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You’ve Heard What Value Stream Management Isn’t. Now Hear the Truth About What It Is.

At ConnectALL, we have discussed ad nauseum what value stream management isn't.  We've told you that it is NOT a tool, NOT a feature, and NOT a map. It isn't a person, it isn't a platform, and it isn't a set of metrics. Agile? DevOps? Also not value stream management. But what is less clear in our industry is a concrete definition of what value stream management actually is. It's time to draw our line in the sand. We are going to push aside the squishiness that often accompanies this topic and plant our flag on what we believe is ...

Accelerate Your Agile Processes by Automating Workflows and Letting PPM Tools Interoperate

One of the biggest challenges that Agile managers face is the lack of visibility into their projects, portfolios and programs. When you connect your PPM tools and let them interoperate, you enable project managers, program managers, portfolio managers, or project stakeholders to view real-time status and progress of agile projects. In this webinar, we will show you how you can create an all-in-one system for PPM when you connect Jira and Rally Software. It helps couple product management, development and QA teams bringing in visibility, improved coordination and a seamless product delivery process. We will show you how with a ...

Six Ways Tool Integration Dramatically Improves Test Management Processes and QA

Now, I got no fight with any man who does what he's told, but when he don't, the machine breaks down. And when the machine breaks down, we break down. And I ain't gonna allow that in any of you. Not one. — Sgt Barnes, Platoon (1986) In our world of software delivery, machine breakdowns include tools and systems not integrating and interoperating, people not communicating, and the resultant defects that occur in the application under test. And the reality is that we do face communication breakdowns that impact the productivity and quality of everything we create. We assume that ...

Simplify Change Request Management: Supercharge Agile by Connecting SAP Solution Manager and Jira

Are you currently using manual steps to manage what changes move to your production environment? If so, then you are most likely adding layers of waste to your change management process. At the same time, it is also important that you are staying in compliance with your internal governance processes. So how can you make your software delivery more agile while maintaining the important processes managed within your SAP environment? In this webinar, we will show you how connecting Jira and SAP Solution Manager will help you control your change management process. By automating the change management process in this ...

Speed Without Limits: How VSM and Tool Integrations Help Regulated Industry Leaders Speed Up Software Delivery

Have you ever found yourself thinking something like this? "These new methods of software delivery won't work in my industry. We're just too regulated to do things that way." As software delivery methods like Agile and DevOps continue to rise in popularity, and lean practices like Value Stream Management are implemented to accelerate it, you may find yourself feeling left behind due to the nature of your industry. These new approaches may work for flashier industries like tech or retail, but what about those of us who are in more tightly regulated fields? There are strict regulations in spaces like ...

How to Facilitate Development Team Collaboration in Minutes by Connecting Jira and Azure DevOps

Almost everyone has experienced delays between the different stages of your software delivery. Everyone just takes these delays to be part of the process, But it's the length and cause of the delays that are the real issues. What causes these delays? The software delivery process is done in various step by teams using tools, mostly designed for their specific needs. Any transition requires a handoff, which at best creates wasted time in the process and at worst can cause major issues if something isn't communicated properly. As any fan of (American) football know, wherever there's a handoff, there's a ...

How to Connect Development and Customer Support in Minutes: ServiceNow and Jira

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 ...

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 ...