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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. As a release manager, there are three key areas of responsibility: planning, scheduling, and coordination. Scheduling.

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Release planning and predictable delivery

Scrum.org

Many organisations wrestle with the seeming incompatibility between agile and release management, and they struggle with release planning and predictable delivery. 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. Why is software so unpredictable.

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The Difference Between Right Sizing and Same Sizing of Work Items (and Why You Should Care)

Scrum.org

Understanding these terms is crucial for effective backlog management and sprint planning if you're a product manager or product owner. Right-sizing in Agile refers to the practice of customizing the size of work items in your backlog to match their inherent complexity and effort required to the time interval of your cadence.

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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. Myth 1: Program Increment Planning is part of the Scrum framework Program Increment (PI) Planning is not a part of the Scrum framework itself, but rather a key component of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).

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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 Management: Principles, Practices & Context

Velociteach

Everything from putting people back on the moon, developing new therapeutics and software, or planning a wedding. Deming’s plan-do-check-act cycle is a prominent Lean practice. The Agile Manifesto The Agile Manifesto is a set of 4 value statements and 12 principles created for software.

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ESP Compared to Kanban Method

Digite

David Anderson is a thought leader and pioneer in the field of Lean/ Kanban for Software Development and managing effective software teams. View David’s profile ) We are honored to publish this blog post from David where he compared Enterprise Services Planning (ESP) with Kanban. ESP Compared to Kanban Method.

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