Data can drive significant business value for every company. Globally, we are collecting more of it than ever before, and it keeps growing—from 45 zettabytes in 2019 to a projected 175 zettabytes by 2025, according to IDC. However, companies are struggling to monetize all the personal, behavioral, engagement and transactional data from customers and operations […]
How to Successfully Scale Agile
Agile has proved its value to businesses across industries and geographies. In fact, the pandemic elevated it to an absolute necessity for organizations’ success and survival. Business leaders around the world invested aggressively in Agile transformation as they scrambled to meet changing customer demands through newly hybrid and remote workforces. Not surprisingly, the faster they […]
Enterprises Face Growing Technical Debt
Technologists are always espousing new, trendy development solutions. More robust frameworks, increased delivery, better integration. But rarely do these proponents consider the long-term side effects of introducing new technologies. As a result, technical debt is an all-to-common occurrence in most companies. Nearly a third of IT budgets are dedicated to addressing technical debt. Devoting so […]
Broadcom Adds VSM Platform to DevOps Portfolio
Broadcom Inc. today added a dedicated value stream management (VSM) application to its portfolio of DevOps offerings as part of an effort to make it simpler to prioritize software development initiatives. Serge Lucio, vice president and general manager for the enterprise software division of Broadcom, said that while the company has previously provided VSM capabilities […]
The Single-Sentence Postmortem
Do you have four seconds? In the time it takes you to read this sentence you could be done with your incident’s postmortem. “But my postmortem has 8 sections! I have to construct a critical timeline, restate my followup tasks, show the major milestones, evaluate root cause…” Stop right there. First of all, your incident […]
The Importance of Incorporating DesignOps Into DevOps
Design is a critical software project element that often goes unnoticed by those writing code. After all, coders and implementers tend to take the design process for granted and leave the look and feel of applications to the designers. In the days of waterfall based development, design was one of the first steps in the […]
Hybrid Low-Code: The Next Step in App Development
The promise of low-code development has long been the ability to develop business-critical applications by humans with little programming experience. In fact, over the past year or two, the lines between low-code and no-code have become increasingly blurred. Low-code platforms have incorporated more and more functional no-code features to increase the efficiency of the developer […]
Plutora’s Bob Davis: Work From Home and Value Stream Management
American writer Orison Swett Marden said, “Success is not measured by what you accomplish but by the opposition you have encountered and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.” After the year that’s passed, with operations and development teams forced to scatter and work remotely, it’s a sentiment DevOps teams […]
Improving Mainframe Agility With DevOps
Mainframe workloads were on the rise even before the coronavirus pandemic, and transaction-processing mainframes became vital as lockdowns went into effect and every aspect of business and personal life occurred online. Mainframes are reliable, secure, highly available and affordable, and it is essential for organizations to ensure their mainframe can achieve peak agility to enhance […]
Report: Software Quality Issues Costing U.S. Companies $2.08 Trillion
A report published today by the Consortium for Information & Software Quality (CISQ) estimates poor software quality collectively cost companies in the U.S. an estimated $2.08 trillion in 2020. The report, co-sponsored by software quality and security tools provider Synopsys, attempts to calculate, at least theoretically, the cost of known software failures. The report identifies […]