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Software Toolchain Integration is fundamental in the current evolution of IT operations. It's not just about connecting tools; it's about crafting a synergistic environment that accelerates efficiency and propels software delivery teams to new heights. In this blog category, we offer insights, practical guidance, and expert analysis from Planview on navigating through the complexities of diverse tool environments. Our focus is on imparting actionable knowledge that helps technology leaders overcome integration hurdles, enhance collaboration, and achieve superior business results.
Discover strategies for defining your shared services team's impact in quantifiable terms, making your contributions as evident and persuasive as financial outcomes when budgeting time comes around.
Organizations often face a crucial decision when investing in a value stream integration solution: should they build a custom value stream integration solution in-house or invest in a pre-built one? Explore the intricacies of this decision-making process, evaluating the advantages and disadvantages of each option and understanding the scenarios in which investing in a ready-made commercial solution is most beneficial.
In the pursuit of successful digital transformation, many businesses have faced challenges stemming from fragmented data repositories and the implementation of multiple systems of record to accommodate evolving business demands. Learn why a digital toolchain integration hub is critical and examine two common integration scenarios.
Learn how to identify your key stakeholders and present a solid business case to get buy-in for an integration platform.
Integration is all about getting data to where it needs to be — creating a copy of a specific set of information from one location to another — and then keeping those two copies in sync. In software delivery tools, the data of interest exists as objects termed “artifacts”, which are work items like features,...
Delivering a premium digital experience is more than just clever features and functionality: it’s about maximizing uptime for end users. Our ongoing work with a Fortune 500 healthcare company illustrates just how important a seamless incident management process is to ensure product stability, and customer and employee happiness. Tasktop integrated the organization’s ITSM tool—ServiceNow—to its...
When it comes to traceability in enterprise software delivery, there’s no beating around the bush: It’s always going to be a challenge. It is, after all, a complex adaptive system that comprises a huge evolving web of people, disciplines, teams and processes. Complicating matters further, traceability also means different things to different people across the...
Integrating qTest Manager and Azure DevOps allows you to automatically flow requirements and defects between the two tools, creating automated traceability, enhancing cross-team collaboration between developers and QA/test teams, and most importantly, reducing time to resolution. The Art of Time Efficiency During my sophomore year of college, I had a Biology professor who ran a...
Until recently, manual traceability from compliance reporting has held back large organizations from becoming software innovators. Now, enterprise toolchain integration is helping organizations across heavily-regulated industries, such as healthcare, automobile, finance and government, to automate the sophisticated flow of work from ideation to operation, helping them obtain one source of truth into a product’s development....
Turning software delivery data into IT and business intelligence is nothing new; it’s the 21st-century gold rush. Yet getting to this level of maturity is a herculean undertaking, especially for IT organizations looking to obtain accurate cross-tool reporting that provides them with business-critical insights into their software delivery. For many, obtaining the one source of...
