Editor’s Note: This blog post is the second in a series about Software Delivery Management written by Shawn Ahmed, vice president of product marketing. In a prior job as an engineering manager, I spent a lot of time identifying and trying to remove bottlenecks and inefficiencies that got in the way of value delivery. I wanted […]
Software Delivery Management is a Game Changer!
Editor’s Note: This article is a first in a series of blogs about Software Delivery Management written by Shawn Ahmed, vice president of product marketing. We truly live in exciting times … software has transformed every part of our existence. I remember the world just 20-30 years ago it seems so analog compared to now. The pace of […]
The Story Behind Software Delivery Management
Software Delivery Management is finally here and we’re all part of making history to launch CloudBees into this emerging category. I know each keynote during a conference is important, but sitting in the audience during DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019 in San Francisco was truly a defining and pivotal moment for our company. Shawn Ahmed, […]
eBook – From Release Anxiety to Release Orchestration
Release managers carry the weight of a successful digital transformation on their shoulders. However, while their colleagues in Development and Operations get to use and experiment with the latest and greatest tools, Release Managers often must rely on emails, spreadsheets and disconnected project management tools to keep abreast of things. Weekend-long release sessions, early morning […]
Whitepaper – DevOps Performance: The Importance of Measuring Throughput and Stability
Measuring DevOps performance in any business can be a difficult task. Product and engineering teams often lack insight into their software development value streams to determine how work is flowing, where the blockages appear and how to improve their continuous delivery process. These hurdles can be addressed by knowing what key metrics will guarantee success […]
Value Stream Management: Software Delivery Visibility and Insight
Overview The digital economy has pushed organizations to produce better products faster, leading them to adopt DevOps and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) for efficient software delivery. This industry shift impacts all groups within an organization to evaluate and adopt new business practices to meet this growing need and stay competitive in the market. Indeed, IT leaders […]
Introducing Software Delivery Management
If you were amongst the attendees of our first few CloudBees Days events of 2019, in Madrid April 4, Zurich April 10, or yesterday in Dallas April 16, you witnessed us introducing the world to a new category of software we are inventing here at CloudBees: Software Delivery Management, or SDM (yeah, I know the world needs […]
Why SaaS CI/CD Solutions Work for Open Source Projects
Today, open source communities use a wide range of tools for building and delivering their software. These tools tend to also be open source, but more and more open source communities are starting to see the value of managed, SaaS tools to help support their communities and their goals. Still, finding the right fit can […]
What is DevOps?
From conferences to articles and books, the term DevOps has taken the IT world by storm. The buzz is understandable, as many IT groups are looking for a way out of the morass of delayed projects, questionable quality and missed deliveries in which they often find themselves. It’s clear DevOps has potential to address the challenges IT […]










