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Die digitale Transformation navigieren: IBM Engineering Integration Hub als Katalysator für datengesteuerten Erfolg

Auf dem Weg zu einer erfolgreichen digitalen Transformation stehen viele Unternehmen vor Herausforderungen, die sich aus fragmentierten Datenbeständen und der Implementierung mehrerer Aufzeichnungssysteme ergeben, um den sich wandelnden Geschäftsanforderungen gerecht zu werden. Erfahren Sie, warum ein digitales Toolchain-Integrationszentrum so wichtig ist und untersuchen Sie zwei gängige Integrationsszenarien.

The Four Types of Integration for Software Delivery: Pros and Cons 

If you’re looking to improve efficiency in your software delivery organization, a good first step is to integrate your toolchain and automate workflows.   The software delivery life cycle is complex and involves many specialists who each require specialized tools. Integration allows information to flow seamlessly from tool to tool, knitting your software delivery toolchain into...

OKRs Examples for Software Companies

Introduction Objective and Key Results (OKRs) were first implemented by Andy Grove at Intel in the 1970s. John Doerr, who had worked at Intel, brought OKRs to Google in 1999, where they helped fuel massive growth and raise employee morale. Since then, OKRs have become the choice goal-setting method for digital natives and traditional businesses...

Testing to Improve Flow Means Happier Teams

There are many ways to assess the perceived viability or potential effectiveness of a proposed experiment. Teams can determine the options to improve flow, but it may not be clear what aspects of their work to address. While it’s best to start and get feedback as quickly as possible, a lightweight test may shine a...

The Benefits of Tasktop’s Affinity Modeling

Integration is all about getting data to where it needs to be — creating a copy of a specific set of information from one location to another — and then keeping those two copies in sync.  In software delivery tools, the data of interest exists as objects termed “artifacts”, which are work items like features,...

3 Most Common Excuses for Ignoring User Feedback in Federal Software Development

Organizations that can tap into the power of user feedback have seen enormous improvements in ROI over the past decades. It started with Agile via iterative deliveries of user value on a set cadence, usually every two to three weeks. As top-performers (those that understood and embraced Agile fundamentals) began to separate from their competitors,...

A Day in the Life of… a Senior Software Engineer and Team Lead

Meet Jordi Böhme! He’s one of our Senior Software Engineers and Team Leads who works remotely in Germany. We spoke to him about working in a different timezone and the first time he ever saw a skunk.  How do you start your day before work? Probably very different from most other Tasktopians; I’m a remote...

Log4j 2 – The Ghost in the logging framework

It was exactly one day after my vacation. Starting to get back into the groove, I had a quick chat with my fellow engineer Holger (Staudacher). He casually mentioned that he found a really confusing test failure the other day that we should pair up on. Ready to start digging into some code again, he...