The New School of Information Security: Lean Perspectives

Hello, my name is Tyler Welton. I am a Security Engineer at Planview AgilePlace and I love it. I spend a large portion of my time fulfilling both defensive and offensive security duties for our web application, infrastructure and security culture. Information security is hard. Providing good security is even harder. Agile development methodology and...

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...

Project Portfolio in Action – Q & A with Lewis Fowler

Recently we had the chance to get some insight from the field in a discussion with our partner at Lewis Fowler and a great chance to speak with Amy Fowler Stadler, principal at Lewis Fowler. In our recent partner webinar, Project Portfolio Management in Action, Lewis Fowler covered common use cases for PPM including resource time...

Kanban Essentials for IT Ops

Is your team under constant pressure to meet delivery dates and increase efficiency? Watch this webinar to find out how Kanban can help you get a handle on your volume of work by unhiding it and improving your flow. About this Webinar In this webinar, Brendan Wovchko of HUGE I/O explains how Kanban gives you...

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 Development Productivity From The Perspective Of Developers

If Isaac Newton were alive today, we might have the Newtonian laws of software development: For every increase in our ability to construct complex software, there shall be an equal increase in the demand for even more complex software. One solution to keeping up with this increased demand might be to apply artificial intelligence techniques...

Getting Started with Project Scoring

Scoring projects is an easy way to identify high value projects and push them to the front of the line, keeping your organization working on the highest priority initiatives at all times. But you might be surprised at how little of organizations are actually doing it in practice. In our latest Project and Portfolio Management...

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...

Win the Race: Deliver the Greatest Impact with Continuous Planning [Video]

Let’s face it, the annual plan is a lot like making a New Year’s resolution to exercise more – It’s a great idea but not always realistic. Just like in business, you may establish a plan to run a marathon. Throughout your training, things happen. You miss training workouts, priorities with family, and other obligations...

7 Views of Project-Portfolio Variance

Knowing the current cost and estimated value of every initiative in your portfolio is nice, but when executives meet for a review, what they really want to know is: What’s changed since the last review, was it good or bad, and why? The above is true whether a month, a quarter, or a year has...