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DevOps Experience 2022

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  As a DevOps leader, what is it that you need right now to collaborate better with your business leaders to drive the business forward? Data! Relevant, reliable, and real-time data from your DevOps pipeline that can be easily understood and acted on. Data for metrics in analytics to drive critical business decisions for improvement.  With DevOps everywhere, data is everywhere! How do you get the most out of all the data residing in the myriad tools in your DevOps pipelines?  Using value stream management principles, you can strategically aggregate, display, and analyze data from multiple disparate tools supporting your …

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

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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 …

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

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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 …

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WORKSHOP: Accelerate Software Delivery With Value Stream Mapping

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August 10, 2022 @ 1PM ET Have you ever played pin the tail on the donkey? The premise of this children’s game seems simple enough: Use a thumbtack to attach a paper tail to a picture of a donkey. So what makes this game challenging? The blindfold. It becomes nearly impossible to pinpoint the right place for the tail when the participant can no longer see. Your software delivery process works (or doesn’t) in a similar way. Unlike on a factory floor where you can physically see the machinery at work, the process to build software is often invisible. Because …

DevOps West 2018

In by Soumya Menon

Find out how the practice of DevOps brings cross-functional stakeholders together to deliver software with greater speed and agility. Learn from industry experts how your organization can apply DevOps concepts to improve deployment frequency and time to market, reduce lead time, and more successfully deliver stable new features. Plus, DevOps West is held in conjunction with Better Software West and Agile Dev West conferences, allowing you to choose from three distinct programs. DevOps Development DevOps and Test/QA Personal Improvement Process & Metrics User Experience (UX) Soumya MenonHead of Content Marketing at ConnectALL, responsible for communication and content marketing strategy. For …