Your path to business agility
Value stream management (VSM) in software delivery is a critical approach to success in today's digital landscape. Its systematic approach to measuring and improving flow helps organizations shorten time-to-market, increase throughput, and improve product quality. This VSM blog category provides educational insights, best practices, and real-world advice from Planview and industry experts on how to address the constraints or problems you face in your software delivery lifecycle in order to achieve better business outcomes.
I recently visited the BMW Group’s Leipzig plant. My goal was to brainstorm with BMW Group IT leaders on how we could seamlessly integrate production lines with the software lifecycle. I was also interested in learning more about how BMW approaches car production as I was in the midst of defining the Flow Framework™ for...
It seems like only yesterday that the Tasktop team was wrapping up DevOps Enterprise Summit London in June. Yet in less than two weeks, we’re back and ready to rock ‘n’ roll in Las Vegas once again to help attendees to accelerate the business value of their software delivery. At DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas...
The launch of my upcoming book, Project to Product (pre-order here), will be on October 20th, and I’ll be previewing it at one of my favourite events of the year, DevOps Enterprise Summit, Las Vegas (October 22-24). In the lead up to the launch, I will post a series of blogs related to the genesis...
If traditional enterprises want to tap into the immense business possibilities created by the Age of Software, they need to accelerate the value delivery of their digital products and services – and fast. This isn’t ground-breaking news – most organizations are acutely aware that they need to scale their software delivery capacity and capabilities to...
A lot rests on the shoulders of CIOs and other IT leaders at traditional businesses. They face an almost daily battle against digital disruption. With startups and other digital-native companies gobbling up market share through software-driven products and services, one inalienable truth has become clear: software is responsible for a greater and greater share of...
At DOES London 2018 in June, we were delighted to see that IT organizations around the world are increasingly focusing on how work flows from ideation to production across their software delivery value streams to build better products faster. It is now abundantly clear that enterprises must think “end-to-end” and connect all the specialist teams...
Following on from April 2018’s Forrester report that concluded the “time is now” for Value Stream Management, a new report – The Forrester New Wave™: Value Stream Management Tools, Q3 2018 by Christopher Condo and Bill Seguin – looks into the capabilities and strategies of 13 of the most significant vendors in the Value Stream Management...
“Despite the well-documented benefits and criticality of toolchain integration, enterprise-level integration continues to present big challenges for many organizations.” If there was ever any doubt that enterprises relied heavily on cross-tool integration to thrive, Salesforce’s acquisition of MuleSoft for $6.5 billion in 2018 settled it. Integration is no longer an afterthought or nice-to-have. It is,...
Tasktop Integration Hub 18.3 is available today, introducing the ability to ignore specific errors, receive email notifications for errors and issues, an updated metrics dashboard with model and user ID counts, change detection interval fine-tuning, improved visibility on background jobs, and the new PTC Integrity Lifecycle Manager connector. Ignore Specific Errors Tasktop’s Activity screen displays...
Please note: the author of this blog and star of the video, Adam, is a fictional character based on the real experiences of CIOs and IT organizations that Tasktop has spoken to and/or worked with. If you’re an under-pressure CIO who is struggling to transform their IT organization despite your best efforts, you’ve come to...
