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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. Once everything looks good from a technical standpoint, the release manager could start working on preparing communications about the upcoming software change. And then the cycle begins again!

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Are These DevOps Obstacles Getting in the Way of Your Agile Transformation?

Leading Agile

But as companies scale, as the market shifts and more parts of the business become software-focused, there’s been an increase in demand for an end-to-end solution to help large organizations build infrastructure around sound technical practices. I’m Matt VanVleet, the Chief Technology Officer for Leading Agile. So get numbers.

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Sprint Anti-Patterns

Scrum.org

Every activity required to achieve the Product Goal, such as Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective, occurs within Sprints. It is all about getting things out of the door, thus closing the feedback loop and starting another round of inspection and adaption.

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Comparing Nexus and SAFe - Similarities, Differences, potential synergies

Scrum.org

Empiricism via working integrated increments every Sprint - System Demo & Nexus Sprint Review meeting a common Definition of “Done”. The Nexus Sprint Review and the System Demo are similar events happening on a similar cadence - every several weeks (Sprint/Iteration). Important Differences. Nexus - ART.

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Improving SAFe Through Professional Scrum

Scrum.org

To use the leadership styles model we discuss in the Leading SAFe class - the starting point is more of an orchestrating and technical expert kind of leadership stance and the goal should be to evolve towards a more serving the team and the process style over time. SAFe has a cadence at the Team and Program levels.

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Case Study: the Business Banking transformation journey at de Volksbank.

Scrum.org

Their work was restricted to: specifying changes requested by the operational teams, assigning them as tasks to technical teams somewhere in the adjacent IT group, chasing progress. The queue of work was huge due to the long waiting times for the work in progress. They were wasting time chasing their changes to be delivered.

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Benefits of Scaled Agile Framework ( SAFe®) – Agilemania

Agilemania

Apply cadence and synchronize with cross-domain planning. Finally, let’s cut the suspense and closely at the common reasons to use SAFe. In the Scaled Agile Framework, every team member works diligently. Marketing teams on the other hand have to work diligently to deliver promised results to the clients.