Your path to business agility
After seeing first-hand how disparate tool suites can hinder an organization, Jeff joined Tasktop to help fulfill the company’s mission of connecting the world of software delivery. At Tasktop, Jeff works as a Principal Pre-sales Engineer to help companies in a wide variety of industries make better use of software development and delivery tools and enable collaboration across the software lifecycle—through the power of integration. Jeff also has more than ten years of hands-on testing and test tool experience at LexisNexis, where he led the transformation of their Test Center of Excellence. As a tool administrator, Jeff drove the effort to improve efficiency and capability through tool best practices, integration, and administration. Contact Jeff on Twitter @jdowns26.
Turning software delivery data into IT and business intelligence is nothing new; it’s the 21st-century gold rush. Yet getting to this level of maturity is a herculean undertaking, especially for IT organizations looking to obtain accurate cross-tool reporting that provides them with business-critical insights into their software delivery. For many, obtaining the one source of...
“Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets” – W. Edwards Deming Technology in business allows organizations to improve both the performance and overall effectiveness of products, systems and services, which, in turn, enables businesses to meet anticipated goals more quickly and efficiently. Tech, coupled with the right minds and culture, is also the linchpin of innovation, enabling traditional...
At DOES London 2018 in June, we were delighted to see that IT organizations around the world are increasingly focusing on how work flows from ideation to production across their software delivery value streams to build better products faster. It is now abundantly clear that enterprises must think “end-to-end” and connect all the specialist teams...
If you’re an HPE ALM/QC or HPE Octane user you’ll know that to get true traceability and reporting you need to integrate it with other tools used by software development teams, and there are a variety of ways you can do that. There’s now a new offering available to you – HPE ALM Octane I/O...
June is right around the corner and for Tasktop that means HPE Discover! Over the past 5 years, the Pre-Sales Engineering team at Tasktop has created hundreds of Software Lifecycle Architecture Diagrams for our prospects and customers. Using a custom template, we’re able to facilitate collaborative conversations around the challenges our automotive, banking, insurance, retail, etc....
Like many of you, a number of our customers are undergoing DevOps transformations in order to decrease the time it takes for them to deliver value to their customers. While it seems like everyone is “doing DevOps” these days, there’s not really a standard definition of what that means. At Tasktop, we take the big...
A common challenge we come across is that while you may want to send all data from your DevOps or Event-based tools to a database for analysis, you don’t want to have all of those same events synchronized across your software lifecycle tools. Selectively syncing the events within your DevOps tools allows you to have...
This Thursday, I have the opportunity to present at IBM Interconnect. Along with the opportunity to present comes the “opportunity” to staff the Tasktop booth all week (Booth #784 in the DevOps Zone). I decided to do something different this year… Over the past 5 years, the Pre-Sales Engineering team at Tasktop has created 100s...
As people entered the Fawcett Center on campus of The Ohio State University for the inaugural Lean Into Agile conference, a wall-sized picture of legendary Buckeye football coach Woody Hayes greeted us. The quote, left, could not have been better foreshadowing for the theme of the day. Michael Sahota used his opening keynote to break...
