Henny Portman

OCTOBER 14, 2024

By unlocking the principles of lean, agile, value stream management (VSM), and leveraging digital advancements, the book guides readers on how to effectively streamline workflows, boost efficiency, and drive business results in today’s digital landscape. The authors also introduce the Business Agility System for Enterprise (BASE) concepts.

Lean 52

Lean Technical Review Agile Sustainability 52

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Chances are that you said something like “Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, and…. And yet, the Sprint serves a pivotal role in Scrum by setting the cadence for feedback, inspection and adaptation in Scrum. However, it's crucial to recognize that the Sprint sets the cadence for all of the other events.

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SCRUM Cadence Technical Review Development Team Review 194

Scrum.org

JANUARY 4, 2022

So, there are no directions about HOW to run your Scrum team. It is a container event, which means that it contains all other events, including Sprint Planning, the Daily Scrum, the Sprint Retrospective, and the Sprint Review. Wouldn’t you want to meet with stakeholders more often at the Sprint Review to get feedback?

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SCRUM 2020 Cadence Technical Review 228

Scrum.org

MAY 24, 2022

The Sprint Planning meeting happens just once per Sprint, and the same goes for the Review and Retrospective events. Following is a description of each event and how you can reduce the need for other meetings by practicing them. . How the Sprint Planning event reduces the need for other meetings. Sprint Review.

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SCRUM Cadence Technical Review 2020 221

Leading Agile

APRIL 24, 2019

Tech Infrastructure != Many organizations divide their technology stack between front-end and back-end systems and place an API boundary between the two. I’m including all IT resources “in front of” the API layer in the organization’s technical infrastructure. Value Stream. Half-Agile Transformations.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Agile Cadence Infrastructure 120

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 2, 2018

In contexts of growing business and technical uncertainty, those with the fastest feedback loop win. These are nice levels of transparency that are much better than just reviewing documentation of course, but they leave a lot to be desired. A lot of people see the Scrum Sprint as mainly a release cadence.

Cadence 156

Cadence Development Team Review Technical Review Software Review 156

Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

To use the leadership styles model we discuss in the Leading SAFe class - the starting point is more of an orchestrating and technical expert kind of leadership stance and the goal should be to evolve towards a more serving the team and the process style over time. Beyond how SAFe is defined, there's also how people perceive it.

SCRUM 123

SCRUM Development Team Review Technical Review Cadence 123

Scrum.org

APRIL 11, 2019

Firstly, there is often no clearly formulated vision, or a missing plan on how to achieve a vision. I was successful with optimising for feature size that could be delivered in a two-sprint cadence. Connect the dots by making reporting on market research data and customer feedback data a mandatory item of the Sprint Review.

Underperforming Technical Team 180

Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Development Team Review Software Review 180

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 2, 2018

In contexts of growing business and technical uncertainty, those with the fastest feedback loop win. These are nice levels of transparency that are much better than just reviewing documentation of course, but they leave a lot to be desired. A lot of people see the Scrum Sprint as mainly a release cadence.

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Cadence Development Team Review Technical Review Software Review 150

Digite

MARCH 12, 2018

That is, does the question below, which I answered on a technical forum recently, describe a situation you might be facing or may have faced in the past? These may seem like three distinct questions, but are, in my mind one: how to structure the Kanban board – around people, or around tasks? Is this you?

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Development Team Review Software Review Cadence Technical Review 154

Scrum.org

APRIL 30, 2019

They use practices, people, and technology to find a way to overcome their disability of delivering value to market too slowly. In the beginning, they have trouble seeing how it will work in their current day to day environment. What about performance reviews? You do get better at learning how to pick yourself up when you fall.

Agile 158

Agile Cadence Technical Review Development Team Review 158

Henny Portman

MARCH 15, 2019

The goals of the Inception phase are: form initial team, develop common vision, align with enterprise direction, explore initial scope, identify initial technical strategy, develop initial release plan, secure funding, form work environment, identify risks and develop initial test strategy.

Technical Review 53

Technical Review Agile Lean Cadence 53

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Apparently, there is a difference in the inspect & adapt cadence when product strategy and Sprint Backlog are compared to each other. The product roadmap needs to be adapted to the learnings from running product experiments regularly in an appropriate cadence to meet that standard. Participation is free.).

Software Review 194

Software Review Cadence Technical Review SCRUM 194

Planio

JANUARY 11, 2021

In this guide, we’re going to cover the tools, processes, and cultural shifts you need to make to successfully collaborate from wherever you are, Jump to a section: How to reverse Remote Sprawl: 10 reasons teams spread across time zones fall apart (and how to avoid them). Teams (or teammates) who don’t know how to work remotely.

Underperforming Technical Team 88

Underperforming Technical Team Cadence CTO Hire Technical Review 88

Redbooth

APRIL 26, 2018

If you work in tech or any industry where things change fast, you probably are familiar with agile project management. Agile methods are baked into productivity tech, from Trello to Airtable to Redbooth, and can improve any large body of work, from ad campaigns to app design. Reviews : Feedback sessions held at critical junctures.

Agile 128

Agile Technical Review Cadence Software Review 128

Agilemania

JANUARY 19, 2022

It would be better if you could get someone knowledgeable to review it. Review all the answers before submitting. Cadence synchronize with crossdomain planning. Establishing team and technical agility (3%). How to download SPC Certification after completing the examination? SAFe Core Values. Lean Agile Mindset .

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Certification Lean Technical Review Consulting 98

Scrum.org

JULY 31, 2023

Their work was restricted to: specifying changes requested by the operational teams, assigning them as tasks to technical teams somewhere in the adjacent IT group, chasing progress. The queue of work was huge due to the long waiting times for the work in progress. They were wasting time chasing their changes to be delivered.

Technical Review 172

Technical Review Software Review 2022 2021 172

Planview

JUNE 1, 2021

Hosted by CITF, the UK’s leading membership organization for technology professionals, the webinar includes our insights and recommendations on extending Agile practices. How to Start Your Own Transformation Journey – Questions and Answers from the Webinar. Where do you begin? What needs to change?

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Cadence Logistics Lean Agile 148

Leading Agile

JULY 28, 2022

This means they know the scope of what’s required, how to complete it, and when it needs to be delivered. Work is then incrementally completed and kept track of through daily stand-up meetings, and the sprint is reviewed afterward to see what can be improved next time. Getting to a Definition of Done.

Agile 127

Agile Technical Review Cadence Software Review 127

Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Owns its technology stack. That’s six Sprint Planning sessions, six daily standups, six reviews, and retrospectives. In the middle, you’re going to deliver features on some kind of cadence. But, in reality, this often isn’t reasonable due to the distribution of skills across teams. Has a singular input.

Agile 127

Agile Technical Review SCRUM Cadence 127

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. The technology architecture? And in large organizations, training teams on how to do Scrum or XP is wholly insufficient. How do we know we are making progress?

Agile 133

Agile Government Governance Underperforming Technical Team 133

Leading Agile

MARCH 31, 2021

One common pitfall is assuming that the technological encapsulation of products by breaking dependencies (through a loosely coupled architecture and a mature CI/CD pipeline) is a prerequisite for the encapsulation of value streams. While the mechanisms of these antipatterns are slightly different, they all end up driving the same impact.

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Technical Review Government 118

Leading Agile

AUGUST 22, 2018

The Slippery Slope of “Yes” In many cases, stakeholders of technical teams ask for everything they can imagine they might need. They don’t know how to tell you. Let’s say you’re using a two-week cadence, as that’s pretty typical and is what most agile coaches recommend as a starting point.

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Underperforming Technical Team Cadence Technical Review Software Review 82

Scrum.org

JANUARY 30, 2023

This article is another excursion into this nascent yet fascinating new technology of generative AI and LLMs and the future of knowledge work. I was interested in learning more about a typical daily challenge many agile practitioners face: How shall we successfully pursue an agile transformation? I am no longer sure about that.

ChatGPT 218

ChatGPT Agile Artificial Inteligence Consulting 218

Digite

JUNE 13, 2018

She also shows you how to design your first Kanban Board, with examples. Shows how a marketing team can benefit by Visualizing work on a Kanban Board! The limit on work being reviewed, however, might be different, depending on how long this piece of the workflow takes, how many people are assigned to review work, and other factors.

Agile 110

Agile Technical Review Cadence Software Review 110

Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The LeadingAgile reference architecture guides you around how to create a structural model for your organization, a governance model, and a model for the kinds of metrics and tools you may want to use to demonstrate value to your enterprise . Your organizational structure forms the backbone for how your Agile enterprise will operate.

Agile 112

Agile Government Governance Cadence 112

Planio

MARCH 13, 2023

7 real benefits of writing good project status reports How to structure a project status report: 3 Examples 1. This leaves you at risk of becoming one of the 54% of projects fail that fail due to poor KPI tracking. On the other hand, if you’re working at a small tech startup, your report might focus more on costs and timelines.

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Technical Review Risk Management 78

Leading Agile

JULY 18, 2023

When people make such statements, they usually mean that they have trained product owners and a proficient Scrum master, and their team consistently follows the cadence of sprint planning, daily stand-ups, interviews, and retrospectives. We want the team to like the way that they work. Agile is not going to do a whole lot for you.

Agile 118

Agile Software Review Certification Technical Review 118

Planio

AUGUST 9, 2021

How to write a project schedule in 9 steps. Monday.com: Best for non-technical teams. In this guide, we’ll teach you how to write a project schedule, keep it updated throughout the project lifecycle , and use it to get buy-in on scope and resources. How is a project schedule different from a project plan or SOW?

Software Review 78

Software Review Technical Review Estimate Agile 78

Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Because the recovery phase was not officially recognized (typically due to time reporting rules that prohibited honesty regarding overtime), management missed the opportunity to learn from experience and repeated the death march pattern again and again. Survival is the best the teams can hope for. Business Impact. Stable Team.

Agile 116

Agile Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Technical Review 116

Planio

JULY 4, 2022

Sprint review ceremony. Sprint review: At the end of each sprint cycle, teams meet to demo what they’ve shipped and get early feedback from stakeholders. These review sessions can be informal ‘show and tell’ sessions or more formal meetings. Here’s how to keep your team fueled up: 1. How will the chosen work get done?

Agile 88

Agile Technical Review Development Team Review Software Review 88

Leading Agile

APRIL 4, 2023

The team meets on a regular cadence, identifies the backlog, breaks the backlog down, roughly plans out their work. We do reviews and retrospectives, right? But in a lot of corporations and a lot of technology platforms, you don’t have that level of encapsulation at the team level. That’s typically Scrum.

Technical Review 115

Technical Review Agile SCRUM Government 115

Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Even though organisations are executing more projects to get more work done, they are also managing bigger and increasingly transformational projects due to the increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) business environment. Watch the webinar on how to navigate ambiguity here. Conflict management.

Leadership 65

Leadership Technical Review PMO Cadence 65

Leading Agile

AUGUST 13, 2018

Technical teams who are building or supporting application software usually work from a prioritized list of improvements, new features, and ideas to try out. All that unplanned activity used to create stress for technical workers. Adding a task is all well and good, but how does that prevent the same pattern from occurring again?

Software Review 100

Software Review Technical Review Cadence SCRUM 100

Wrike

APRIL 21, 2023

Daunted by the idea of figuring out how to write an SOP for your own team or organization? Not only do SOPs lead to consistent results, but they also make team members’ lives easier by removing the guesswork of trying to figure out how to complete a particular process from start to finish. Here’s what this could look like: 1.

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Technical Review Software Review Cadence Process 36

Planio

AUGUST 1, 2022

According to research published in Harvard Business Review , nearly 90% of companies struggle to complete Agile transformations — even after successful pilot projects. Technology: Agile organizations need to trust their data and have the infrastructure ready to build and test new ideas rapidly. How will they be managed?

Agile 78

Agile Technical Review Leadership Infrastructure 78

Leading Agile

JANUARY 21, 2021

And what that means to us is not just teaching people how to do agile or how to do kind of methodologies in this space like say for Scrum or what have you but really like how to create the kinds of organizations that really can do agile really well and really effectively at scale. Here’s how you do sprint planning.

Sustainability 111

Sustainability Agile SCRUM Technical Review 111