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Rick Slade

Rick Slade is Compuware’s executive DevOps solution architect. As a DevOps evangelist, Rick has more than a decade of experience helping customers develop enterprise DevOps ecosystems to excel in the digital economy. Rick is a certified scaled agilist from the Scaled Agile Framework group and an open group distinguished IT specialist.

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Increasing Software Velocity While Maintaining Quality and Efficiency

May 22, 2020 | continuous improvement, mainframe software delivery, MTTB, MTTD, sdlc, software velocity

At Compuware, we have been exploring the need for continuous improvement across three key dimensions of software development: velocity, quality and efficiency. Given today’s current market demands and the importance of digital ...

Maintaining Exceptional Quality Despite Shrinking Delivery Deadlines

October 2, 2019 | Automated testing, automation, development team, integration process, key performance indicators, KPIs, software development, software quality

My first article in this series focused on the need for continuous improvement across three key dimensions of software development–velocity, quality and efficiency. While these are all equally important, in this piece ...

Focusing on the True DevOps North Star: Continuous Improvement

April 15, 2019 | continuous improvement, devops, key performance indicators, KPI, metrics data

When we look beyond the fundamentals of tearing down silos and establishing greater collaboration, communication and transparency, DevOps is a label assigned to a framework of best practices and technologies that organizations ...