The Time Is Now: new report highlights how Value Stream Management tools can “inform product plans and priorities and point to ways to further optimize software delivery and quality”

“Value stream management provides greater transparency, measurement, and control of the software delivery pipeline.” – Elevate Agile-Plus-DevOps with Value Stream Management, Forrester Research, Inc., April 20, 2018 A new report from Forrester Research, Inc.– Elevate Agile-Plus-DevOps with Value Stream Management by Christopher Condo and Diego LoGiudice – has concluded that the “time is right” for Value...

Continuous Architecture: Architect Products and Focus on Quality Attributes

As an enterprise architect, what does business agility mean to you? Does it mean faster solution delivery? The ability to react quickly to unforeseen events? Perhaps agility means you can re-configure a business capability to meet business needs? Or maybe you are adopting an agile methodology, like SaFE? Answer: It’s probably a mix or all...

Surfacing Abstractions in Code Reviews

Code review tools such as GitHub PRs and Gerrit do a a great job of enabling developers to collaborate, but their file- and line-oriented approach leaves abstractions out of the picture. Developers must have the capacity to see the abstractions by reading the code, or risk having code reviews devolve into a critique of syntax,...

Symptoms of the Zombie PMO

Warning: The following is an emergency alert. There is an outbreak infecting businesses across the world, creating a condition termed the “Zombie PMO.” The name, coined from behaviors such as a languished state of existence and a narrow focus on projects, points to the reality that many PMOs are failing to be flexible and adaptable—two...

Transportation’s digital transformation

Transportation operators have taken a huge leap in the last decade since data connectivity has become available everywhere. Their digital transformation is awe-inspiring. A fascinating episode of NPR’s Planet Money podcast described UPS’s transformation from a package delivery company to a technology company. The signature brown trucks have become rolling computers full of sensors. Every...

Assess the Current State of Your Organization

For part three of this blog series based on the Ventana Research whitepaper, “Five Ways to Increase Efficiency and Innovate Faster,” I will discuss a three simple ways to assess the current state of your organization and begin thinking about how to adopt more modern ways of working. Before we get started, be sure and...

Regain Focus with Kanban

How often do you find yourself at work flipping between tabs, unable to complete a thought before moving onto something else? You go from answering an email to checking a Facebook notification to reading some LinkedIn article, and then – what was I doing? Oh yeah, answering that email. It’s the digital equivalent of walking...

What’s New in Tasktop Integration Hub 18.2

Tasktop Integration Hub 18.2 is available today, introducing a brand new metrics dashboard, support for ALM project domain changes, support for additional operational databases, and increased versatility in container support (hierarchical structures). See What’s Flowing with the New Integration Metrics Dashboard Tasktop has a brand new dashboard where you can see the volumes of artifacts...

Supporting Product Strategy to Execution Leveraging The Pragmatic Marketing Framework

As product developers and marketers, it sometimes feels as if we’re lost in the woods without a compass, constantly changing course as we respond to requests for the latest product updates, fielding sales requests, or scheduling yet another status meeting. With so many voices across your business, it’s difficult to establish your bearings and move...

Ignite Spotlight: An Interview with Southern Company’s Julie Pigott

As one of the top 10 utility companies in the world, Southern Company is a shining example of how to leverage an employee-base to transform the way a business operates. The question is, how did they do it and what can you learn that can be applied in your organization? To dig deeper into the...