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Job of Agile Release Train Engineer and Status Reporting

The Strategic Project Manager

This post examines the overall responsibilities of the Release Training Engineer (RTE) within the SAFe methodology. It then looks at the intersection of RTE responsibilities with the strategy and project management functions – and shows how broad of a role RTE can be.

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Embracing a Systems Engineering Approach to Agile at Scale

Leading Agile

What if, instead of focusing on all the Agile practices, we started applying some of the things we know about systems engineering to help large companies become the kind of organization that can leverage those practices? What does the supply chain for software at scale look like? And how do Agile practices enable that system?

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Kanban vs. Scrum: What’s the Difference?

ProjectManager.com

The scrum methodology has been around since the mid-1980s and has been a core sub-methodology of agile since 2001 when Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle wrote the book on it: Agile Software Development with Scrum. That hasn’t stopped practitioners from using scrum in varying industries, from retail logistics to event planning.

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Can you be agile if you release only once a year?

Scrum.org

( Japanese version・日本語版 ) When picturing an effective and truly agile product development team, one often imagines a software development team, pushing some software to production every day, maybe multiple times a day, ala Amazon. Here are two strategies and a handful of tactics to help you achieve that.

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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

ProjectManager.com

We’ll go through some of the most popular project management methodologies, which are applied in many sectors such as software development, R&D and product development. When to Use It: The practice originated in software development and works well in that culture. Top 10 Project Management Methodologies.

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How Wrike’s Engineers Developed a Unique Quality Control System

Wrike

I joined the team as a QAA engineer in 2010, the first employee in this role. Over the past 12 or so years, we have built a super team of brilliant QAA engineers. Brailsford believed that if the strategy could work, the team would win the Tour de France in five years. Hello, everyone! A year later, in 2013, they succeeded again.

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PM, Strategy, and Key Resources – Business Model Canvas

The Strategic Project Manager

This post provides an overview of the Key Resources block on the business model canvas, provides related considerations for organizational strategy, and outlines the impact on project management. These can also include software systems, such as for customer relationship management (CRM), resource management systems, financial software, etc.