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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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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. Everything from testing, monitoring, and containerization to vendors and the skills of the IT people on your team. Different change cadences.

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Estimate at Completion: A Complete Guide + Template

Rebel’s Guide to PM

PMI’s Standard for Earned Value is a good starting point for practitioners wanting to learn more about this way of monitoring and controlling project performance. Either way, report EAC monthly or to your normal project management reporting cadence, so you can spot trends and identify issues before they become too significant.

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The Ultimate Goal Tracker: How to Monitor Your Marketing Objectives Effectively

Wrike

It’s crucial for businesses to monitor their marketing objectives effectively. We will explore the importance of goal tracking in marketing, how to set up your marketing objectives, choose the right goal tracking tools, implement your goal tracker, and effectively monitor and adjust your marketing objectives.

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How to Set and Achieve Effective Sprint Goals

Scrum.org

Thanks to our reviewers: Ralph Jocham | Scrum.org TLDR; The Sprint Goal is the heart of Scrum, representing the team's commitment to the value derived from the Sprint's outcome. The Sprint goal should be something stakeholders can review and provide feedback on. Create a Cadence of Accountability. When are Sprint Goals crafted?

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Agile Still Works

Scrum.org

In an effort to curb productivity leakage, some managers are turning to software to monitor their people. The NY Times ran a piece which suggested that demand for online monitoring tools have surged. People and Interactions over tools and software. How should we collaborate to review the outcome of our work?

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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It’s fine to have a different cadence at different points in the project lifecycle. If you are expecting the project oversight committee to make a decision at the meeting, make sure that they have information in advance of your meeting so that they can review the different options. Action review and next steps. Key decisions.