diff --git a/docs/make-release.md b/docs/make-release.md
index 0b36ebbf9..449bd2c92 100644
--- a/docs/make-release.md
+++ b/docs/make-release.md
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 # How to make a new release
 
 You will need `poetry` installed on your system.  After that, run
-`poetry install` to update your poetry setup to have the necessary
-requirements to produce a new release.
+`poetry install` in the DRE repo folder to update your poetry setup
+to have the necessary requirements to produce a new release.
 
 Go to the repo root, and check that you don't have any dirty changes and that you are on the main branch.
 
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ Next, create and push the git tag to the repo, to trigger the release CI workflo
 git checkout main
 git pull
 git status
-./bin/mk-release.py --tag 0.5.0
+poetry run bin/mk-release.py --tag 0.5.0
 ```
 
 Wait for the triggered [GH action to finish](https://github.com/dfinity/dre/actions). It will take some time because it's building binaries for x86 and for darwin.