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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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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. DA defines “process blades” to describe common enterprise capabilities. Disciplined DevOps is the set of process blades enabling the continuous delivery of working software.

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Creating a Risk-Adjusted Backlog

Leading Answers

Then, in 2012 I presented a collection of Collaborative Games for Risk Management  at the Agile 2012 Conference in Dallas and PMI Global Congress in Vancouver. After  After these conferences, people started experimenting with these techniques and sharing their experiences. These charts use the same idea.

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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. You might want to have a conference call line open so that people who aren’t present can join the meeting on the phone. The people on the project board need to be relatively senior people, with the authority to make decisions and allocate resources.

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Building Trust via Trustworthiness

Leading Agile

I walked into the conference room to meet with the VP of enterprise Agile Transformation. Instead of firing us, six months after I walked into that conference room, the VP hired 5 additional coaches to stand up more Agile portfolios! . Teams don’t keep a regular cadence of collaboration and review.

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Adopting Agile Practices Isn’t Agile Transformation

Leading Agile

When people make such statements, they usually mean that they have trained product owners and a proficient Scrum master, and their team consistently follows the cadence of sprint planning, daily stand-ups, interviews, and retrospectives. I question why they would implement a process that doesn’t yield the desired business benefits.

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Mastering the (new) Agile Coaching Mindset for the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR)

International Institute for Learning

Larkland is participating in the panel on Agile at Large Organizations at IIL’s 2022 Agile & Scrum Online Conference. Given the importance of innovation, as Agile Coaches and Change Agents, our mission is to advocate for dedicated cadence and timebox for promoting innovation and a continuous learning culture.