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Everything You Need to Know About Release Managers

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It wasn’t until I worked in IT as a project manager that I had a lot of contact with the release management process. 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.

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Review People Over Process

Henny Portman

Levine wrote with People Over Process – Leadership for Agility a very pragmatic and down to earth book about leadership and agile projects. Furthermore, neither agile or scrum contemplates how the agile team should be connected to a larger organization and to external partners who will likely have differing development processes and cadences.

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Unlocking the Power and Mastery of Development Approach and Life Cycle

Project Pulse Journal

This domain, as established by the Project Management Institute in the PMBOK 7th edition, addresses the underlying apprehension many face: the potential overcomplication of project management processes. Your pursuit of streamlining and enhancing project management processes led you to a pivotal crossroads.

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An Agile Scrum Process Diagram for Strategic PM

The Strategic Project Manager

This post outlines the essentials of the agile scrum process. It then delves a little deeper into the most important element of the process – the sprint. It then looks at implications of the agile scrum process for project management and strategy. A Basic Agile Scrum Process Diagram. Sprints and the Team.

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

Leading Agile

We need to obtain buy-in, address ambiguity, and navigate the process. Additionally, we may encounter challenges with packaged software that make the transformation harder. Dealing with Packaged Software The first one, it came up, right? Different change cadences. Share your thoughts. Type of tightly coupled integrations.

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How Agile Testing Can Improve Business Outcomes

Leading Agile

And whether you are producing software or some other product, the process can be applied to many different contexts. Agile Transformation can go beyond software development and improve any organization’s operations to achieve its desired business outcomes. The Process of Producing Working, Tested Product.

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Agile Scrum Roles, Ceremonies, Strategy and Projects

The Strategic Project Manager

The concepts of scrum are powerful in business, not only in software development but also in other areas. This post reviews the basics of agile scrum roles, ceremonies, and their impact on developing strategy and managing projects. Sprint – This is a time box defined for regular and consistent work cadence and delivery.

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