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Everything You Need to Know About Release Managers

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The release manager at my last job worked closely with the development team to review what code changes would be coming. On launch day itself, the release manager will be closely monitoring things behind-the-scenes to ensure that tech implementation goes smoothly. So what does a typical day in the life of a release manager look like?

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The Importance of Connecting Agile to Business Value

Leading Agile

By framing Agile to align with their priorities, you can help close this gap in confidence, minimize the cognitive dissonance your executives might feel, and help them see how agile can help them achieve their strategic business goals. However, this is where your role becomes crucial.

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The Kanban Practice That Equips Teams For Self-Management

Scrum.org

This could include the provision of meetings with the right attendees at a regular cadence such as team retrospectives, service delivery reviews and operations reviews. Monitor Application Making policies explicit is not useful if they are not followed, so efforts should be made to understand how closely policies are being adhered to.

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Your Strategy Planning Meeting Agenda (with Template)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

There’s no fixed cadence for strategy conversations. 5pm: Wrap up and close. Finally, wrap up the meeting, draw it to a close and if you are going to meet again, put the date in the diary. What goes into your meeting (and therefore, your agenda) will very much depend on where you are in the strategy planning cycle.

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Employee Engagement and Professional Scrum - Part 1 of 5

Scrum.org

Ping pong tables, free beer and even “unlimited” vacation policies may help with recruitment in some cases, but these kinds of perks have close to zero impact on overall engagement. While this is not a new concept, many companies miss the mark in their efforts to help keep their employees engaged with the work they are doing.

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Improve Product Management to drive Business Agility

Scrum.org

The Product Manager can close the Product Gap In case you missed it, the latest hype in the agile space is about “Product”. We should focus on closing the product gap by elevating both the PM role and the teams. (We To close the product gap, we need to connect the PM directly to the teams.

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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

And will make the decision to close the project down early if it can no longer meet its objectives. It’s fine to have a different cadence at different points in the project lifecycle. Make sure you have the latest info on project budgets and how close the project is to meeting its goals. When to hold the meetings.