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Värdeflödeshantering (VSM) i programvaruleveranserna är en kritisk metod för att lyckas i dagens digitala landskap. Den systematiska metoden för att mäta och förbättra flödet hjälper organisationer att förkorta tiden till marknaden, öka genomströmningen och förbättra produktkvaliteten. Denna bloggkategori för VSM ger pedagogiska insikter, bästa praxis och råd från Planview och branschexperter om hur du kan ta itu med de begränsningar eller problem som du möter i livscykeln för leverans av mjukvara för att uppnå bättre affärsresultat.
“If you can’t describe what you are doing as a value stream, you don’t know what you’re doing” – Karen Martin and Mike Osterling, Value Stream Mapping You’ve heard us talk a lot recently about value streams in software delivery. How leading IT organizations are no longer concentrating on how fast they deliver software, but...
Of all of the things I’ve done while at Tasktop, working on webinars has to be my favorite. Every month, I get the chance to work with intelligent people with unique perspectives on software development and delivery to educate and inspire viewers to improve the way their organizations deliver value to customers. We like to...
When people talk about traceability in enterprise software development and delivery, they’re generally referring to “requirements traceability”. Requirements traceability is about tracing the lifecycle of a requirement (i.e., what the end user expects from a new or modified product) and its related design elements (tests, commits, builds, etc.) as it moves downstream towards deployment following a...
First it was “Waterfall”. Then it was “Agile” and “DevOps”. Now the concept du jour in the enterprise software delivery space is “value stream” – and for good reason. Many enterprises in the Fortune 100 are no longer focusing purely on how to build software, but why they’re building software. A seismic shift is taking...
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...
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...
“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...
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....
“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...
Are you a sales manager that has no idea where a customer feature request is? Are you fed up with chaser phone calls and firing off countless emails to get a status update? Are you afraid of letting your customer down? Then you’ve come to the right place. The problem Once you’ve made a sale,...
