As enterprises move to adopt DevOps practices, there is a desire to measure where teams are on their journey. This sometimes leads to the development of maturity models used to assess teams’ levels and progress. While I am not going to pass judgment on what might be useful for certain organizations, I believe that the […]
The Right DevOps Tools for Value Stream Velocity
Think of DevOps tools as stepping stones to releasing new functionality into the hands of your customers faster and more frequently. Working together, tools automate processes and help companies become modern software factories. But isolated tools, like a lone rock in the middle of a river, are much less useful. Disparate tools may help an […]
9 Lessons Learned: Getting Value Stream Insights in Only 2 Days
Gene Kim, Jez Humble and other experts say that understanding and improving your value stream is really what it takes to bring your software delivery organization to the next level. While almost every IT organization has this goal, actually knowing how to make it happen can be paralyzing, because it seems like such a daunting […]
DevOps Chat: Mik Kersten, Tasktop on Value Stream Visualization
In this DevOps Chat, we sit down with Dr. Mik Kersten, CEO and co-founder of Tasktop. Mik besides being the founder of Tasktop, is also the creator of the Eclipse Mylyn open source project. Tasktop continues to lead the way in value stream visualization and software delivery integration. Mik gives us the latest on this […]