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

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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 …

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

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

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

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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 …

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What Value Stream Management Isn’t

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There are a few definitions of Value Stream Management (VSM) floating around out there. Most seem pretty good, but they are necessarily very broad and maybe vague. That’s because value stream management is a very broad concept. Given the hype around these three words, and how it’s often shortened to two words, there is a lot of confusion. Maybe it will help if we discuss what value stream management isn’t.