Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

I like to talk about project managers being the glue that holds the team together, and we do that through discussion, conversation, facilitated meetings and chat. You will also need to consider the frequency and detail preferred by the most influential stakeholders so that you can meet their expectations from the beginning.

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Project Risk Coach

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Project managers spend a large part of each day communicating—facilitating meetings, emailing stakeholders, responding to texts, writing reports, and having one-on-one conversations. Notice the cadence, pauses, and the repetitions in the speech. So, why not ask someone to observe you when you speak, teach, or facilitate a meeting.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 21, 2022

We had a fortnightly release (and therefore a giant scrabble to try to get your changes in before the cut-off and presented to the CAB in time), but your company might have monthly releases or use a different cadence. Key roles and responsibilities of the job. The role involves planning the release scope (the contents of what’s going in).

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 22, 2024

Reduces Predictability When Scrum teams work together, they develop a cadence of value delivery. This variability makes it very difficult to accurately predict when the Scrum team will meet target delivery dates or when the Scrum team will deliver the desired value. This reduces transparency and trust.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Whether you’re excited to meet them for the first time, or have had a few calls/sessions already, you are probably wondering if you are using their time effectively and asking the right questions. Use these as a starting point in your meetings with your mentor and see where the conversation takes you. Still looking for a mentor?

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Such elements might include handoffs (specialization or authorization), queues (describing the same work at different levels), groups of teams not working in the same cadence, etc. Proposed remedial actions: Try to match the size of the work realistically to the cadence (do the stories fit in the iteration, and the features in the Pis?).

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Scrum.org

JULY 15, 2024

This helps in organizing work and maintaining momentum, as team members can see the finish line and are motivated to push through any obstacles to meet the deadline. Predictable Progress: The regular cadence of Sprints provides a predictable schedule for delivering increments of work, enhancing transparency and trust with stakeholders.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 3, 2023

There’s no meeting for “The Sprint”, you see. 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. The Sprint is the most commonly overlooked event in Scrum.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 24, 2024

When people first start learning about Scrum, it can seem like Scrum requires many meetings. Each Scrum event has a purpose, and each event reduces the need for other meetings by ensuring that the team collaborates effectively. Here’s how the events reduce other meetings. It might even seem like Scrum is a waste of time.

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The Lazy Project Manager

DECEMBER 9, 2020

While teams cannot not physically meet face-to-face, creating a video-first culture is the next best thing. Conducting meetings and calls on video conferencing software creates more meaningful interactions between coworkers and helps employees focus on the task at hand. Embrace a video-first culture.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 5, 2021

CADENCE & RELIABILITY. CADENCE: What was the sprint cadence you folks started off with? What was sustainable cadence after improvements? In addition to all 5 scrum events, we added a pre-planning meeting at the halfway mark of the sprint to look ahead at the next sprint. UAT is part of DOD. .

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 2, 2024

They will now review these indicators for each initiative on a cadence to decide whether to continue investing, pivot, or stop altogether. In their leadership meetings, they walk this Kanban board right to left. Ella suggested this based on some of her experience in Lean.

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Management Yogi

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

There are dates I’ve to meet, which may not be every week or two weeks, but release will happen on a cadence. In fact, in my work such as preparing professional courses, certifications or writing management books, I personally use certain aspects of Kanban. The work is mostly iterative

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NimbleWork

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

A retrospective meeting is an opportunity for the team to reflect on what went well during the sprint (if we’re using Scrum terminology), what could have been done better and to discuss any actions that fall out of that discussion which would improve and iterate for next time. How to Run an Engaging Retrospective?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 6, 2022

In this article we’ll look at what is a project board, and other names they are known by, who should be there, when to schedule meetings, what to talk about, how to report to this group and lots more so you can make sure it’s working effectively and efficiently. Call your meetings anything you like. What is a project board?

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Kiron Bondale

MARCH 15, 2020

Sufficient capacity, knowledge and empowerment are needed to succeed in this role, but every time I teach an agile foundations class and ask the participants whether their companies are able to meet all three of these requirements for assigning product owners to their most important value streams, very rarely do I get an unqualified “Yes!”

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 22, 2021

You will also need to consider the frequency and detail preferred by the most influential stakeholders so that you can meet their expectations from the beginning. This step is all about action – issuing meeting minutes, providing reports, and documenting proposed changes as agreed. THE COMMUNICATIONS MANAGEMENT PROCESS.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 22, 2024

How to Build Trust with Executives Often, agile transformation meets resistance from executives who fear the risks associated with change. Transformation is an investment, and the results of that investment need to be communicated on a regular cadence.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 10, 2021

If a Product Backlog item does not meet the Definition of Done, it cannot be released or even presented at the Sprint Review. Increment meets agreed engineering standards – You should decide rules for naming of methods, tests, variables and everything in-between. The 2020 Scrum Guide. What is a Definition of Done (DoD).

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LiquidPlanner

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

You create a delivery cadence Timeboxing in agile is a way of wrapping up work into a clearly defined iteration (or sprint). This creates a cadence for continuous delivery: there are new features released at the end of every iteration. Everyone knows what deadline they are working towards and what’s expected in that time.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 1, 2024

This could include the provision of meetings with the right attendees at a regular cadence such as team retrospectives, service delivery reviews and operations reviews. There may be some policies that are non-negotiable and are expected to be followed. Policies can also be agreed on for how decisions are made.

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Kiron Bondale

APRIL 18, 2021

Whether your team sets a regular cadence for external product reviews or they are conducted on a just-in-time basis, it is important to get actionable feedback. But conducting a review is not just a matter of bringing people together. ” or “ How could we make this feature add more value to you?

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MPUG

DECEMBER 28, 2020

An Increment happens when a backlogged item meets the DoD. 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. Now, within a Sprint, multiple Increments can happen.

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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

MAY 4, 2023

When his interest is also High, you may like to meet this person on a 1:1 basis or at least invite him to the respective Sprint Reviews. But the Product Owner was too busy with other meetings. Then we started digging a little deep bit into what conversation she was having in these meetings and with whom.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 7, 2023

During the Sprint, the Developers meet daily to inspect their progress and adapt their plan for the next 24 hours. At the end of the Sprint, the Scrum Team reviews the Done increment with stakeholders at the Sprint Review, and then the Scrum Team meets to discuss how they can improve how they work together.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 8, 2024

This domain facilitates strategic alignment, optimized delivery cadence, methodology customization, increased flexibility, and improved risk management. The desire for a project management framework that sustains deliverability, supports the required cadence, and remains faithful to an adaptable methodology is now within reach.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 7, 2023

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. They are instrumental in fostering a positive and productive environment within the team, ensuring that meetings are timeboxed and constructive.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

When used with Scrum and the value-based metrics of the Evidence Based Management (EBM) framework, the ability for the enterprise to inspect and adapt its initiatives in order to meet the challenges of disruptive change increases both the relevance and outcomes driven by OKRs supported by Scrum's empiricism. . Conclusions.

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Kiron Bondale

DECEMBER 2, 2018

The Scrum Guide calls sprints the heart of Scrum as these time boxes set the cadence for all other events. It should also reduce bad surprises and the need for traditional status meetings. But to know if the Scrum heart is healthy we could track achievement of goals and value delivered sprint-over-sprint.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 15, 2021

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. Otherwise, the team will begin to feel like multiple, independent departments working toward different goals.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 14, 2021

Empiricism via working integrated increments every Sprint - System Demo & Nexus Sprint Review meeting a common Definition of “Done”. The Nexus Sprint Review and the System Demo are similar events happening on a similar cadence - every several weeks (Sprint/Iteration). Adjust Cadences and level of participation.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Armed with the data, you can set realistic deadlines, allocate resources efficiently, and prevent delays that might disrupt your delivery cadence. We cover how to create these scatter plots in the Applying Flow Metrics for Scrum and Professional Scrum with Kanban classes. This metric is purely an output measure.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 22, 2020

Teams should not be all over the place in terms of getting dragged to external meetings regularly or having to work in multiple teams or on multiple projects. People dare not speak up or need to move to separate meeting rooms to do so. It requires dedication. It is why Sprints, as container events, have a fixed time-box.

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Project Bliss

JANUARY 5, 2021

Your teammates don’t want to sit through any more meetings that could have been an email. You already – hopefully – know that it’s critical to run your meetings well. And your teammates are tired of spending hours in unnecessary meetings. ” So you may be doing your best to run great meetings.

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LiquidPlanner

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Increasing visibility ensures everyone involved in the project understands what the objectives are for the work and their personal role in meeting this goal – and managers spend a lot of time trying to achieve that. A work management software tool can help, but only if everyone looks at it. Enhance transparency and trust.

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Planio

JANUARY 11, 2021

Timing and team cadence: Decouple team cadences whenever possible. This can be done informally during meetings or more systematically in lessons learned or during sprint retrospectives. Do you need to have this meeting? Timing and team cadence: Decouple team cadences whenever possible. As Todd A.

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