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

In by Jenna Potts

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

In by Jenna Potts

  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 

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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Best Value Stream Management Tool: What Is ConnectALL’s Secret Sauce?

In Business Value, ConnectALL, Value Stream Management by Soumya Menon

“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.” — Peter Druker, the management guru who thought about Agile even before it existed. This is the simple principle that has driven a value stream management (VSM) company to build an army of Agile workforce and create solutions that enable software development companies to remove waste and become more predictable. As in the words of its President & COO Lance Knight, “You see waste, eliminate it. But, first, you need visibility. And ConnectALL will enable you to do just that.” ConnectALL, a value stream …

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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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Control the Flow in Your Software Delivery Value Stream Like Never Before: Introducing Logic Flow Adapters and Other Advanced Automation Capabilities in ConnectALL v2.11

In Business Value, ConnectALL, Product Updates, Value Stream Management by Soumya Menon

In a rapidly changing, chaotic, and unpredictable software world, the need is to empower humans to visualize and control a business’s flow from customer requests to customer usage. Leading companies are becoming predictable by implementing value stream management (VSM) and according to a leading analyst firm, 93% of companies will adopt or expand their value stream management use by 2024. With companies adopting VSM as a means to improve flow across their software delivery value stream, visibility needs to be simplified rather than complicated. To meet this challenge and empower users like never before, ConnectALL, the value stream management company, …

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The Bitter Truth About the State of Value Stream Management

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As we get closer to the beginning of the new year, we feel obliged to give you all a “state of value stream management” report. The value stream management space has been heating up faster than it is being defined. Amid the confusion, there has been a noticeable shift in what we believe to be the wrong direction. In pursuit of this hotness, over 20 small, mid-sized, and large companies now claim to provide VSM solutions, but are all of them helping with digital transformation goals, DevOps initiatives, or Agile transformation? Or have they simply jumped on the bandwagon and …