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Runn Software Review

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It’s resource planning software that is perfect for professional services and firms that would benefit from the transparency of seeing where time is being spent. I’ve spent a long time looking at a number of resource management and capacity planning software tools and I loved this one. Hosting model: Cloud only. People planner.

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Otter Review (2022)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I use a lot of technical project management jargon that relates to our projects and industry, and I don’t have to do a lot of editing. For example, on training videos and on my courses, I offer closed captions and Otter creates those for me. I don’t think Otter is multilingual transcription software: I’ve only ever tried it in English.

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Office Timeline Review: The Pro Timeline Maker [2020]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In this review of Office Timeline Pro, I’ll share the pros and cons of the PowerPoint plugin. Summary review of Office Timeline: Office Timeline is a simple way of creating timelines for anything from inside PowerPoint or your browser. The software compares the version you created to the new version, and tell you there is a difference.

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Everything You Need to Know About Release Managers

Rebel’s Guide to PM

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. The role of a release manager is crucial in ensuring that software projects are completed on time and within budget.

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Facilitation Tips for the Sprint Review

Scrum.org

How often have you thought: "This Sprint Review is useless and boring!" or "We are just reviewing. How can you avoid poor Sprint Reviews? Interestingly, the fundamental objective and outcome from the Sprint Review are often omitted or. The purpose of the Sprint Review is to gather feedback on the. Let's skip.

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Scrum Master Interview Questions: The Sprint Review

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Scrum Master Interview Questions on the Sprint Review. Scrum has repeatedly proven to be the most popular framework for software development. Given that software is eating the world , a seasoned Scrum Master is nowadays in high demand. It is the Sprint Review. The Sprint Review According to the Scrum Guide.

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New Features vs. Technical Debt: A Product Owner's Dilemma

Scrum.org

The Product Owner must balance the demands of users against the need to ensure that the product remains up to date from a technical perspective. This often means that the Product Owner may need to choose between developing new features to satisfy customer requests and fixes for technical debt. What is technical debt?