Charting the Final Frontier (of Software Delivery): A DevOps Value Stream Mapping Workshop

Like Captain James T. Kirk in Star Trek, most IT leaders and practitioners have a desire "to boldly go where no man has gone before." What do we mean by this? Over the years, software delivery has gone through radical changes. Waterfall has led to Agile, and Agile led to DevOps. We've hired scrum masters, scheduled daily standups, and set up our kanban board. All of these efforts stem from the same end goals: work faster, build better, and don't go over budget. Now that we're in the age of DevOps and moving faster than ever, we're done right? Not ...

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

“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:

How to Use Logic to Control Flow, Create Governance and Maintain Compliance in Your Software Delivery Value Stream

Just like how logic gates are used for digital circuits to trigger outputs only when certain logic sequences are applied, you can now automatically ‘turn on’ or ‘not turn on’ outputs in a software delivery pipeline based on logical conditions. ConnectALL’s value stream automation now has the Logic Flow Adapters, that uses boolean logic (AND and OR logic) to enable users to implement business workflow logic into their value streams that depends on multiple inputs from different applications. These can be used when you want to control the flow of information through your value stream.  In this 10-minute webinar, we ...

Using Value Stream Automation Patterns and Analytics to Accelerate DevOps

  According to the State of DevOps Report, “nearly 80% of organizations remain in the middle of their DevOps journey, experiencing varying degrees of success at the team level but not across the entire organization.” There could be organizational-level reasons for companies to still be stuck—including cultural challenges. However, from a functional level, the absence of visibility into the non-value-added work from a value stream perspective is still a problem. Reducing or eliminating waste is one of the most important tenets of Lean software engineering. Waste can be found everywhere, from too many people working on a project and ineffective ...

Improve IT teams’ Efficiency by Creating New Tool Connections and Automations Quicker Using the Universal Adapter

You probably already know about the only solution in the market that can connect innumerable number of tools and applications used in the software development and delivery lifecycle — enabling limitless connectivity, unmatched collaboration, and undisrupted flow of information. ConnectALL’s patent pending Universal Adapter is now even more powerful with users being able to create new Universal Adapters for new tool connections faster with a click of a button. This enables the use of automation patterns that are goal and outcome oriented. How does this work? In this 10-minute webinar, we will show you: