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Your Strategy Planning Meeting Agenda (with Template)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Have you been asked to pull together a strategy planning meeting agenda? And you’re wondering what other people do in their strategic planning sessions… I’ve been there! 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.

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Everything You Need to Know About Release Managers

Rebel’s Guide to PM

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

Scrum.org

Many organisations wrestle with the seeming incompatibility between agile and release management, and they struggle with release planning and predictable delivery. Without a regular cadence of delivery of working software any belief that you will get a usable increment is misguided at best. Release planning and predictable delivery.

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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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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. WHERE THE PLAN GOES WRONG. Projects that you targeted did not start when you planned. Unplanned events, outages, and work eat at the money you planned to invest in a new value. The projects can be planned in detail.

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Project Communication Management: What is it all about?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Did you know that 56% of your project budget might be at risk due to poor communications? However, having a plan for how to share information throughout a project’s lifecycle is critical to project success. The concern was ultimately addressed along with a plan update to include all key stakeholders. who support it.

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Do not compromise on knowledge when filling the Product Owner role

Kiron Bondale

An average delivery team might still be able to successfully launch a product or service even if it is late, over budget or not at the highest level of quality. It is also the role which has the greatest impact on achieving expected delivery outcomes. But what if the product owner has insufficient domain or organizational knowledge?

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