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Everything You Need to Know About Release Managers

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The release manager at my last job worked closely with the development team to review what code changes would be coming. Once everything looks good from a technical standpoint, the release manager could start working on preparing communications about the upcoming software change. And then the cycle begins again!

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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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Review: Introduction to Disciplined Agile Delivery

Henny Portman

Complete: DAD includes advice how development, modeling, documentation, and governance strategies fit together. Every day there will be a coordination meeting and the iteration ends with the iteration review/demo and the retrospective. The core of the book is a case study. Every iteration starts with an iteration planning cycle.

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“Agile Is Just for Software” and other Scrum Myths

Scrum.org

For example, Scrum includes five events: the Sprint, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and the Sprint Retrospective. 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!”. It is deliberately incomplete.

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Half Agile Isn’t Real Transformation

Leading Agile

Tech Infrastructure != Many organizations divide their technology stack between front-end and back-end systems and place an API boundary between the two. I’m including all IT resources “in front of” the API layer in the organization’s technical infrastructure. Value Stream. Half-Agile Transformations.

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Troubleshooting in Lean-Agile Development

MPUG

It’s usually based on a cadence. As shown in the above figure, there is no regular timeboxed iteration, but incremental delivery can happen in cadence. When you fire a gun in the dark, it’s difficult to aim due to the lack of light. Developers, with all due respect to them, are generally optimistic people.

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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

You’ll want to document a terms of reference for your governance committees so they know what they are supposed to do. It’s fine to have a different cadence at different points in the project lifecycle. Action review and next steps. Many, many projects only have one level of governance and call it the steering group.