The Lazy Project Manager

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Setting up a consistent cadence for feedback can reassure both the employee and team manager that the best work is being produced. Following the right processes and going above and beyond in collaboration practices will assure that your team is working towards the same goals at the same pace.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 5, 2021

We also streamlined our legacy deployment process into CI/CD pipelines which removed a painful friction to frequent deployments. . A bonus on top of that, would be deep knowledge about the business processes relevant to your product. CADENCE & RELIABILITY. CADENCE: What was the sprint cadence you folks started off with?

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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. THE COMMUNICATIONS MANAGEMENT PROCESS. There are numerous examples where project communication supports other project management processes.

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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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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. Having read the policy/process document/standard operating procedure on Y, I have a few questions. What might my blind spots be in this process? Can I tell you what’s happened since we last spoke?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 11, 2022

In other words, what do you want to get out of your strategic planning process? There’s no fixed cadence for strategy conversations. If you are putting together your first strategy or doing a complete overhaul, you’ll need to spend a lot more time on it to get the strategic process set up and the relevant data collected.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 22, 2020

The degree of dynamism of a problem or activity requires the right forms of process and stability to be in place in order to have some form of control. Complex work is actually more unpredictable than it is predictable. Complex problems are dynamic, not static. It is why Sprints, as container events, have a fixed time-box.

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Scrum.org

MAY 25, 2024

Increased Complexity Kanban may introduce additional layers of process management that can complicate an already shaky Scrum practice. Introducing Kanban may feel like managing two sets of processes simultaneously, which can be overwhelming if your team is not confident with Scrum.

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Kiron Bondale

MAY 26, 2019

Teams which don’t use feedback loops with their products and their processes should not consider themselves to be very agile. 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.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 3, 2023

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. In fact, many people don’t even realize that it is an event in Scrum. There’s no meeting for “The Sprint”, you see.

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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. This approach simplifies the estimation process and fosters a sense of uniformity. What Is Same Sizing? The result?

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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. Each agile framework provides its own ceremonies but given that Scrum is still the most commonly referenced one, let’s focus on that framework’s events.

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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. It forces to you evaluate whether your work moves your goals forward. No Multitasking.

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Henny Portman

JULY 26, 2020

Levine wrote with People Over Process – Leadership for Agility a very pragmatic and down to earth book about leadership and agile projects. 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.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

Embedding OKRs into Scrum's Inspect/Adapt Cadence. When OKRs are embedded into the inspect and adapt process, the Sprint Review provides a unique opportunity to inspect steps toward Objectives by assessing movements in Key Result Areas, i.e., EBM measures such as: Lead time from idea to delivery to market.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 2, 2018

The Sprint Increment that had to be potentially releasable caused you a lot of pain as you were trying to improve your processes and capabilities, implement Continuous Integration, and finally gain the ability to actually have a releasable Increment each Sprint. A lot of people see the Scrum Sprint as mainly a release cadence.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Moreover, we'll delve into the specific Flow Metrics that warrant your attention – those metrics directly bearing on your delivery process's efficiency and effectiveness. Flow Metrics are quantitative measures that offer a panoramic view of work progressing through your delivery process. What Are Flow Metrics?

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

But learning about empirical process control, Values, Principles, essentials elements and rules of Scrum doesn’t guarantee your success. They are accountable for delivering done working products every cadence and satisfy customer needs. It is an excellent start to Scrum and an excellent first step for a Scrum Master.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 2, 2018

The Increment that had to be potentially releasable caused you a lot of pain as you were trying to improve your processes and capabilities, implement Continuous Integration, and finally gain the ability to actually have a releasable Increment each Sprint. A lot of people see the Scrum Sprint as mainly a release cadence.

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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. SAFe has a cadence at the Team and Program levels.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 7, 2020

This category of the Product Owner theses addresses the meta-level of the Product Owner role and the Scrum process: The Product Owner embraces, shares, and communicates the product vision, representing the customer voice and internal stakeholders. Additionally, there is the Product Backlog refinement as a continuous process.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The emergent process and work must be visible to those performing the work as well as those receiving the work. In my experience, many internal transparency issues are rooted in organizational processes or practices or particular individuals. To help with inspection, Scrum provides cadence in the form of its five events.”.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 24, 2024

These events need to happen on a cadence of one month per less to ensure that the team is collaborating frequently enough to reduce risk (the Sprint). The Sprint Retrospective empowers the Scrum team to own their process, minimizing the need for managerial intervention later.

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LiquidPlanner

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Are you thinking about introducing agile processes to your project management methodology? You’re having conversations about the process and the deliverables regularly so the team has opportunities to raise concerns. And you’re more confident that the output of the development process will be fit for purpose.

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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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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 6, 2022

It’s fine to have a different cadence at different points in the project lifecycle. A survey by the Centre for Complexity and Change at The Open University found that a third of project managers are involved in the decision making process but are not the sole decision maker themselves*. When to hold the meetings.

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Scrum.org

MAY 24, 2022

I think of the Sprint as the heartbeat of Scrum because it sets the cadence and frequency for the other events. Members discuss how the Sprint went regarding individuals, interactions, processes, tools, and their Definition of Done. The first event in Scrum is the Sprint. The Sprint has a timebox of no longer than one month.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 4, 2022

The duration of the Sprint is timeboxed to a maximum of one month, establishing a cadence within which the Scrum team works together to deliver value. Additionally, Scrum is based on the empirical process, which relies upon transparency, inspection, and adaptation. Below are five of the most common misconceptions about the Sprint. .

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Kiron Bondale

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

But the steps in Kotter’s model, like PMBOK processes, are not to be followed in a purely sequential manner. . The specific cadence varies based on the complexity and duration of a transformation. As such, we need to iterate back to instilling that sense of true urgency at regular intervals.

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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.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 6, 2019

Once about four or five key results are determined for each objective, it is the job of an OKR Champion (servant leader) to coach and guide the team in executing on a cadence towards the objectives. Unfortunately, in most cases, that is where the process ends, and a new series of OKR begins.

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Scrum.org

JULY 21, 2023

Leveraging the Professional Scrum Master's Role in UX A pivotal role in this process is the Professional Scrum Master. Through their coaching role, the Scrum Master can promote efficient integration of UX design into the development process, enabling the team to create products that deliver maximum value to the users and the business.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Waterfall projects rarely work because it doesn’t account for the micro, and sometimes macro changes that happen in the process. My clients get to decide the cadence of our “events.” Our cadence isn’t set to a specific time box but rather by sets of 5 Skills, Habits, and Behaviors. Planning is done a little differently.

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Scrum.org

JULY 21, 2020

This directly relates to the Agile values : “Individuals and Interactions Over Process and Tools”. They have these conversations at the appropriate cadence, for appropriate duration's in order to elevate the transparency in their work. These are conversations to plan, synchronize, and to reflect. The Quad Fitness Pvt.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Meanwhile, some ideas have gained buzzword status in the process, causing the occasional collateral damage along the way. This core agile product creation process is agnostic to the product delivery framework, be it Scrum, XP, or any other framework. Think of “MVP.”). Download for free : The Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide.).

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

They can be stewards of design processes, user-centricity, and hypothesis-driven development across teams. As a person interested in “individuals and interactions over process and tools,” I wanted to start this UX and Scrum conversation with the human aspects of bringing design and development closer together.

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Project Risk Coach

MAY 15, 2017

Imagine a business analyst who is mapping a business process. Notice the cadence, pauses, and the repetitions in the speech. Imagine a developer who is creating a website. Wireframes are a great way to share the user interface screens and get feedback before writing code. Study Great Communicators.

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