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Everything You Need to Know About Release Managers

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The release manager at my last job worked closely with the development team to review what code changes would be coming. Once everything looks good from a technical standpoint, the release manager could start working on preparing communications about the upcoming software change. And then the cycle begins again!

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

Leading Agile

But as companies scale, as the market shifts and more parts of the business become software-focused, there’s been an increase in demand for an end-to-end solution to help large organizations build infrastructure around sound technical practices. I’m Matt VanVleet, the Chief Technology Officer for Leading Agile.

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Unlocking the Power and Mastery of Development Approach and Life Cycle

Project Pulse Journal

This domain facilitates strategic alignment, optimized delivery cadence, methodology customization, increased flexibility, and improved risk management. The desire for a project management framework that sustains deliverability, supports the required cadence, and remains faithful to an adaptable methodology is now within reach.

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Half Agile Isn’t Real Transformation

Leading Agile

Tech Infrastructure != Many organizations divide their technology stack between front-end and back-end systems and place an API boundary between the two. I’m including all IT resources “in front of” the API layer in the organization’s technical infrastructure. Value Stream. Half-Agile Transformations.

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“Agile Is Just for Software” and other Scrum Myths

Scrum.org

For example, Scrum includes five events: the Sprint, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and the Sprint Retrospective. PI Planning serves as the cornerstone of the Agile Release Train within SAFe, establishing a synchronized cadence for multiple teams to work together towards a common goal. It is deliberately incomplete.

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Map Your Route to Mastering Agile Fluency

Scrum.org

And in the 21st century for software development teams, this means realizing the paradigm of Continuous Delivery. Plus, the technical capabilities in the form of teams focused on the value as goals and priorities. After focusing, delivering goes – as a shift towards creating customer-facing self-managing teams.

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SAFe Simply Explained (Part 1): Core Competencies and Principles

Inloox

What usually started in software development can now be extended to the entire company and thus, change the way people collaborate. Large corporations in particular, which are in urgent need of more agility due to entrenched structures, usually have the hardest time implementing an agile transformation. But it’s not that easy.