-fast transaction processing.

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The IIL Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Context and environmental factors should govern process requirements, specificity, and formality. Large, complex projects will require more highly structured processes than smaller ones. Risk and Assumptions Logs The assumptions and risk logs are primary tools for managing these processes. Are there new items?

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Leading Agile

MARCH 23, 2022

What do you do with planning cadences? Trying to keep the company as agile as it can possibly be so like, we try super hard to organize in ways very similar to how we ask our customers to organize and manage their processes, empower the people and you know, distribute decision making and try not to be super commanding control.

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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. . Types of PMOs. Resourcing.

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Velociteach

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Context and environmental factors should govern process requirements, specificity, and formality. Large, complex projects will require more highly structured processes than smaller ones. Risk and Assumptions Logs The assumptions and risk logs are primary tools for managing these processes. Are there new items?

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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. Teams delivering on a predictable cadence earn the trust of the business. It involves more than just IT.

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Henny Portman

MARCH 15, 2019

DAD is characterized by the following aspects: Hybrid: combines Scrum, Agile Modelling, XP, Unified Process, Kanban, Lean, Outside-In Development (OID) and other methods. Complete: DAD includes advice how development, modeling, documentation, and governance strategies fit together. Full delivery cycle.

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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. The variability of the development work is minimized through the planned cadence. Focusing on meeting the needs of the customer or market is key to success in the Cadence approach.

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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. Lifecycle phases describe the required process steps from inception to delivery. Project Baselines and Other Performance Metrics.

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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 Change is a process, and this process does not stop when the system goes live.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

The combination of high WIP (work in process), multiple and uncoordinated project assignments per individual, lack of coordination of scarce resources, and inattention to cross-team dependencies during planning led to unpredictability in software delivery. The first step has to be to bring the delivery process under control and measurement.

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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? Existing Processes and Tools. Document the processes used today. Ask if the tools dictate the process, its ability to meet the needs of the teams, reporting abilities, integrations, and issues.

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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.” Using the chosen project management process to track progress and budget.

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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. Backlogs becomes governance.

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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. Like how do you start it?

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Herding Cats

JULY 27, 2017

We were speaking a Homeland Security yesterday on Agile development in the Federal Government and there was a senior director who brought up a paradigm that resonated with me. We live in a golf course community , where our waste water is processed locally inside our area. The Waste water plant can be seen from our deck.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Management Processes (#MP). Governance (#Governance). While many of the presentations have similar titles, the content is focused on a specific set of processes and practices, while the principles are the same, since they are Immutable. . Management Processes. Table of Contents (Click the Name to go to Section).

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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

Either a Cadence Release Plan or a Capabilities Release Plan. Risk Management has 6 processes, see SEI Continuous Risk Management. Maintain the Baseline with Repeatable Processes. Business runs on the time value of money. Business has a fiduciary need to know when Value will start being accrued. . Uncertanty creates Risk.

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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. I’m kind of teaching and selling a process and a certification. He goes, yeah, I get it.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Meeting norms and processes: This establishes meeting norms and processes to ensure that meetings are productive and efficient. The Importance of Building Consensus Consensus building is a fundamental process for establishing agreement and achieving shared goals within agile teams.

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Herding Cats

JULY 29, 2017

Estimating Processes in Support of Economic Analysis. Herding Cats: Capabilities Release or Cadence Release. IT Risk Management. Why Guessing is not Estimating and Estimating is not Guessing. Making Conjectures Without Testable Outcomes. Estimating and Making Decisions in Presence of Uncertainty.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 5, 2017

These risks can be mitigated with a good risk management process. For risks that are beyond the vision of the project team a properly implemented risk management process can also rapidly quantify the risks impact and provide sound plans for mitigating its effect. Risk Management Process Model.

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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. Again, it was kinda like, which process do you pick? Primarily applying it to projects, cause we we’re like trying to solve specific processes, but it’s generally applicable, at scale as well. – Yeah.

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Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Acceptance Test: A process through which a project's end users run through the project to identify any potential issues before it can be formally accepted. Allocation describes the process for assigning resources for different project activities in the most efficient way possible. Allocation: Another term for Resource Allocation.

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