Enterprise Agile Planning

Enterprise Agile Planning är en skalbar plattform för Lean Portfolio Management, Agile Program Management och Agile Delivery på företagsnivå som stöder organisationer från strategi till leverans, oavsett var de befinner sig på sin omvandlingsresa. Planera och finansiera både Lean-Agile- och traditionella portföljer i en enda plattform för strategiskt anpassade, resultatstyrda planer. Enterprise Agile Planning-lösningen ger organisationer möjlighet att leverera det värde som är viktigast samtidigt som de förändras på deras villkor och enligt deras tidsplan.

Partner Success = People, Process, and Technology Integration

To succeed in the software industry, you have to build, sell, and support your software better than others. Throw in a partner ecosystem and you have to ensure that all your partners have the same ability; at least to the extent that they can sell and support the product1. This increases the complexity of the...

Top 5 Kanban Books to Add to Your Reading List

Whether you just built your first Kanban board or you’re a Kanban expert, it’s always smart to deepen or refresh your Kanban knowledge by reading the work of leading influencers. For beginners, learning about Kanban principles and practices from the experiences of others can offer context, guidance, and inspiration to maintain a consistent, informed practice....

Agile, sailing and a seven-foot yeti: Tasktop summer in review

Monday was Labor Day, which marks the traditional end of the summer in the US. The kids are back in school, and nobody’s allowed to wear white anymore, or something like that. So, in keeping with these traditions, I thought I’d do my take on the classic ‘What I did this summer’ back-to-school essay prompt…but with...

Continous Integration Testing for a Rainy Day

In an increasingly Cloud-centric world, we need to build and support an ever-growing list of SaaS SDLC integrations. That includes tools like Atlassian Cloud (JIRA), Microsoft’s Visual Studio Team Services, and HPE’s new Octane ALM offering. Supporting Cloud-based integrations poses some interesting challenges: Cloud vendors typically choose a high cadence release cycle relative to on-premise...

Help Your Organization Avoid DevOps, Agile, & Lean Transformation Failures with Tasktop and Vivit

Vivit, an independent, non-profit organization representing the Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) software community, aims to foster education, community building, and advocacy for its members. Since Tasktop’s mission is to connect the world of software delivery, it only makes sense for Tasktop to be involved in the conversation. With 76 local chapters spanning 28 countries and...

Announcing the Tasktop July 2016 Release and what it means to support Enterprise Agile

As predictable as the arrival of the end of July, so too is the predictability of Tasktop’s quarterly release train. Every three months, we release our entire product line, adding additional endpoints, adding support for the new version releases for endpoints we already support and enhancing our products with features that streamline and automate SDLC...

10 Agile Things to Do This Summer

Summer is here! That means that the internet will be awash with lists of ‘fun outdoor activities’ that you can do in and around your city, from the fairly unimaginative ‘spend a day at the beach’ to the very weird, there’s no end to the suggestions on what to do with the extra hours in...

How to Guarantee Failure in Your Agile DevOps Transformation

Many organizations make the same mistakes when it comes to scaling Agile and DevOps and then attempt to rectify those mistakes by formulating a new strategy—only to miss the real reasons why the initiative failed. As someone who helps companies through software delivery transformations, I’ve seen my share of ineffective behaviors. What I find most...

Summer of Agile Reading List

This week marked the official start of summer in the northern hemisphere, and here at Tasktop, we’ve declared this the Summer of Agile. We got started a bit early with last week’s webinar: SAFe & Requirements Management: Oxymoron or Practical Reality? with our VP of Product Management, Nicole Bryan. To be fair, Nicole and I...

Synchronize Targetprocess With Other Tools In Your Agile Stack

Here at Tasktop, we’re excited about the release of our Targetprocess connector. Having used Targetprocess for almost 2 years, we are thrilled to announce the capability to synchronize Targetprocess with other tools in the agile stack. Indeed, the ability to integrate Targetprocess with other tools is something that we ourselves need and have started to...