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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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How to Assemble a Project Team

ProjectManager.com

The project manager often manages the project, the team and all the related tasks in a project management software. Ideally, project management software allows for team collaboration as well as planning, so teams can be at there best, like with ProjectManager. Need to know the right person to ask a question?

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Creating a Common Collective for Distributed Teams

The Lazy Project Manager

Conducting meetings and calls on video conferencing software creates more meaningful interactions between coworkers and helps employees focus on the task at hand. Utilize project management software. Project management software can be a lifesaver for teams that are dispersed.

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“Agile Is Just for Software” and other Scrum Myths

Scrum.org

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. Myth 5: Agile Is Just for Software The graph above compares the 2020 and 2021 “State of Agile” reports.

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How We Reduced Cycle Time from 164 Days to 8 Days in 6 Months

Scrum.org

CADENCE & RELIABILITY. CADENCE: What was the sprint cadence you folks started off with? What was sustainable cadence after improvements? The ultimate measure of success is delivering valuable, high quality working software and not maximizing the story points forecast at the end of Sprint Planning.

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Estimate at Completion: A Complete Guide + Template

Rebel’s Guide to PM

You probably won’t be expected to use it without having the back up of decent spreadsheets (I have a basic template I share below, so scroll down for that) and the software to underpin the calculations. As the maths on this one is quite involved, it’s a better option to choose as part of an integrated earned value management system.

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Minimal measures for minimal stability in a complex environment

Scrum.org

Product development is the subset of complex problem domains where Scrum took root first; by explicitly acknowledging software and new product development to be complex work, serving to deliver complex products in complex circumstances. No sustainable agility is achieved. It is why Sprints, as container events, have a fixed time-box.

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