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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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The Difference Between Right Sizing and Same Sizing of Work Items (and Why You Should Care)

Scrum.org

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. Real-World Example of Right Sizing: Take a software development project. What Is Same Sizing? The result?

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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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Unlocking the Power and Mastery of Development Approach and Life Cycle

Project Pulse Journal

This domain, as established by the Project Management Institute in the PMBOK 7th edition, addresses the underlying apprehension many face: the potential overcomplication of project management processes. Your pursuit of streamlining and enhancing project management processes led you to a pivotal crossroads.

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Project Management: Principles, Practices & Context

Velociteach

More recently, the profession has grappled with two intertwined questions: Should principles or processes govern project management? Processes describe the inputs, tools, techniques, and outputs used to execute project activities. A toolkit is a collection of techniques and practices used within the project processes.

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An Agile Scrum Process Diagram for Strategic PM

The Strategic Project Manager

This post outlines the essentials of the agile scrum process. It then delves a little deeper into the most important element of the process – the sprint. It then looks at implications of the agile scrum process for project management and strategy. A Basic Agile Scrum Process Diagram. Sprints and the Team.

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Are These DevOps Obstacles Getting in the Way of Your Agile Transformation?

Leading Agile

We need to obtain buy-in, address ambiguity, and navigate the process. Additionally, we may encounter challenges with packaged software that make the transformation harder. Dealing with Packaged Software The first one, it came up, right? Different change cadences. Share your thoughts. Type of tightly coupled integrations.