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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 addition, they also create and maintain documentation for each cycle, in the release repository.

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Questions to ask a project management mentor

Rebel’s Guide to PM

At regular meetings You’ll find a regular cadence and probably settle into a regular agenda or routine with the check in sessions. Having read the policy/process document/standard operating procedure on Y, I have a few questions. Here are some sample questions you can use to keep the conversation moving. Can we go through the list?

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How Usable Working Products Are Your Ultimate Weapon Against Risks

Scrum.org

A fortress of documentation can’t protect you from the market’s ever-changing demands. The naysayers will say, "What about documentation? Of course, documentation is vital, but let’s not build the Great Wall of China with it! Use documentation as part of your strategy but just enough to get buy.

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Unlocking the Power and Mastery of Development Approach and Life Cycle

Project Pulse Journal

This domain facilitates strategic alignment, optimized delivery cadence, methodology customization, increased flexibility, and improved risk management. The desire for a project management framework that sustains deliverability, supports the required cadence, and remains faithful to an adaptable methodology is now within reach.

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Project Communication Management: What is it all about?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This step is all about action – issuing meeting minutes, providing reports, and documenting proposed changes as agreed. Key decisions documentation – provides a mechanism for documenting and distributing key decisions with the project team for future reference.

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Project Decision-Making

Velociteach

Hierarchy and control can be formally documented through the organization’s policies, or unstated rules and practices. Have a Process A straightforward, documented process creates transparency and promotes confidence that decisions are made fairly. How is the information documented and communicated to the decision-makers?

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“Agile Is Just for Software” and other Scrum Myths

Scrum.org

Whenever I hear someone say that Scrum teams must use user stories to document items in their Product Backlog or that Scrum teams must use points to size their work, I say “no!”. In reality, the Product Backlog is a dynamic document that evolves over time. Let the team decide what works best for them. That is the power of Scrum.

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