Value Stream Management

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.

TasktopLIVE: The Software Delivery Game is Changing

Last Tuesday, we unveiled our next-generation product Tasktop Integration Hub at our headquarters in Vancouver. During a live-stream event – TasktopLIVE – we set our new approach to software delivery and explained how we’re redefining the Agile and DevOps landscape. CEO and founder, Dr Mik Kersten, kicked off proceedings by providing acute analysis of the software delivery...

Why Do Software Lifecycle Integration Projects Fail?

Most software lifecycle integration (SLI) projects fail because organizations underestimate just how difficult integration is and are unaware that software development and delivery tools are not designed to integrate. The APIs in endpoint tools were built by their vendors to create a tiered architecture and not necessarily for third party integration. The tools are built...

Announcing the Tasktop DevOps Integration Hub

Some of the most interesting problems in technology only surface at scale.  For the past few years, the majority of Tasktop’s customers have been using Sync to achieve scaled Agile. Without tool chain integration, it is impossible to get hundreds or thousands of IT staff adopting enterprise Agile methodologies such as SAFe, DAD, Scrum.org’s Nexus...

Synchronizing Your Artifacts Is Good, But Organizing Them Is Better

Imagine this scenario. All the fields from all the artifacts in one system synchronize to your other tool, but you’re responsible for reconstituting each artifact. You have to collect all the comments, statuses and attachments for each Story, Task and Requirement and put them back together. Sounds horrific, right? That’s because the relationship between the...