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Everything You Need to Know About Release Managers

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It’s an essential role… because without her, we risked putting any old thing live and ending up with software conflicts and no process to roll back changes if we messed up. In this article, I’ll explain what a release manager does and what skills you need to make a success of this role. Scheduling. Remote work options galore!

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Software Project Management: Why It’s Different

ProjectManager.com

Every project is different, of course, but the differences when managing software development projects are especially so, due to its distinct life-cycle processes. What Is Software Project Management? Software project management is the planning, managing and tracking of software development projects.

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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

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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 agile is your team (and what you can do about it!)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is a guest article by David Daly. I regularly see that software teams are expected to deliver new features faster, become more productive, and create amazing, intuitive and easy to use applications that are bug-free. Read next: Understanding Agile This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management.

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How to Overcome 12 Common Requirements Mistakes

Project Risk Coach

Read my article: Why Project Managers Need Business Analysts. One of the greatest sins of software development is allowing users to specify things that will never be used (or rarely be used). Failure to assign a business analyst (BA) to the team. Requirement. Requirements that will never be used.

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How to Manage Project Scope Without Scope Creep (with examples)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

One of the reasons for that is scope creep – and that’s what this article is all about. Scope creep is the more common term but you might hear both, especially if you are working in software development. Example of scope creep in software development. What is scope creep? What causes scope creep?

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Why is it a project manager’s job to fix companies?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

If I’m in software development, it’s how quickly I can deliver the next release and what new functionality I can put in it. A version of this article first appeared in 2012. This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management.

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