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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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Use MVIs for team improvements

Kiron Bondale

Whether a team uses a scheduled cadence for reviewing their WoW such as the use of retrospectives in Scrum, or they use a just-in-time approach they will come up with improvement ideas. Let’s say a software development team recognizes that they need to improve their code quality and to do this there are many options available.

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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 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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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. Where can I find the user guides/crib sheets for the project management software (or any software) so I can use it more effectively?

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Beyond Mechanical Scrum

Scrum.org

The teams at his company had well established cadences for their Scrum events; well-oiled Daily Scrums that are done within 15 minutes and result in transparency of what the team will do for the next 24-hours. They are releasing software after every 2-week sprint. Visualising your work on a physical or electronic board? Kanban 101.