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

In by Jenna Potts

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:

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Introducing 2.11: Control Flow Like Never Before

In by Jenna Potts

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 …

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How to Automate Your Workflow Between Jira & Rally in Minutes

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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 …

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Managing Flow by Using Value Stream Management and Observability

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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, …

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

In by Jenna PottsLeave a Comment

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 …

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

In by Jenna PottsLeave a Comment

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 …

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

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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 …

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Can You See Your End-to-End Value Stream?

In Value Stream, Value Stream Management by Soumya Menon

Most companies that have adopted value stream management (VSM) to help make work visible haven’t really got it right. Why? To see across the value stream would mean having control over the value stream with an end-to-end view into enterprise workflows, and not just focusing on orchestrating or automating lower-level activities. The challenge in managing these end-to-end value streams is that they inevitably span several systems, some of which are even on the cloud. Without visibility or dynamic flexibility, organizations can’t address issues in a timely fashion.