Value stream management companies Tasktop and Broadcom have announced a new partnership to enable companies to better measure their business value. Tasktop’s technology will power Broadcom’s ValueOps Connectors, which will synchronize data between software development tools and Broadcom’s ValueOps Value Stream Management Solution. According to the companies, this solution will provide companies with the ability … continue reading
Tasktop announced its new Tasktop Viz VSM Portfolio Insights, which aims to bridge the IT-to-business gap for value stream management. The company also closed $100 million in new funding. According to the company, the VSM Portfolio Insights Dashboard rolls up metrics and analytics generated at the individual product value stream level to the executive plane. … continue reading
The latest version of Tasktop Hub is now available. Tasktop Hub 20.2 is designed to make toolchain integration easier by enabling large-scale organizations to accelerate the flow of work and business value across their software portfolio. Key highlights include more control over operational processes using Conditional Field Flow, conflict resolution at the field-level, enhanced support … continue reading
CollabNet VersionOne is a leading platform provider for Value Stream Management, Agile planning, DevOps and source code management. Its offerings provide global enterprise and government industry leaders a cohesive solution that enables them to ideate, create and orchestrate the flow of value through continuous delivery pipelines with measurable business outcomes. ConnectALL is a company dedicated … continue reading
Brian Muskoff, director of DevOps strategy at HCL Technologies, IT and digital solutions provider We believe value stream management is an everyday solution to improve collaboration, delivery flow and business results. With HCL UrbanCode Velocity, teams can immediately change the nature of their Agile + DevOps practices with our value stream visualization that we call … continue reading
Organizations cannot ignore today’s ongoing digital transformation. With every company now becoming a software company, if software isn’t being created correctly and quickly enough, industry pundits argue, companies are going to find it difficult to stay alive. “There is a digital transformation going on and if you are not changing the way you are doing … continue reading
New ways of doing work, such as shifting from a project mentality to a value-centric product mentality, spurs the need for new roles in software. That was the focus of a session here at the DevOps Enterprise Summit this morning presented by Dominica DeGrandis, the new principal flow advisor at Tasktop, who outlined the difference … continue reading
Google introduced Kotlin Bootcamp for Programmers and Developing Android apps in Kotlin Codelab courses to help developers learn how to develop apps using Kotlin, including Kotlin-friendly APIs and API extensions. The language interoperates with Java and is included with IntelliJ and Android Studio. The course teaches Kotlin features such as coroutines to help developers write … continue reading
Software delivery teams are delivering software faster with the help of Agile and DevOps, but are they delivering value faster? Although release frequency is increasing, most teams lack the visibility across the product lifecycle – and the associated toolchain – to help identify the obstacles to value stream flow. “Value stream management is not just … continue reading
Development teams thrive on precision. They need specific requirements to write clean, tight code. They need to write tests that will accurately reveal any flaws in that code. So when development managers are told they need to consider value when developing software, the reaction is, “Well, what do you mean by value?” In 2019, businesses … continue reading
DevOps and Agile are common practices, but they’re not enough to ensure the timely delivery of value to the business. While DevOps improves software delivery from code commit to code release and Agile improves the ability to create value via improved delivery timeframes, complete insight into the value that software teams deliver tends to go … continue reading
Every hundred years or so, it seems, we enter some new industrial age, and the way business works must change along with it. The Industrial Revolution led to the Age of Oil, followed by the Atomic Age and now we’re in the middle of a Digital Revolution. Change is always exciting, but painful, as companies … continue reading
