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Notes on running projects, migrating systems to the cloud, and building dashboards people actually open. No fluff.
Board setup, backlog refinement, ceremony templates. Why the investment before delivery starts compounds across every sprint that follows.
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What I confirm before, during, and after cutover weekend, from data validation to the rollback plan nobody wants to need.
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Manage closely, keep satisfied, keep informed, monitor, a simple grid that prevents most stakeholder fires before they start.
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A beta the week before launch is theatre. What changed when I moved ours five sprints earlier, and what it caught that QA missed.
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RAG statuses, one chart per question, and why a dashboard nobody checks is worse than no dashboard at all.
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They get confused constantly because the acronyms rhyme. One is about ownership, the other is about risk. Here's how I use both without overlap.
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