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Agile, DevOps, Lean – What’s Your Maturity Level?

At Tasktop, we’re always looking for ways to improve your application delivery efforts. This time we have engaged Forrester Research to create the Modern Application Delivery (MAD) self-assessment tool to evaluate where your organization stands now in Agile, DevOps and Lean initiatives. In just five minutes, the assessment will help you evaluate where your organization...

The Power of Selective Syncing Combined with Software Lifecycle Analytics

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...

Announcing the Tasktop DevOps Integration Hub

Some of the most interesting problems in technology only surface at scale.  For the past few years, the majority of Tasktop’s customers have been using Sync to achieve scaled Agile. Without tool chain integration, it is impossible to get hundreds or thousands of IT staff adopting enterprise Agile methodologies such as SAFe, DAD, Scrum.org’s Nexus...

Scaled Agile, Lean, and the Journey to Scaled DevOps

This week, Tasktop announced its latest innovation in software lifecycle integration. We’ve added a whole new integration capability to our portfolio that enables DevOps practices to scale to the rest of the Connected Software Lifecycle.  What this means to our customers is that they finally have the DevOps Integration Hub needed to scale DevOps transformations...

Software Lifecycle Architecture Diagrams

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...

Synchronizing Your Artifacts Is Good, But Organizing Them Is Better

Imagine this scenario. All the fields from all the artifacts in one system synchronize to your other tool, but you’re responsible for reconstituting each artifact. You have to collect all the comments, statuses and attachments for each Story, Task and Requirement and put them back together. Sounds horrific, right? That’s because the relationship between the...

Golf And Product Management: An Unlikely Parallel?

For 14 years of my life I thought I would pursue a career in professional golf. That was my goal from the time I was 8 years old, so day-in and day-out I focused on that goal with endless hours of practice, physical awareness, health and later, an – NCAA DI scholarship and tournament wins....

The Key To Successful Software Lifecycle Integration Deployments

I experienced my first small earthquake (a 4.7 magnitude on the Richter scale) in Vancouver, over the Christmas holiday. I didn’t even realize it was happening, since I was sleeping.  This got me thinking about planning, not only for my family’s safety, but also in general.  As a developer, planning was key to the Agile...

Tasktop 4.4 Released: Identity and Traceability across the DevOps Pipeline

At last week’s DevOps Enterprise Summit we got to hear how industry leaders are transforming the way that software is built.  Most speakers told stories of automating the build, release or continuous delivery pipeline, and the cultural transformation that followed. One talk stood out from all the others because it described a transformation that went...