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Southern Fried Agile 2014 presentation by Dave West, Tasktop's Chief Product Officer
To listen to the audio recording of the presentation, go to: http://www.tasktop.com/resources/videos/southern-fried-agile-2014
Software Developer Productivity: What we know and how to make it betterTasktop
Everyone seems to want more software developed and produced faster. Yet simply ramping up the number of individuals able to produce software is not sufficient; it is also important to improve the productivity of the software developers. But, what is software development productivity anyway? When do software developers consider themselves productive? What friction exists in software development that lowers productivity? In this talk, Gail Murphy discusses recent studies about software development productivity from the eyes of developers and will suggest directions to improve software development productivity based on the daily activities of software developers. This talk includes joint work with T. Fritz (U. Zürich), A. Meyer (U. Zürich) and T. Zimmermann (Microsoft Research).
How to Work with Software Engineers (strtupboost 10/18/18)Kate Travers
A (totally unbiased) software engineer's perspective on working with software engineers. Delivered 10/18/18 at "How to Launch a Startup" event with strtupboost.
Changing business of testing - Testing Assembly Helsinki 2014Vasco Duarte
Testing jobs will move to cheaper countries unless the role of testing changes. This is a trend that is happening already, we see large teams of testers being moved to other countries, simply because it is cheaper to do bad testing there!
Testing is a critical part of the product and software development process, and if we don't change its role it will slowly become obsolete. The fact is, that the traditional view of testing endangers testing jobs: now here, and later also in cheaper countries.
I propose a different view of testing. I propose that testing is about enabling business results, not just technical quality. I propose that the tester's job goes far beyond finding issues to track, but also finding users to acquire, finding methods to succeed in the software business. Testing in my view is about making businesses succeed, not about avoid failures in software.
In this presentation I'll describe how a very simple change can profoundly transform the role of testing in a way that it directly enables and supports our businesses! Testing is about making our businesses succeed!
The road ahead is not easy, and not every tester is ready to embrace this view of testing. But the road ahead is inevitable. And we have to start on that journey now!
Software Developer Productivity: What we know and how to make it betterTasktop
Everyone seems to want more software developed and produced faster. Yet simply ramping up the number of individuals able to produce software is not sufficient; it is also important to improve the productivity of the software developers. But, what is software development productivity anyway? When do software developers consider themselves productive? What friction exists in software development that lowers productivity? In this talk, Gail Murphy discusses recent studies about software development productivity from the eyes of developers and will suggest directions to improve software development productivity based on the daily activities of software developers. This talk includes joint work with T. Fritz (U. Zürich), A. Meyer (U. Zürich) and T. Zimmermann (Microsoft Research).
How to Work with Software Engineers (strtupboost 10/18/18)Kate Travers
A (totally unbiased) software engineer's perspective on working with software engineers. Delivered 10/18/18 at "How to Launch a Startup" event with strtupboost.
Changing business of testing - Testing Assembly Helsinki 2014Vasco Duarte
Testing jobs will move to cheaper countries unless the role of testing changes. This is a trend that is happening already, we see large teams of testers being moved to other countries, simply because it is cheaper to do bad testing there!
Testing is a critical part of the product and software development process, and if we don't change its role it will slowly become obsolete. The fact is, that the traditional view of testing endangers testing jobs: now here, and later also in cheaper countries.
I propose a different view of testing. I propose that testing is about enabling business results, not just technical quality. I propose that the tester's job goes far beyond finding issues to track, but also finding users to acquire, finding methods to succeed in the software business. Testing in my view is about making businesses succeed, not about avoid failures in software.
In this presentation I'll describe how a very simple change can profoundly transform the role of testing in a way that it directly enables and supports our businesses! Testing is about making our businesses succeed!
The road ahead is not easy, and not every tester is ready to embrace this view of testing. But the road ahead is inevitable. And we have to start on that journey now!
A Software Development Approach to Help You End Up with the Product You Reall...Peter Bodenheimer
A presentation from New Orleans Entrepreneur Week 2014 by Peter Bodenheimer of FlatStack & Barrett Conrad of CotingaSoft. The goal of this presentation was help bridge the gap often found between business founders and the technical partners helping them execute their product development vision.
La quasi totalità degli sviluppi software è basata su un approccio per progetto. Un progetto, per definizione, è qualcosa di effimero. Ha un inizio, e soprattutto una fine, qualcosa di temporaneo. Il software non è temporaneo. Un software sopravvive fino a quando esiste almeno una persona che lo utilizza. A volte sopravvive anche più a lungo.
Perché continuiamo ad usare qualcosa di effimero per gestire qualcosa che effimero non è? Quali alternative abbiamo? Possiamo fare veramente a meno dei progetti?
Implementing Scrum in Government. A presentation about an 18 month Enterprise project using Scrum and other Agile software development techniques. The team faced many challenges, both on the technical and teamwork fronts, but by the end emerged with a great product and a very high performing team.
How To Handle Exploding Complexity in Product DevelopmentPerforce
Was everything tested before the product shipped?
Were all requirements met?
Are you sure?
As product development explodes with complexity (and as requirements & tests evolve during development), many design teams struggle to answer these questions with confidence.
Knowledge gaps in product development add risk. Never good—especially in regulated industries.
But there’s more to it. For teams using Jira or spreadsheets or similar, answering these questions can take time and effort away from development. It can burden productivity and invites human error.
Is there a better way?
Watch this webinar to learn about:
-Growing challenges of product development teams.
-Ways to manage change, improve visibility throughout the lifecycle.
-How traceability is becoming the linchpin for modern design teams.
-Cost-effective tools to help simplify the complexity.
Deliver on the Promise of Agile and DevOps TransformationsTasktop
IT organizations are under continual pressure to develop and deliver high-quality applications – at speed - in order to provide key competitive advantage for their company.
They’ve adopted Agile and DevOps practices. But particularly for large organizations with complex application portfolios or compliance pressures, these practices have yet to fulfill the promise of enhancing an organization’s ability to continually deliver customer value. Agile has improved development and test; and DevOps has streamlined getting code into production. But these advances have been localized improvements; to get to the next step software delivery leaders must take a more holistic approach to improving the entire lifecycle.
In this webinar guest speaker, Forrester Senior Analyst Christopher Condo will present his analysis of practices used in modern application delivery and will describe how creating an integrated value stream can help organizations regain their focus on the delivery of customer value.
This session will have something for everyone. For the person new to Agile Development, this will provide a basic knowledge to distinguish Agile development from traditional Waterfall development. For those that have some knowledge, this will provide some practical examples and stories about what is happening in the “real world”.
We are in tough financial times, and are being ask to do more than ever with less people. Faster, better, and cheaper is the new mantra for organizations. Companies that will survive and endure for the long haul are looking for different and better ways to deliver software and are discovering Agile development as a possible answer. How do you get started with Agile practices? What are some lessons learned that I can watch out for as we get started? What will Agile fix
and what will it expose? In this session, these questions and others will be answered.
We will also explore how Agile development came to be and provide a foundational knowledge of the common practices including the Scrum framework and Extreme Programming (XP).
A Software Development Approach to Help You End Up with the Product You Reall...Peter Bodenheimer
A presentation from New Orleans Entrepreneur Week 2014 by Peter Bodenheimer of FlatStack & Barrett Conrad of CotingaSoft. The goal of this presentation was help bridge the gap often found between business founders and the technical partners helping them execute their product development vision.
La quasi totalità degli sviluppi software è basata su un approccio per progetto. Un progetto, per definizione, è qualcosa di effimero. Ha un inizio, e soprattutto una fine, qualcosa di temporaneo. Il software non è temporaneo. Un software sopravvive fino a quando esiste almeno una persona che lo utilizza. A volte sopravvive anche più a lungo.
Perché continuiamo ad usare qualcosa di effimero per gestire qualcosa che effimero non è? Quali alternative abbiamo? Possiamo fare veramente a meno dei progetti?
Implementing Scrum in Government. A presentation about an 18 month Enterprise project using Scrum and other Agile software development techniques. The team faced many challenges, both on the technical and teamwork fronts, but by the end emerged with a great product and a very high performing team.
How To Handle Exploding Complexity in Product DevelopmentPerforce
Was everything tested before the product shipped?
Were all requirements met?
Are you sure?
As product development explodes with complexity (and as requirements & tests evolve during development), many design teams struggle to answer these questions with confidence.
Knowledge gaps in product development add risk. Never good—especially in regulated industries.
But there’s more to it. For teams using Jira or spreadsheets or similar, answering these questions can take time and effort away from development. It can burden productivity and invites human error.
Is there a better way?
Watch this webinar to learn about:
-Growing challenges of product development teams.
-Ways to manage change, improve visibility throughout the lifecycle.
-How traceability is becoming the linchpin for modern design teams.
-Cost-effective tools to help simplify the complexity.
Deliver on the Promise of Agile and DevOps TransformationsTasktop
IT organizations are under continual pressure to develop and deliver high-quality applications – at speed - in order to provide key competitive advantage for their company.
They’ve adopted Agile and DevOps practices. But particularly for large organizations with complex application portfolios or compliance pressures, these practices have yet to fulfill the promise of enhancing an organization’s ability to continually deliver customer value. Agile has improved development and test; and DevOps has streamlined getting code into production. But these advances have been localized improvements; to get to the next step software delivery leaders must take a more holistic approach to improving the entire lifecycle.
In this webinar guest speaker, Forrester Senior Analyst Christopher Condo will present his analysis of practices used in modern application delivery and will describe how creating an integrated value stream can help organizations regain their focus on the delivery of customer value.
This session will have something for everyone. For the person new to Agile Development, this will provide a basic knowledge to distinguish Agile development from traditional Waterfall development. For those that have some knowledge, this will provide some practical examples and stories about what is happening in the “real world”.
We are in tough financial times, and are being ask to do more than ever with less people. Faster, better, and cheaper is the new mantra for organizations. Companies that will survive and endure for the long haul are looking for different and better ways to deliver software and are discovering Agile development as a possible answer. How do you get started with Agile practices? What are some lessons learned that I can watch out for as we get started? What will Agile fix
and what will it expose? In this session, these questions and others will be answered.
We will also explore how Agile development came to be and provide a foundational knowledge of the common practices including the Scrum framework and Extreme Programming (XP).
Building digital product masters to prevail in the age of accelerations parts...Jeffrey Stewart
Straight talk on an essential element in your risk mitigation and your organizations success
This three part story will show how building a Digital Product Master (DPM) mitigates unfunded liability risks and enables organizations to move fast, adapt quickly, and improve the top line revenue.
It will answer a number of questions...
Why should we begin building a DPM?
Why is it important for B2B SaaS firms and connected IoT product owners?
What is a Digital Product Master / what is it NOT?
Who is accountable for defining their firm’s DPM strategy?
What are unfunded liabilities and risks in the current age?
Where are we headed that make DPMs to crucial?
Each of the three parts are inspired by real life stories. The stories help frame the lessons learned that are the rationale for Building a Digital Product Master for your organization.
Part 1 of 3: Prevailing in the Age of Acceleration
Unfunded Liabilities - Technical Debt, Change Shocks,Capital Efficiency
Part 2 of 3: Meet a Digital Product Master
Business Enterprise Architecture Right-Sized for your Protection
Part 3 of 3: A Case to Study
Digital Roadmap for Teams, Tools, and Flows with four framework models
DevOps is an acronym for Development and Operations – two most important teams within any organization. For implementing DevOps successfully its important to understand the building blocks that make up this agile methodology.
DevOps is an acronym for Development and Operations – two most important teams within any organization. For implementing DevOps successfully its important to understand the building blocks that make up this agile methodology.
Scaling compliant database dev ops at the enterprise levelRed Gate Software
DevOps is moving into the mainstream, and database teams looking to deliver more value faster are quick to adopt agile development strategies. For the enterprise, however, scaling these strategies and DevOps best practices present several challenges.
In this webinar, you’ll learn about many of these challenges and how to overcome them. Our hosts will equip you with the knowledge needed to help enact change and make your enterprise more competitive moving forward, including:
Why an enterprise would consider Compliant Database DevOps
How you choose what to tackle first
How to spread the techniques needed for successful DevOps at scale
When and how you define metrics for success
High-performing Doesn't Happen Overnight, It Takes PracticeMatt Badgley
Often we attend a training class (e.g. an agile bootcamp) and we are told to "go forth and be awesome." Well, if you are trying to form high-performing product delivery teams, there's a ton to learn and a ton of things to #suckless at, so it takes practice. This session is all about using Deliberate Practice to improve our skills.
The People Model and Cloud Transformation | AWS Public Sector Summit 2016Amazon Web Services
A successful cloud transformation journey incorporates the three pillars of transformation: people, process, and technology. While leveraging the technology, the people component drives transformations. But far too often, cloud transformation efforts concentrate on the process improvement strategies and technology implementation, while essentially ignoring the human aspect of the change initiative and the opportunity to develop a more agile, DevOps culture. Many leaders who look back on previous change initiatives reflect that process and technology were simple to change compared to the people part of the organization. A central perspective within the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework, the "people perspective," guides organizations about aspects that affect people to reduce the risk and accelerate the value realization from cloud adoption. This session covers best-practice methods that enable customers to address challenges in setting up the right organizational structure to manage cloud operations, roles and job responsibilities during transition and post-cloud adoption, assessing gaps in skills and competencies required, building effective training models, and shaping a DevOps culture.
M/s Checkmate Global Technologies leverage cutting-edge technologies such as data analytics and AI, cloud computing, and blockchain to drive efficiency and growth. Our commitment to quality ensures fully responsive, user-friendly design, while our agile approach guarantees the fastest delivery.
AWS re:Invent 2016: Lift and Evolve – Saving Money in the Cloud is Easy, Maki...Amazon Web Services
Every enterprise knows by now that it can save money by simply lifting and shifting workloads to the cloud, but many are missing the larger opportunity to also make money by moving. While quick costs savings are good for the bottom line, they do little to move the top line numbers. To achieve both savings and earnings, corporate thinking about technologies must change in order to enable faster processes leveraged enterprise-wide. In this session we will explore multiple customer success stories where the customers have evolved from leveraging basic compute and storage products (EC2 and S3) to integrating new services into operations by leveraging Lambda, DynamoDB, CodeDeploy, etc. Once this is achieved, enterprises are enabled to manage and deploy code rapidly in a programmatic and elastic secure network, ensuring governance and security standards across the globe. We will look at the migration process trusted by hundreds of clients as well as how to cope with the process and people components that are so important to enable agility, while focusing heavily on the technology. The Coca-Cola Company (TCCC) and 2nd Watch story will dive deep into the technology that allows TCCC to manage hundreds of AWS Accounts, hundreds of workloads, thousands of instances, and hundreds of business partners around the globe. TCCC’s Configuration Management System has Puppet at the core and relies on over a dozen core and emerging AWS products across accounts, availability zones and regions. This complex and globally-available system ensures all of TCCC’s workloads in AWS meet corporate policies but also allows for rapid scale of both consumer and enterprise workloads. Session sponsored by 2nd Watch.
AWS Competency Partner
KEYNOTE TALK
What does it take to innovate quickly? I’ll address how blockers to innovation – including culture, skills, antiquated processes, and board level concerns – can stand in the way of business agility. We’ll map out a pathway to digital transformation including new metrics for success, integrating real-world best practices from enterprises, and the most effective organizational patterns, as we integrate the business with development and operations.
More and more organizations are turning to DevOps as a way of working together to improve the efficiency and quality of software delivery and start adding more value to the business. But what exactly is DevOps and what does it mean for you and your organization?
Join Microsoft Data Platform MVP Kendra Little to discover:
• What is DevOps and what benefits can it offer your organization?
• Who in your organization should be involved in DevOps?
• Why should your organization adopt DevOps?
• How can your organization start implementing DevOps?
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Achieving High DevOps Practice Maturity
Satish Chandran, Director, DevOps and IT Security at GainCredit
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DevOps Days Charlotte - The Rise of CultureChris Nowak
This is a presentation I gave on 2/23/18. It focuses on the culture and behavior principles and techniques to help you take your DevOps, or any change transformation, to the next level.
AWS Cloud Center Excellence Quick Start Prescriptive GuidanceTom Laszewski
This presentation is a practical playbook for defining, establishing, and implementing a Cloud Enablement Engine (CEE). It collates and summarizes the lessons learned and anti-patterns gathered from the CEE journeys successfully navigated at Amazon and other large enterprise companies. A lot has been written about the need to establish a CEE, the benefits of moving to a productization mindset, and the business value of tribes, guilds, and two-pizza teams. However, larger organizations are still struggling with a CEE 30-60-90 day plan, and the essential components of the CEE during its first six months in existence.
The prescriptive guidance in this presentation provides pragmatic and tactical advice for establishing a Cloud Enablement Engine (CEE) – also referred to as a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) or Cloud Enablement Team. This presentation serves as a step-by-step guide for the initial setup activities, and the top ten best practices that have been extrapolated from working across a large number of customers. What not to do is as important as what to do. Therefore, the top ten anti-patterns are discussed.
A key focus of the CEE is transforming the IT organization from an on-premise operating model to a Cloud Operating Model (COM). The transformation to COM and the charter of a CEE are highly correlated and interconnected. During the nascent stage of the CEE, the focus of the CEE will be on the infrastructure components of a COM. This includes the operations, security & control, platform architecture & governance, and infrastructure provisioning & configuration management functions. AWS understands that enterprise (on-premises) operating models are based on ITIL. Therefore, the cloud transformation from an on-premises operating model to a COM will include mapping ITIL to a cloud, agile, and DevOps based capabilities and processes. Fortunately, ITIL 4.0 embraces DevOps, cloud, and agile.
The People Model & Cloud Transformation - Transformation Day Public Sector Lo...Amazon Web Services
The People Model & Cloud Transformation
A successful cloud-transformation journey incorporates three pillars: people, process, and technology. Far too often, organizations focus on process improvements and technology implementation, but ignore the human aspect. Many leaders acknowledge that the first two are easy to modify, while influencing culture is more difficult. This session covers best-practice methods meant to empower customers to address this challenge. Learn about roles and responsibilities germane to the transition and post-cloud adoption phase. Assess your organization’s gaps among the requisite skills and competencies. Build effective training models. And shape an effective DevOps culture.
Speaker:
Thomas Blood, Enterprise Evangelist, Amazon Web Services.
The Way Forward: A Scaled Agile ExperienceDavid Hanson
This presentation outlines how our organization scaled Agile to meet the needs of a multi-million dollar multi-year program to create a common platform for portfolio management. Our “small-scale” scaled Agile implementation most closely resembles a blend of LeSS (small in scope) and Scrum@Scale (scaled roles, events, artifacts). The scaled implementation, initiated in 2014, has been largely successful, but not without some compromise, and continues today with remaining opportunities for improvement. Presented at Agile Boston on 13 May 2020.
Similar to Dave West (Tasktop Technologies) - Wizard of Oz (20)
The Inextricable Link Between Value Streams and Resource Capacity PlanningTasktop
During this on-demand webinar, Tasktop President and COO, Neelan Choksi, and guest speaker, Forrester Vice President and Principal Analyst, Margo Visitacion, discuss why product value streams are the key to better capacity planning.
Align, Inform, Inspire: Measuring Business Agility and SAFe® with Flow MetricsTasktop
During this on-demand webinar, Scaled Agile Principal Consultant and Framework team member, Andrew Sales, and Tasktop Sr. Value Stream Architect, Lee Reid, discuss how the three measurement domains of SAFe—Outcomes, Flow, and Competency—provide a comprehensive, yet simple, model for measuring business agility at every level of the enterprise and view data from an actual product value stream to demonstrate how Flow Metrics can enable productive conversations with the business about prioritizing work, while still maintaining the taxonomy of SAFe for teams to implement and improve.
Webinar featuring Forrester TEI study: Driving 496% ROI with Tasktop VizTasktop
Business and IT leaders are under constant pressure to deliver outstanding customer experiences, fueled by technology and innovation, at the speed of the market and at a competitive cost.
To better understand how Tasktop Viz™ can connect enterprise transformation initiatives with financial benefits, Tasktop commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study and examine the potential ROI enterprises may benefit from by deploying the Tasktop Viz value stream management solution. What the study found was significant, with Tasktop Viz users experiencing up to 496% ROI over three years.
In this on-demand webinar, Tasktop CPO, Nicole Bryan, and guest speaker, Forrester Senior Consultant, Sam Conway, discuss the findings of the TEI study and what implementing Tasktop Viz could mean for your business.
Prove Your Transformation ROI with Value Stream ManagementTasktop
2020 elevated IT into the spotlight, opening up a window of unprecedented support for accelerating digital innovation and emerging technologies. But even with increased buy-in for investment and adoption, will anything be different this year?
Without the ability to measure and place value on specific transformation initiatives, many organizations are still shooting in the dark, either working on new features without aligning to business strategy, or putting them on the back-burner to concentrate on things that are easier to cross off a list.
In this on-demand webinar, Tasktop Sr. Flow Advisor, Paninya Masrangsan, provides actionable insights on how to prove your transformation ROI with value stream management.
Let It Flow: Using Flow Metrics to Combat Cognitive OverloadTasktop
Do conflicting priorities and interruptions disrupt your week? Is your calendar crammed with back-to-back meetings? If you are already overloaded and continue to take on more work, it’s likely you’re stressed. Stress impacts cognitive functioning - making it onerous to focus on and complete important work. While cognitive overload is difficult to measure, the impact is huge.
How can the impacts of stress be measured--and communicated? In this on-demand webinar, Tasktop Principal Flow Advisor, Dominica DeGrandis, presents actionable takeaways to address cognitive overload including:
- How to enable discussion for improvements using Flow Distribution and Flow Load
- How to allocate capacity for debt work by initiating “Flow Protection Time”
- How to put conditions in place for data-driven experimentation
Leveraging Validation Lifecycle Data to Drive Actionable Business InsightsTasktop
In this on-demand webinar, Tasktop Sr. Value Stream Architect, Dan Feminella, Tx3 Services Co-founder and CRO, Eric Toburen, and Merck & Co. Test Tool Specialist, Petr Srajb, present n how organizations can start making data-driven decisions while maintaining compliance and traceability by:
- Automating the flow of Computer Systems Validation (CSV) Lifecycle data to eliminate duplicate entry and boost productivity.
- Providing real-time visibility into the health of your product value streams to see how business value is flowing—not just work
- Generating Flow Metrics to spot bottlenecks and identify opportunities where investment is needed to maximize business results.
Driving Digital Transformation Insights with Value Stream ManagementTasktop
Many organizations have been on the road to AD&D transformation, making significant investments in CI/CD and release automation, yet they still have nagging issues such as siloed teams and lack of actionable data--and the new reality of working from home has made gaining the insights needed to master software at scale even more difficult. Value Stream Management (VSM) is helping enterprises to align and make better decisions, but there is still work to be done.
In this webinar, guest speaker Forrester Principal Analyst, Chris Condo and Tasktop CEO, Dr. Mik Kersten deliver an overview of Value Stream Management—a technology and methodology for gaining insight into software delivery processes that enables dev leaders to capture data that represents the actual state of processes—and discuss how Flow Metrics provide the analytics to help organizations better balance workloads, visualize bottlenecks and provide leaders with the data they need to make continuous improvements.
7 Must-Have Value Stream Management Capabilities to Maximize ROITasktop
The transition from project to product in Enterprise IT has the potential to drastically improve market response. Product line leaders can shift resources and funds up to 90% faster than in a project model.1 But that agility and authority is wasted if inadequate data and analytics on end-to-end flow are impeding IT from accelerating business growth.
Join Tasktop Sr. Director of Product, Naomi Lurie, and Principal Value Stream Architect, Mara Puisite for a webinar demonstrating how your organization can maximize business ROI with Value Stream Management and Flow Metrics by:
Measuring the rate of value delivery across software products and services
Capturing actionable insights into the bottlenecks impeding business value delivery
Providing a unified executive view of software delivery productivity and its correlation to business results like growth
Making informed data-driven decisions about future investments in a product line
From Factories To Flow: Streamlining Software Delivery at Cubic CorporationTasktop
Cubic Corporation is a technology-driven, market-leading solutions provider that has been innovating in the public transportation and defense industry for nearly seven decades – having revolutionized elevators, global positioning, public transit fare payments and military training. With a strong foundation of software delivery through solutions such as the “Top Gun” air combat training system as well as the fare payment systems for public transportation platforms in many US and European cities, Cubic set out on a journey to double down on software innovation. A key to that transformation was shifting to a product mindset to accelerate delivery through its highly complex value streams.
During this webinar, Tasktop CEO and founder, Dr. Mik Kersten interviews Jim Colson, CTO of Cubic Corporation on how their transformation is unfolding and lessons learned along the way. We cover Cubic’s use of the Flow Framework®, SAFe® and other industry standards and view some of the flow diagnostics identified by Tasktop Viz, where Cubic was able to accelerate the pace and velocity of delivery.
Power to the People! Shifting from Project to Product with Tasktop VizTasktop
If your executive leadership has begun planning a shift from project to product, it’s time to talk about how it impacts and benefits you.
Product Managers, Engineering Managers, Scrum Masters, and Agile Coaches are invited to join this webinar to learn about:
* Measuring what matters: What to measure when you shift to product.
* Getting to product metrics fast: How to measure product value streams in a traditionally project-oriented organization.
* Aligning with the business: How to focus teams on generating new business value while negotiating priorities like tech debt.
* Empowering teams: How to motivate teams in new product structures to identify and overcome their constraints and dependencies.
Your Tasktop co-hosts—Nicole Bryan, VP Product Development, and Naomi Lurie, Sr Director of Product Marketing—will share real-life stories from enterprises using Tasktop Viz to make the shift to product. They’ll also share best practices on how to get started and literally get insights within days.
How to Drive Maximum Business Value from IT Investments with the Flow FrameworkTasktop
When organizations connect and measure the impact of their IT investments on the business’ strategy, business and technology leaders are able to partner more effectively and accelerate the delivery of real business value.
But to do so, these teams must be seamlessly aligned throughout the delivery pipeline, able to quickly identify and resolve bottlenecks, and work together to optimize their processes end-to-end. Flow Metrics enable organizations to measure what matters in software delivery, optimizing the flow of business value from ideation to operation and turning IT from a project-oriented cost center to a profit-generating product operating model.
Key Takeaways:
Discover how to align business and IT leaders to optimize value delivery using the Flow Framework™
Learn how to use Flow Metrics to expose bottlenecks and reveal opportunities to improve time-to-market, responsiveness to customers, and quality
Understand how to create a seamless end-to-end flow of business value in large-scale application delivery using Blueprint Storyteller and Tasktop Hub
Enable High-performance and Strategic Capabilities with Flow MetricsTasktop
To remain relevant amid increasing market disruption, organizations have no choice but to compress their software delivery timelines to deliver features customers want, faster.
Frequently, tactical decisions are made to add people, invest in more tools, and increase the amount of work in teams’ backlogs without achieving the desired results. Agile transformations introduce methodologies and frameworks without the appropriate support mechanisms for success. To enable high performance and inform strategic decisions, organizations need a new foundation.
During this on-demand webinar, Tasktop Flow Framework Engagement Manager, Kristen Biddulph, presents how Flow Metrics provide that foundation, irrespective of methodology or framework, by surfacing end-to-end data on an organization’s flow of work, providing insights that will help them meet their goals.
Flow Metrics: An MRI of your Product Value StreamsTasktop
IT within large enterprises can span vast and complex business portfolios, with numerous external and internal-facing products and their domains. The delivery and maintenance of these products is supported by a network of tools, teams, technologies and processes, all with their own unique variants. The primary goal of the shift to a product-oriented model is to increase business agility and to satisfy the diverse and ever-changing needs of the customer. Organizations must react quickly to customer needs to accelerate the flow of business value from ideation to operation. However, the way the work is traced and measured is slowing down the time to value.
This lack of visibility makes it impossible to know if value is accelerating, time-to-value is getting shorter, waste is decreasing, value work is prioritized and whether demand is outweighing capacity. By automating and visualizing the flow of work and abstracting the end-to-end data across the toolchain underpinning your product value streams, you can get an MRI of your product’s health to help answer those questions and take informed action before it’s too late.
During this on-demand webinar, Tasktop Senior Flow Advisor, Laksh Ranganathan, presents how the Flow Framework™ and Flow Metrics can help organizations make work within product value streams visible and create a data-driven blueprint for scaled success across a portfolio of products.
Project To Product: How we transitioned to product-aligned value streamsTasktop
The project to product movement is quickly gathering speed - a recent Gartner report found that 85% of respondents are shifting to a product-centric mentality. However, the complexity and uncertainty of software delivery at scale, coupled with the sheer number of people involved in the process, is too much for traditional project management techniques. Motivation is not enough to achieve a successful transformation—the product-centric model requires new skill sets, different investments and a change in culture.
What does the shift away from project-thinking really look like?
During this webinar, Tasktop VP of Product Development, Nicole Bryan, combines our own journey with the experience of working with our enterprise customers, to paint a clear picture of the cross-organizational challenges in store - and how you can address them by:
- Adopting a “customer-first” mindset
- Appointing a Product Value Stream Lead and a Product Manager
- Implementing the Flow Framework™ to align the language of IT with the language of the business
Value Stream Architecture: What it is and how it can helpTasktop
Modern enterprises increasingly rely on software to keep the lights on and lay the foundations for long-term sustainable growth. Among many things, IT leaders are tasked with accelerating the time to value of their software delivery value streams.
But when asked, “Do you know what is slowing your software delivery teams down?”, why do IT leaders typically not know the answer?
Methodologies such as Agile and DevOps have been adopted to accelerate the time between build to deploy, yet the benefits are often only felt at a localized level (more sprints completed, higher number of deployments etc.) without a tangible link to business outcomes. Enter Value Stream Architecture.
During this webinar, Senior Value Stream Architect, Dan Feminella, presents:
- The business case for Value Stream Architecture
- Why your organization needs it in order to scale Agile and DevOps
- How to architect for end-to-end flow of business value from customer request to delivery and back through the customer feedback loop
Why Digital Transformations are Failing at ScaleTasktop
During this webinar guest speaker, Forrester VP, Principal Analyst, Diego Lo Giudice, and Tasktop CEO, Dr. Mik Kersten, present their research on why transformations are failing at scale and how a product value stream approach enables organizations to survive and thrive in the age of digital disruption.
How to Integrate Multiple Jira Instances to Improve Collaboration, Visibility...Tasktop
There is no denying that Jira has taken over the developer space. Most developers only want to use Jira, and many organizations are taking advantage of the flexibility of Jira by making it their single source of truth for all software delivery teams.
If Jira is your single source of truth, it’s easy to believe you don’t need to connect to the rest of your value stream. But what about when you have multiple Jira instances across Jira, Jira Cloud and Data Center? The truth is, in order to ensure cross-team visibility, traceability and overarching reporting, you don’t need to look past Jira for the need to integrate.
This on-demand webinar discusses and demonstrates why you need to integrate your Jira instances to:
- Increase collaboration and reduce informal handovers
- Automate information flow to enable traceability across multiple Jira system
- Seamlessly accommodate organization change (mergers, acquisitions, reorgs), minimizing team disruptions
- Centralize fragmented data in a reporting database to identify bottlenecks
Future proof your jira integrations and avoid api change panicTasktop
Does the Jira API change leave you vulnerable to disruption?
If you’re connecting Jira to the rest of your software delivery toolchain, Atlassian’s new approach to user identification could mean a major headache. What happens to all of the integrations you’ve set up when the API change goes into effect on April 29th?
Join Tasktop to learn more about what’s changing and see how you can keep product-critical data flowing between teams with Value Stream Integration.
Making Connections Visible: How to Defrag your Value Stream | Tasktop Connect...Tasktop
How many different siloes is your organization at the mercy of? How much time theft occurs from chasing down data in separate systems? Measuring performance is a challenge when work is disconnected.
Connecting missing links in the flow of work reveals the elusive big picture. This talk addresses the challenges of a fragmented value stream and provides guidance on how to improve your organizations performance with connectivity.
Dominica DeGrandis
Director, Digital Transformation - Tasktop
Dominica DeGrandis is Director of Digital Transformation at Tasktop, where she helps customers improve the flow of work across value streams. Responsible for introducing customers to flow-based aspects of digital transformation, she guides IT teams and business teams to understand and adopt new ways of working to improve performance.
Dominica is the author of “Making Work Visible: Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work & Flow.” She is a huge fan of using visual cues to inspire change and spur alignment across organizations. She lives in Seattle with her husband and extended family. She blogs at tasktop.com and ddegrandis.com. Follow her on twitter @dominicad
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First Line Of Defense: How contractors can become software factories to suppo...Tasktop
2018 was a big year for the Department of Defense. The DoD Science Board put out a report with recommendations that represented a pivot in how the government wants to do business in the future. The goal is to get products and services out faster to the war fighter without sacrificing quality or increasing cost. Based on government research into successful programs they recommended the following:
Software Factory
Continuous Iterative Development
Risk Reduction and Metrics for new programs
Task PM’s with programs in dev, prod, and sustainment to transition
Build workforce competency
Software is Immortal specify software frameworks
Independent Verification & Validation for Machine Learning
Robin Yeman and Suzette Johnson will discuss how government contractors are getting ready to support the DoD in their mission. The development of the Software Factory will be key to success.
Robin Yeman, Lockheed Martin Fellow - Lockheed Martin
Suzette Johnson, NG Fellow - Northrop Grumman
First Line Of Defense: How contractors can become software factories to suppo...
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