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Everything You Need to Know About Release Managers

Rebel’s Guide to PM

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. In doing so, they help protect the stability and reputation of the software development team. Scheduling.

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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. Over time, these theories were transformed into practices, taught, and certified.

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Kanban to manage Complex/ Quick Moving Situations

Digite

I have often wondered – doesn’t speak too well of us as software professionals! Far too many projects and teams are occupied by far too many crises all through the development/ implementation lifecycle. However, the fact is that software development is a complex activity – perhaps more so than any other type of projects?

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Using Kanban in Marketing

Digite

However, I had not seen Kanban being applied to software development, project management, etc. Around the same time, I was fortunate enough get to attend the Lean Kanban India 2016 conference (LKIN) and listening to David J Anderson and other thought-leaders. Our Cadences. That is when I heard the name of “Kanban”.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Here's a collection of presentations, briefings, papers, essays, book content used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've written and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems and other domains. Agile Software Development (#ASD). Table of Contents (Click the Name to go to Section).

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Team using “Waiting for Release” column on their kanban board

Digite

We do product releases every 4-6 weeks, and these get deloyed to our SaaS servers – that cadence is well established. Some other factors affect this, especially key marketing events such as key conference or a customer meet, etc. It is really based on their own cost of deploying a new release from a vendor.

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Kanban = Continuous Delivery? Not Necessarily

Digite

We do product releases every 4-6 weeks, and these get deployed to our SaaS servers – that cadence is well established. Some other factors affect this, especially key marketing events such as a key conference or a customer meet, etc. It is really based on their own cost of deploying a new release from a vendor.