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

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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 …

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Using Value Stream Automation Patterns and Analytics to Accelerate DevOps

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  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 …

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

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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

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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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Imagine Turning Chaos Into Predictable Software Delivery

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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 …

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

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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 …

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How to Use Value Stream Management to Identify and Eliminate Non-value-added Activities and Control Costs

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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 …

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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 …