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Everything You Need to Know About Release Managers

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The release manager at my last job worked closely with the development team to review what code changes would be coming. On launch day itself, the release manager will be closely monitoring things behind-the-scenes to ensure that tech implementation goes smoothly. So what does a typical day in the life of a release manager look like?

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Recharge to Reach the Finish Line: A Leader’s End-of-Year Strategy

The IIL Blog

This rhythm of exertion and recovery resonates deeply with the cadence of leadership in business. It’s essential to prioritize—identify the key initiatives that will require our focus as the year closes. International Project Management Day Online Conference is available to stream now through February 5th, 2024.

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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

And will make the decision to close the project down early if it can no longer meet its objectives. It’s fine to have a different cadence at different points in the project lifecycle. You might want to have a conference call line open so that people who aren’t present can join the meeting on the phone. When to hold the meetings.

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Disciplined Agile & SAFe

International Institute for Learning

To coordinate the teams, SAFe applies cadence and synchronization. Cadence means all teams are aligned to a standard, two-week delivery cycle. The entire ART operates on a common 2-week cadence and begins its 10-week Program Increment (PI) with a 2-day planning event. They are closed books, online, and self-proctored.

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Cultivating the Kind of Culture Employees Crave

Leading Agile

Our core values, principles, and desired character attributes were cultivated through an innate closed-loop accountability system that had no choice but to exist. The Pods meet on an agreed-upon cadence, and everyone in each Pod knows that they can reach out to other Pod members for questions, help, and a friendly voice.

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Transformation, Business Architecture, and Scaling

Leading Agile

What do you do with planning cadences? And the cool thing about Version One is like, any talk, any conference I can get accepted to, they let me go speak and I was off speaking. You’re the guy that’s close to the ground, you know what kind of house I need, like no, right, you want to know what you’re going to get for your money.

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Episode 189 – Harmonizing Potential – The Jazz of High-Performing Project Teams

Velociteach

A Cadence to Managing Projects BILL YATES: Okay. There’s a cadence. There’s a cadence. They’re going to conferences. Every two weeks you’re delivering something. So things are happening really rapidly, and they can adjust because the customers say, “Hey, I don’t want that. And you have to move and adjust. That’s so good.