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How to Use Value Stream Management to Identify and Eliminate Non-value-added Activities and Control Costs

Irrespective of your company’s current financial position and performance, they need to sharpen their competitive edge by applying lean principles like value stream management to cost reduction — that is, the elimination of non-value-added activities or waste in the value stream processes. By tackling wastes from an end-to-end business process, your company can improve the value of their products and services. They can: achieve significant cost reduction reduce time-to-market emerge stronger with a more competitive profile Join Lance Knight, president and COO, ConnectALL and David Rubenstein, editor-in-chief, SD Times, in a 10-minute discussion, as they throw light on how VSM ...

How to Connect Development and Testing in Minutes: Micro Focus ALM/QC and Jira

Is your test team burned out handling last-minute validation requests and your development team lacking visibility into test progress and requirements? One of the biggest reasons is that these teams work in disparate systems like Jira and Micro Focus ALM/QC. Imagine when you connect them, your teams will instantly reduce the time taken on manual and duplication of efforts, will have no dependencies on manual communications, and can get real-time updates on changes, and access requirements and statuses in their own systems. In this webinar, we will show you how ConnectALL sits on top of all your systems and enables ...

How to Streamline Your Application Lifecycle in Minutes: Connecting SAP Solution Manager and Jira

Are you currently using manual steps to manage the flow of information throughout your software delivery value stream? Using a tool like SAP Solution Manager to manage your application lifecycle is helpful. However, if you choose to do so manually, then you are probably noticing either delays or breakdowns in communication between the teams involved with governance, development, and operations. Best case: you are adding layers of waste to your software delivery processes. Worst case: critical information is not being communicated properly between teams. So what can you do to automate the flow of your software throughout the entire application ...

Managing Flow by Using Value Stream Management and Observability

With DevOps pipelines having myriad of tools and DevOps teams not having an integrated tool architecture, the need for observability and lean practices like value stream management is imperative. DevOps leaders need to map out the data from their pipelines for metrics in analytics that drives critical business decisions. Observability in DevOps is the software tools and methodologies that help Dev and Ops teams to log, collect, correlate, and analyze massive amounts of performance data from a distributed application and glean real-time insights. And value stream management provides the ammunition to boost the impact of observability. In this short webinar, ...

How to Automate Your Workflow Between Jira & Rally in Minutes

Have you ever felt frustrated by long wait times and lack of communication when calling into tech support? What could it be costing your business if your customers are feeling the same way? When a customer reports an issue, they expect to know what's happening and when they can expect resolution. However, customer support and development are typically handled by two different teams. This can easily create a communication breakdown where development doesn't get the information they need, support doesn't get timely updates, and the customer just gets mad. Outside of making your developers moonlight as customer service reps (or ...

The Bitter Truth About the State of Value Stream Management

As we get closer to the beginning of the new year, we feel obliged to give you all a “state of value stream management” report. The value stream management space has been heating up faster than it is being defined. Amid the confusion, there has been a noticeable shift in what we believe to be the wrong direction. In pursuit of this hotness, over 20 small, mid-sized, and large companies now claim to provide VSM solutions, but are all of them helping with digital transformation goals, DevOps initiatives, or Agile transformation? Or have they simply jumped on the bandwagon and ...

A Christmas Miracle with Value Stream Management: How Four Elves Helped a Shoemaker Deliver High-Quality Shoes

A Christmas Miracle with Value Stream Management: How Four Elves Helped a Shoemaker Deliver High-Quality Shoes

“We have just one piece of cloth left. How do I make any shoes to sell?” This is the story of a shoemaker who ran out of business and became bankrupt. He did not know how to survive without making shoes. He had no idea what his shoemaking value stream looked likeHe did not know how to use the little he had to maximize productivity and qualityHe was unaware of all the things that were affecting his shoe-making business And one night changed his life when four elves used that piece of cloth, left on the kitchen table, to make ...

Imagine Turning Chaos Into Predictable Software Delivery

Imagine a world where you turn chaos into predictability; where you can have complete control over flow; where you have visibility into all the applications in your ecosystem. With more organizations driving digital transformation initiatives, and software development becoming Agile and data-driven, chaos is inevitable. Complex tech stacks and multiple teams lead to inefficiencies, unpredictability, and no visibility. The need is to empower humans to visualize and control the flow from customer requests to customer usage, which implies that visibility needs to be simplified rather than complicated. To meet this challenge and empower users like never before, ConnectALL, the value ...

Introducing 2.11: Control Flow Like Never Before

With companies adopting value stream management as a means to improve flow across their software delivery value stream, visibility needs to be simplified rather than complicated. Introducing the five-part series on ConnectALL’s 2.11 version with advanced value stream automation capabilities and enhanced user experience. Over five weeks, from March 23-April 20, every Thursday at 1 PM EST, we will take 10 minutes of your time to deep dive into five significant value stream automation capabilities and what value it adds. These capabilities empower teams with functionality and project visibility never before available in the value stream management space.  In this ...

Visualize and Manage Flow Across Your Software Delivery Value Stream with Purpose-specific Automations 

ConnectALL’s value stream automation sits on top of the value stream and allows users to set different automation types — synchronizing, monitoring, triggering, and collecting data. The updated version enables users to create automations based on specific purposes or intent in line with automation patterns that help achieve specific goals and outcomes. You can also visualize the flow in the value stream based on these specific purposes.  In this 10-minute microwebinar, we will touch upon: