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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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Estimate at Completion: A Complete Guide + Template

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Now we’ve approved the budget and the project has started, how much will it really cost? What has that done to the budget? Given that plenty of studies show cost overruns, some finding that 9 out of 10 projects go over budget (averaging 28% overspent), it’s not surprising that project sponsors want to keep a tight grip on costs.

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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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The Transformation Journey: Lessons Learned

Planview

It’s difficult to react swiftly to change when your plans and budgets are set in stone. A continuous planning cadence – quarterly, monthly, or even weekly – enables organizations to be ready to move fast when change occurs, or new opportunities appear on the horizon. Patrick has dubbed this phenomenon “strategy atrophy.”

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Why Your Annual Operating Plan Is A Lie and What To Do About It

Leading Agile

You prepare an annual operating plan outlining your budget and allocations every year. We define the Governance rules that control how value flows through that Structure. Annual budgets are a given–the company must plan its finances on an annual horizon. Imagine you’re a CIO, CTO, IT Leader, or Finance Manager.

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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It’s fine to have a different cadence at different points in the project lifecycle. Budget position. Make sure you have the latest info on project budgets and how close the project is to meeting its goals. When to hold the meetings. Senior leadership is always interested in how much money has been spent! Action updates.

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The Roles and Responsibilities of a SAFe Agilist You Never Knew

Agilemania

Be it monitoring and control, collaboration, stakeholders onboarding, change management, and governance methods, the problems only keep increasing. Apply cadence, synchronize with cross-domain planning. Working with lean agile principles helps the SAFe Agilist in building the Agile Portfolio management with lean budgeting.

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