Your path to business agility
Patrick is Senior Content Manager at Tasktop and oversees the company's content and thought leadership programs. Outside the office, you’ll find him reading, writing, slapping some bass (poorly), rambling in nature and following his English football (soccer) team, West Ham United.
Last month, we were very fortunate to have André Meyer come into Tasktop to give a presentation on fostering software developer productivity. For many years André has been working with a research team with one of our company co-founders, Gail Murphy, to address the ongoing supply and demand shortage in software delivery. As “software continues to...
Please note: the author of this blog and star of the video, Adam, is a fictional character based on the real experiences of CIOs and IT organizations that Tasktop has spoken to and/or worked with. If you’re an under-pressure CIO who is struggling to transform their IT organization despite your best efforts, you’ve come to...
Earlier this year, Tasktop analyzed 300 value stream diagrams of the largest U.S. enterprises across major industries such as financial services and healthcare to better understand how organizations are delivering software at scale. We wanted to know exactly how global leaders were successfully combating the threat posed by digital-savvy businesses to continue to be innovative...
The mad rush to deliver software faster is a major threat for an organization’s quality control and brand integrity. QA and test teams are under pressure like never before to ensure that software products are always functional, reliable and delivering value to end users. If it goes wrong, you can bet your bottom dollar that...
This week at DOES London 2018, we spoke about looking “Beyond CI/CD” to take greater control of your DevOps transformation to accelerate your enterprise software delivery. By implementing both Release Automation and Value Stream Integration, organizations, agencies and institutions obtain a potent force that enables them to connect, visualize, measure and optimize how they plan,...
Ask any CIO, quality assurance in enterprise software delivery is tricky business. After all, unlike the production of physical products, software is created via invisible knowledge work – work that travels through a complex network of activity between conception and delivery. It’s hard to comprehend something you can’t see, let alone test it. As knowledge work,...
We’ve all seen those projects that start with fast builds. Fast builds that build everything and run all of the tests are a great way to get feedback on your code review, whether it be Travis commenting on your GitHub Pull Request or Jenkins voting on your Gerrit code review. It’s almost inevitable that successful...
The importance of developer-tester collaboration is one of the most common integration patterns for a reason. It makes sense that you’d want the specialists who write the code to work in harmony with the specialists who test the code to optimize the defect reporting and resolution process by: reducing defects improving Mean Time To Resolution...
The majority of organizations must contend with the daily challenge of managing a complicated suite of automated and manual tests. They know that both forms of software testing offer their own advantages and disadvantages, and that by integrating the two – through tools such as Tricentis Tosca and Micro Focus ALM (formerly HPE ALM) –...
We recently analyzed the value streams of 300+ leading U.S. enterprises across multiple industries to better understand how organizations are using Value Stream Integration to improve their software delivery process. The research unearthed a number of fascinating insights, including the fact that 66 percent of enterprises are using 4-8 integration patterns, with the tester-developer alignment...
