Using the Plan-Do-Check-Adjust (PDCA) Cycle in Defining Cadence

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The PDCA cycle is a strategy organizations use to solve problems to achieve change and improve operations and products. The cycle has four stages: planning, execution, monitoring, and assessing (Schwalbe, 2019). Planning involves developing a detailed list of technical stories and tasks that should be completed in a sprint. This helps in establishing what every given sprint can achieve, going by the availability of team members on every day of the sprint. During planning, developers can create a product backlog which will facilitate prioritizing the most important functions. Planning also enables the team to evaluate and bring up-to-date capacity estimates versus the actual ones (Schwalbe, 2019). On the other hand, execution refers to the actual implementation of the project to create the desired product. It can also be referred to as formulating corresponding measures and putting them into practice (Ma et al., 2022). In the predictive version, a team completes several tasks, while in t...