Your path to business agility
The following defect is to some extent typical of those encountered by connector developers1 at Tasktop, inasmuch as there exists a typical defect. The ‘to some extent’ qualifier is there as most defects are either too straightforward to write a blog about, or conversely too complex and/or delve too deeply into our code internals to...
The beginning of my experience as a Junior Software Engineer on one of Tasktop’s ‘Integrations Teams’ marked a definitive transition in the way I learned and practiced computer science and software development. With just a year at UBC’s Computer Science program and a couple of personal projects under my belt, I was initially uncertain of...
We have a long drive ahead, 12 hours in fact, and it will only take us a short way along the Eastern coastline of Australia. Having just arrived back from Tasktop HQ in Vancouver, BC where we have been discussing the Flow Framework™, I’m excited to tell my passengers (my wife and family) about the...
Tasktop at Agile Israel 2019 Tasktop is thrilled to be a sponsor of Agile Israel 2019, Israel’s main conference for Agile and DevOps, which takes place next week (May 21, 2019) at the Lago Event Hall in Israel. Be sure to stop by the Tasktop booth to learn more about the power of Value Stream...
Ask any avid cyclist about the importance of their wheels. If their bike is highly customized, ask them if they consider the number of spokes, lacing pattern, or manufacturer of the hub and rim that make up their wheel. If the cyclist is a world-class professional, ask the same question to their Tour Manager. The...
Agile transformations are complicated endeavors, especially for large enterprises trying to keep pace with today’s fluid digital marketplace. Add the additional difficulties of having to orient delivery teams around products and bridging entrenched organizational silos – well that is quite a challenge that requires uplift across multiple dimensions. Many teams have begun their transformational journeys...
In case you missed our previous post on the subject, here’s a quick summary of what you need to know about the upcoming change to Atlassian Jira Cloud’s APIs to avoid disruption to your software delivery value stream. 1. Atlassian’s new approach to user identification is driven by the GDPR The changes to Atlassian Cloud...
It was October, and we’d just wrapped up another release of our product. Whenever a release goes out the door, our Product team works to make sure that our Account Managers understand which of their customers’ requests made it into the product, enabling them to close the loop and notify their customers of the great...
My review of the Project to Product book continues from Value Stream Metrics, with a tour of the Value Stream Network based on a study of no less than 308 toolchains and three more epiphanies. To avoid the spoiler, you will have to read the book for the context and the profound impact of the latter :-). The last part...
The review of Project to Product continues from Value Stream Management with the Flow Framework™, with a focus on Value Stream Metrics to track the flow of business value in our software development lifecycle. The Flow Framework™ is a new framework created by Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop. It helps us bridge business and engineering with a common...
