Tag: continuous improvement

When developing software, many managers believe that data and tools will solve all their problems. If they just have enough data or the right data analysis tools, development and delivery become automated ...

Ossification is an issue in IT, and always has been. It is borne largely out of staff and management knowing what to expect from existing software/infrastructure, and the deep product knowledge that ...

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 ...

The Evolution of Kanban  At its core, Kanban is a management method designed to improve customer satisfaction by creating fast and reliable workflows capable of delivering products and services of superior quality ...

Imagine if you backed out of your driveway, tapped the gas and BAM! You are at work. Nothing to worry about along the way, no traffic congestion, no other cars to worry ...

Information technology has been an integral piece of the modern enterprise for multiple decades and that dependency is only growing. With digital transformation, there’s the inevitable increase in demand for new applications ...

Leadership is the foundation for all agility. I’ve written elsewhere extensively on a model that works well for the new environment in which we find ourselves: the need for tens or hundreds ...

Every year since mid-decade, it seems, one publication or another has declared it to be “the year of DevOps.” Allow me to make the case that it really will happen in 2020 ...

When we talk about best practices for software reliability, the conversation tends to focus on optimizing the applications themselves and the infrastructure that hosts them. The driving idea is reliability must be ...

Adopting DevOps means changes from how you build software to organizational processes and cultural behaviors. Large enterprises have even greater challenges to overcome, including supporting a large number of applications and addressing ...

In less than a decade, DevOps has become a buzzword of the IT industry, and enterprises are already reaping its benefits. But the implementation part still remains a question for many firms, ...

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 ...