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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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The Forgotten Scrum Event

Scrum.org

And yet, the Sprint serves a pivotal role in Scrum by setting the cadence for feedback, inspection and adaptation in Scrum. However, it's crucial to recognize that the Sprint sets the cadence for all of the other events. In fact, many people don’t even realize that it is an event in Scrum. There’s no meeting for “The Sprint”, you see.

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Review People Over Process

Henny Portman

Levine wrote with People Over Process – Leadership for Agility a very pragmatic and down to earth book about leadership and agile projects. Furthermore, neither agile or scrum contemplates how the agile team should be connected to a larger organization and to external partners who will likely have differing development processes and cadences.

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Navigating the Scrum Events - The Sprint

Scrum.org

If your team is able to create a usable increment in a shorter time-box than 1 month, consider shortening your Sprint cadence. The Definition of Done is the commitment of quality for each Increment, and an important piece of the transparency of Scrum.

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The Three — Wait: Four — Elements of Empiricism

Scrum.org

Retrospective : Inspects the Sprint at the team level, the Definition of Done, and creates improvements. The emergent process and work must be visible to those performing the work as well as those receiving the work. Provide access to artifacts from your Product Backlog to the Definition of Done. Inspection. Adaptation. “If

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Stakeholder Communication Strategy: Part 3 of 4 Steps of Stakeholder Engagement

Scrum.org

The success of building effective stakeholder communication strategy depends upon the outputs of the first two steps of the stakeholder engagement process i.e. Stakeholder Exploration and Stakeholder Analysis & Mapping. Are they part of our Definition of ‘Done’? A regular cadence of 1:1 meetings will be needed.

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How Agile Testing Can Improve Business Outcomes

Leading Agile

And whether you are producing software or some other product, the process can be applied to many different contexts. The Process of Producing Working, Tested Product. They are the ones that must define clear acceptance criteria and definition of done. Getting to a Definition of Done. Avoid Pushing Work to the Next Sprint.

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