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Everything You Need to Know About Release Managers

Rebel’s Guide to PM

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. The role of a release manager is crucial in ensuring that software projects are completed on time and within budget.

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Adopting Agile Practices Isn’t Agile Transformation

Leading Agile

Third, how are we reproducing working tests in software? 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. First, how are we forming teams?

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Disciplined Agile & SAFe

International Institute for Learning

DA was developed in 2011 by Scott Ambler and Mark Lines and is based on Scott’s work at Rational Software and IBM. To coordinate the teams, SAFe applies cadence and synchronization. Cadence means all teams are aligned to a standard, two-week delivery cycle. They emerged about a decade after the Agile Manifesto.

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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. Action review and next steps. When to hold the meetings. Key decisions. Highlight anything that has changed since last time.

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Creating a Risk-Adjusted Backlog

Leading Answers

That could take two weeks and cost $100,000 when factoring in the new software license, the team's burn rate, and the cost of delay to the organization. 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

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How to Make Your Project Schedule Work for You

LiquidPlanner

At a recent conference, I was asked, “Why do project managers hate schedules?”. Establish a weekly review of schedule performance to ensure that everyone understands upcoming tasks, and can provide updates to in-progress and behind schedule tasks. Set the expectation that task status is due at a specific time each week.

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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. We review our work with the Head of Marketing on twice-a-week basis.