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Everything You Need to Know About Release Managers

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It wasn’t until I worked in IT as a project manager that I had a lot of contact with the release management process. My software projects needed releasing, so we had to follow the formal process and engage with the release manager to make sure that the bug fixes and new features got pushed to the production environment in a controlled way.

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

Scrum.org

People can use other processes to manage their work toward the OKRs. . This might seem like a complex process to pull off… the good news is that there’s a lot to learn from agile ways of working about facilitating such processes. Figuring out the right Cadence . There’s no need for an additional ongoing OKR cadence.

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The Forgotten Scrum Event

Scrum.org

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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Review People Over Process

Henny Portman

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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Questions to ask a project management mentor

Rebel’s Guide to PM

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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How to Become a Better Project Communicator

Project Risk Coach

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.

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Myth: Scrum is a Waste of Time

Scrum.org

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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