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Everything You Need to Know About Release Managers

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It wasn’t until I worked in IT as a project manager that I had a lot of contact with the release management process. 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.

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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? In this article, I’ll explain project communication management, why it matters, give an overview of the communications process, and some examples of where you might apply it on your own projects. THE COMMUNICATIONS MANAGEMENT PROCESS.

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13 Reasons to Choose Agile Project Management Methods

LiquidPlanner

Are you thinking about introducing agile processes to your project management methodology? You’re having conversations about the process and the deliverables regularly so the team has opportunities to raise concerns. And you’re more confident that the output of the development process will be fit for purpose.

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Your Strategy Planning Meeting Agenda (with Template)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In other words, what do you want to get out of your strategic planning process? There’s no fixed cadence for strategy conversations. If you are putting together your first strategy or doing a complete overhaul, you’ll need to spend a lot more time on it to get the strategic process set up and the relevant data collected.

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Using OKRs with Scrum and Evidence Based Management

Scrum.org

Embedding OKRs into Scrum's Inspect/Adapt Cadence. When OKRs are embedded into the inspect and adapt process, the Sprint Review provides a unique opportunity to inspect steps toward Objectives by assessing movements in Key Result Areas, i.e., EBM measures such as: Lead time from idea to delivery to market.

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Unpacking Agile Transformation: The System of Delivery

Leading Agile

The idea is that you teach folks how the process is supposed to work, and they will inspect and adapt and remove impediments along the way. The net effect is that we bastardize the process to accommodate the disfunction. It’s the process and governance mechanisms we use to manage the flow of work through the system.

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What is Lean Portfolio Management? Primary Focus | Objectives

Agilemania

Strengthening the output – one of the ways one can maximize the output is, by managing the backlog of investment and finding the opportunities from that and also by managing the WIP across the multiple teams to speed up the delivery process. Participatory Budgeting. A PB budget is typically adjusted twice a year.

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