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Your Strategy Planning Meeting Agenda (with Template)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

There’s no fixed cadence for strategy conversations. If you have to hold the workshop remotely, with people dialling in, make sure you schedule enough screen breaks. 5 Considerations for a strategy planning workshop. You can hold strategic planning workshops for departments, teams or for the business overall.

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To Fix Your OKRs – Go Back to First (Familiar) Principles

Scrum.org

Figuring out the right Cadence . It’s all about finding the “goldilocks” cadence that provides frequent enough transparency and the opportunity to inspect and adapt at the right level. There can be a different cadence for everyone involved in achieving an OKR as compared to the cadence involving all stakeholders interested in that OKR.

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Getting started with a Definition of Done (DoD)

Scrum.org

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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Tips from the trenches: How to Start Up Three new Scrum teams Simultaneously.

Scrum.org

We planned this workshop just before the summer break to make sure we could inform (almost) all people impacted by this change. The head of department opened the workshop by explaining his vision and the reasons for starting this initiative. The goal was to synchronize the three teams so that they all got into the same cadence.

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The Sprint Increment Is Dead

Scrum.org

A lot of people see the Scrum Sprint as mainly a release cadence. The Scrum Sprint is first and foremost a Planning, Transparency, Inspection and Adaptation cadence. Can it also be a release cadence? Great Scrum Teams plan on a cadence. The role of the Sprint. Not the only one, but a major one. But it doesn't have to be.

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Tips from the trenches: How to startup three new Scrum teams simultaneously.

Scrum.org

We planned this workshop just before the summer break to make sure we could inform (almost) all people impacted by this change. The head of department opened the workshop by explaining his vision and the reasons for starting this initiative. The goal was to synchronize the three teams so that they all got into the same cadence.

SCRUM 217
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The Increment Is Dead

Scrum.org

A lot of people see the Scrum Sprint as mainly a release cadence. The Scrum Sprint is first and foremost a Planning, Transparency, Inspection and Adaptation cadence. Can it also be a release cadence? Great Scrum Teams plan on a cadence. The role of the Sprint. Not the only one, but a major one. But it doesn't have to be.

Cadence 150