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Transform Your Workflow: Top Automation Patterns for Project and Portfolio Management

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Do you struggle to identify bottlenecks in your workflows or find ways to optimize your organization’s value stream? Are you constantly trying new solutions to streamline your workflow, increase productivity, and boost your bottom line? In this webinar, we’ll explore the top value stream automation patterns that can help navigate common challenges faced by PPM managers and how they can use automation patterns to simplify processes, eliminate waste, and improve efficiency.

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Top Automation Patterns to Accelerate DevOps

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Automation goes beyond code and connected integrations to automate end user tasks. Learn how you can use these top Automation Patterns to speed up the process of DevOps, and how to automate everything from infrastructure and micro-services to database development.

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SD Times Live! Micro-Webinar Series – Pattern Thinking & Value Stream Automation Patterns: An Intro to Pattern Thinking

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Join us April 18 at 1PM ET, for our first episode in a series of micro-webinars covering “Pattern Thinking & Value Stream Automation Patterns.” It’s crucial for organizations to be agile and efficient. To achieve this, optimizing flow in the software delivery value stream is key. And the answer is pattern thinking and automation patterns. Tune in to find out the importance of automating using pattern recognition; automation patterns that’ll accelerate DevOps and Agile; and a lot more.

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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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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 …

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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, …