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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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Improve Product Management to drive Business Agility

Scrum.org

Due to their limited scope of ownership (tasks or features) and span of control (single team), all they can maximize is the utilization of their team’s capacity. The Agile PM works directly with many teams instead of passing information via business analysts. They study and do the work in a shared cadence (Sprint).

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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. PI Planning serves as the cornerstone of the Agile Release Train within SAFe, establishing a synchronized cadence for multiple teams to work together towards a common goal. It is deliberately incomplete.

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Release planning and predictable delivery

Scrum.org

TL;DR; Without working software, you can’t build trust and you don’t know when you will get the next piece of working software. Once you accept this, and quality becomes non-negotiable, your Dev e lopers can focus on creating usable increments of working software. Professional Developers create working software.

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Questions to ask a project management mentor

Rebel’s Guide to PM

How should we review progress? At regular meetings You’ll find a regular cadence and probably settle into a regular agenda or routine with the check in sessions. Understanding the workplace culture and the dynamics of soft power within the organization can hugely increase your influence, so use your mentor for the insider information!

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Troubleshooting in Lean-Agile Development

MPUG

At this stage, I want to inform that problems and subsequent troubleshooting challenges the occur in a Lean-Agile approach can be divided into two broad categories: Iteration-based. 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.

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How Do you Make a Retrospective an Interesting Session?

NimbleWork

The output from the retro informs the next sprint. So we want to include agile retros in the general cadence of the project lifecycle for iterative projects, whether you meet in person or virtually – but that regular cadence brings its own challenges. In-person retros tend to generate notes to type up afterward.

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