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Patrick är Senior Content Manager på Tasktop och övervakar företagets program för innehåll och tankeledarskap. Utanför kontoret kan du hitta honom när han läser, skriver, spelar lite bas (dåligt), vandrar i naturen och följer sitt engelska fotbollslag West Ham United.

Salesforce acquires Mulesoft to put integration firmly on the map

At Tasktop, we’re excited by the news that Salesforce has acquired Mulesoft, in a deal that is estimated to be worth upto $6.5 billion. The acquisition is another significant development in driving IT efficiency across enterprises, further emphasizing the importance of data integration between systems. Salesforce is a leading CRM solution that enables organizations to...

The False Dilemma: Do I invest in release automation or tool integration?

CIOs may have more dollars to play with in 2018 – enterprise IT budgets are expected to rise by 3 percent – but that doesn’t make their day job any easier. They still need to extract more value from IT to help drive the business. But with all the technology and noise in the market,...

Maximizing Jira – understanding your centers of criticality

If like most enterprises your organization builds its own software, it’s highly likely your developers are using Jira to plan their work. But are you using it to its full potential? That depends on how you’re using Jira within the context of your software delivery value stream. The planning, building and delivery of software products...

Why all CIOs should be prioritizing Software Delivery Value Stream Integration

Waiting 12 months to integrate your software delivery value stream can actually cost an organization up to $10 million a year in productivity overhead The modern enterprise has to consider and prioritize a dizzying array of IT business initiatives. Many of these decisions fall to the CIO – after all, they’re responsible for leading an...

CIOs – are you measuring the right DevOps data?

“When digital transformation is done right, it’s like a caterpillar turning into a butterfly. When done wrong, all you have is a really fast caterpillar.” – George Westerman, Principal Research Scientist with the MIT Sloan Initiative on the Digital Economy Has there been a more exciting yet challenging time to be a CIO? Bridging the...

How to minimize conflict in enterprise software delivery with value stream architecture

More features out the door, faster time to market, fewer defects, and shorter time to value: it’s widely accepted that you have to deliver better software products faster to gain that all important competitive edge. That’s why you’ve invested in DevOps, Agile, best-of-breed tools and specialist people, often to the tune of millions of dollars....

Are you drowning Jira and the rest of your software delivery stream?

“Any tool that has attempted to be ‘everything for everyone’ has failed miserably” – Dr. Mik Kersten, CEO and founder, Tasktop In the fable ‘The Man and The Wooden God’, the protagonist spends most of their life praying to a wooden idol for wealth and fortune to no avail. One day, in a fit of...

Every second counts – why you need Software Value Stream Integration today

“Each time you receive an email that describes a defect, or send one asking about a requirement, it costs a little bit of time and money, and introduces the opportunity for errors and omissions.” Connecting your best-of-breed tools for planning, building and delivering enterprise software is probably on your radar. Considering that nearly 50 percent of the...

New Tasktop Integration Hub release includes new codeBeamer connector and provides deeper ‘integration sophistication’

The new release (17.4) for Tasktop Integration Hub – out today – includes a new connector with Intland’s codeBeamer ALM, and provides our customers with enhanced control of increasingly complex integration scenarios. codeBeamer ALM Tasktop now integrates codeBeamer ALM with all other leading best-of-breed tools for planning, building and delivering software, including leading DevOps systems....

Technology Roadmapping – The Key To Becoming A Platform Leader

‘Technology Roadmapping’ is one of the widely used techniques in the software and hardware industry to help an organization to achieve its goals. A flexible technique that supports strategic and long-term planning, the approach ‘provides a structured (and often graphical) means for exploring and communicating the relationships between evolving and developing markets, products and technologies...