Tag: continuous improvement
How Can DevOps Teams Use Customer Intelligence Data?
DevOps can use the insights drawn from customer intelligence in addition to its use informing business strategy, product development and marketing ...
Why IT Teams Need Continuous Improvement
In the dynamic world of software delivery, an ‘if it’s not broke don’t fix it’ philosophy won’t get you very far—even when your software and systems are working as planned. Software is ...
5 Ways to Transform DataOps With Human-in-the-Loop Automation
We are in the middle of a data renaissance. Today, it’s not just about data instrumentation but also learning how to make DataOps a real business advantage for the entire organization. Data ...
Not Everything That is Necessary Adds Value
Since the Lean production method for manufacturing arose in the 1930s, organizations everywhere have been seeking ways to apply it to reduce waste and increase productivity. This model has served thousands of ...
Empowering Teams to Make Mission: Impossible Possible
“Your mission, should you choose to accept it….” That’s the way the original Mission: Impossible TV show and, later, the movie series drew us in. The bad guy’s operation was explained. The ...
EP 10: Observability & Continuous Improvement
Observability at enterprise scale brings with it additional application life cycle management requirements. Success requires knowing which changes result in improvements and which don’t produce positive results and how that information must ...
Learning ‘The Third Way’ of DevOps – Continuous Improvement
I refer to the third way of DevOps–continuous experimentation and learning, as simply continuous improvement. In some sense, there is no way to learn the third way of DevOps because it is, ...
Then and Now: The Evolution of DevOps Culture
There are many available resources dedicated to delivering better business value faster. Based on this advice, many organizations and teams are adopting common software delivery practices — even outside the usual use ...
Data and Tools Don’t Solve Problems, People Do
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 ...
Review, Review, Review
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 ...
Increasing Software Velocity While Maintaining Quality and Efficiency
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 ...
Enterprise Kanban Implementation: Where to Start and How to Scale Across an Organization
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 ...