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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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“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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Questions to ask a project management mentor

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Whether you’re excited to meet them for the first time, or have had a few calls/sessions already, you are probably wondering if you are using their time effectively and asking the right questions. Use these as a starting point in your meetings with your mentor and see where the conversation takes you. Still looking for a mentor?

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How We Reduced Cycle Time from 164 Days to 8 Days in 6 Months

Scrum.org

Due to horrible time-management on my part, we could not answer all the questions in the webinar, so we are answering them in this blog instead. You might get more value from reading this blog if you watched the recording and reviewed the slides that are available on the webinar page - A Cycle Time Journey: 164 to 8 Days in 6 Months.

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Are These DevOps Obstacles Getting in the Way of Your Agile Transformation?

Leading Agile

As more and more companies scramble to untangle the code of their monolithic legacy software and get it into the cloud, strategic priorities are shifting. Want the Deck Text HIDDEN to 33777 Video Transcript We will run into times where packing software makes it harder for us to transform the skills of our staff and external vendors.

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How Do you Make a Retrospective an Interesting Session?

NimbleWork

A retrospective meeting is an opportunity for the team to reflect on what went well during the sprint (if we’re using Scrum terminology), what could have been done better and to discuss any actions that fall out of that discussion which would improve and iterate for next time. How to Run an Engaging Retrospective?

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Estimate at Completion: A Complete Guide + Template

Rebel’s Guide to PM

You probably won’t be expected to use it without having the back up of decent spreadsheets (I have a basic template I share below, so scroll down for that) and the software to underpin the calculations. You meet with the project team at the halfway point to find out how things are going. How to report EAC. That makes EAC £10,500.

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