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Everything You Need to Know About Release Managers

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In this article, I’ll explain what a release manager does and what skills you need to make a success of this role. We had a fortnightly release (and therefore a giant scrabble to try to get your changes in before the cut-off and presented to the CAB in time), but your company might have monthly releases or use a different cadence.

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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. Can you show me an example of when you’ve done Y so I can compare it to what I’m doing? Can you give me some examples of productivity here? Can I tell you what’s happened since we last spoke?

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

Scrum.org

see this article for a deeper dive on what working ON the business might look like, leverage the perspective of Private Equity firms who focus on working on the business to maximize value creation). Figuring out the right Cadence . The right cadence also provides an opportunity to reinforce/communicate strategic priorities and focus.

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Use MVIs for team improvements

Kiron Bondale

Whether a team uses a scheduled cadence for reviewing their WoW such as the use of retrospectives in Scrum, or they use a just-in-time approach they will come up with improvement ideas. For example, they might not have sufficient budget left to purchase a new tool. But what about changes to the team’s way of working (WoW)?

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Estimate at Completion: A Complete Guide + Template

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In this article, I’ll explain what Estimate at Completion is for project managers, how to use it (because there are 4 different ways) and give you examples. For example, when tasks are forecast to take longer than expected: this also have an impact on costs if you charge for resource time. Example of Estimate at Completion.

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Scaling Agile Practices – Improve Business Outcomes

Agilemania

Develop on Cadence; Release on Demand. In SAFe®, this is known as Develop on Cadence, a coordinated set of practices that support Agile Teams by providing a reliable series of events and activities that occur on a regular, predictable schedule. Agile Team and Agile Release Train Cadences. Release on Demand. Intermediate.

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Your Strategy Planning Meeting Agenda (with Template)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In this article, I’ll explain what a strategic planning meeting can cover and share a sample agenda you can customize for your strategy sessions. There’s no fixed cadence for strategy conversations. Present the overall roadmap, for example, a timeline for the 5 year plan. For example, there are always conversations about budget.

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