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.
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.
Tasktop CEO, Mik Kersten, and Nationwide Technology Director, Carmen DeArdo, present the case for Value Stream Architecture at DevOps Enterprise Summit 2017.
Digital Transformation Success with Value Stream ManagementLance Knight
In the digital era, CIOs are under pressure to create greater value for customers through innovation, while reducing time to market, improving quality and increasing efficiency. Agile and DevOps are key digital transformation practices employed by enterprises to modernize their application delivery, but these are not enough to prove that their transformation is delivering real value that can be measured and optimized. Practicing an approach that brings end-to-end value streams together is a key success factor
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.
Improve regression test effectiveness with defect detection percentage (ddp)Tasktop
Learn the fundamentals to calculating how effective your team is at finding bugs in your software. Using ServiceNow and Micro Focus ALM to demonstrate, we’ll show you how to automate the flow of information between your ALM and ITSM tools to monitor DDP in real time.
Synchronizing incidents to your defect tracking tool is imperative if you want to perform root cause analysis to identify what regression test case “should have” trapped the defect during your last round of regression testing and trace it back.
We’ll show you how this integration allows you to:
Monitor your testing teams’ effectiveness in real time
Demonstrate and improve regression test coverage
Protect production environments with early trend detection
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
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.
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.
Tasktop CEO, Mik Kersten, and Nationwide Technology Director, Carmen DeArdo, present the case for Value Stream Architecture at DevOps Enterprise Summit 2017.
Digital Transformation Success with Value Stream ManagementLance Knight
In the digital era, CIOs are under pressure to create greater value for customers through innovation, while reducing time to market, improving quality and increasing efficiency. Agile and DevOps are key digital transformation practices employed by enterprises to modernize their application delivery, but these are not enough to prove that their transformation is delivering real value that can be measured and optimized. Practicing an approach that brings end-to-end value streams together is a key success factor
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.
Improve regression test effectiveness with defect detection percentage (ddp)Tasktop
Learn the fundamentals to calculating how effective your team is at finding bugs in your software. Using ServiceNow and Micro Focus ALM to demonstrate, we’ll show you how to automate the flow of information between your ALM and ITSM tools to monitor DDP in real time.
Synchronizing incidents to your defect tracking tool is imperative if you want to perform root cause analysis to identify what regression test case “should have” trapped the defect during your last round of regression testing and trace it back.
We’ll show you how this integration allows you to:
Monitor your testing teams’ effectiveness in real time
Demonstrate and improve regression test coverage
Protect production environments with early trend detection
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
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.
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.
Making Work Product-Centric: A Journey at Nationwide Insurance | Tasktop Conn...Tasktop
Over the last 18 months, Enterprise Digital at Nationwide Insurance experimented with an end to end agile approach to better integrate IT delivery and business activities in the commercial and mobile spaces. Customers are demanding products quicker, and we as a company must find ways to compress the timeline required to deliver the features customers seek to remain competitive. At the end of the second phase of this transition, which comprised just one team, we found a 64% decrease in lead time from discovery to analysis and a 20% decrease in lead time from analysis to implementation. This end to end model stressed co-location of business and IT and working together as one cross-functional team to continuously plan, integrate, and deliver value to our customers. We made the value stream work visible from idea to implementation and organized it in product-centric value streams with the goal of standardizing customer experiences regardless of whether the customer is interacting with our company via web or mobile. This standardization allowed for maximum reusability of requirements, code, and automation, and decreased variances with and the frequency of estimating. In the end to end model, poly-skilling was stressed across both roles and technologies so that all team members had the flexibility to pick up and work on any card at any point in the flow. This, coupled with the team’s use of the tools necessary to implement dev ops capabilities, allowed us to be more responsive to the customer.
Kristen Biddulph
Scrum Master, CSM, CSPO, CAL1 - Nationwide Insurance
Kristen has led software delivery teams over the last 4 years across Nationwide’s Digital assets for Sales, Identity Management, Servicing, and Mobile. Her current focus is on providing solutions to aid high performance teams in their product-centric journeys.
Tasktop Connect 2018
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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.
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.
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.
What is Value Stream Management and why do you need it?Tasktop
Agile has provided a framework for shortening iterations and adapting to ever changing requirements. DevOps established practices for automating the software delivery pipeline. While these methods are becoming standard practices in building software, scaling these concepts is problematic. That’s where Value Stream Management (VSM) comes in.
During this webinar, Senior VSM Strategist, Carmen DeArdo, discusses:
- What is Value Stream Management and why you need it
- How to architect your delivery pipeline for end-to-end flow and delivery speed
- Why moving from a project to product approach is critical to survive in the age of digital disruption
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.
Flow Metrics: What They Are & Why You Need ThemTasktop
When it comes to assessing an IT transformation (such as Agile and DevOps), performance metrics have come under intense scrutiny. Traditional performance metrics, such as counting the number of lines of code and the number of software bugs should be used with caution, because there are bugs that are not worth fixing and code that is not worth maintaining. These old-school performance metrics represent activities, not outcomes. To visualize and optimize the business value of your software delivery, you need to find a way to measure business outcomes. To do that, we need flow metrics.
During this on-demand webinar, Dominica DeGrandis presents five key flow metrics that reveal trends on desirable business outcomes – such as faster time-to-market, responsiveness to customers, and predictable release timeframes – and explains how to implement them at your organization to measure and improve the impact and value of software products on your business.
A Customer Success Journey Moving From Tasktop Sync to Tasktop Integration Hu...Tasktop
TIAA fully invested in Tasktop Integration Hub with 5 new integrations in February 2018 and also recently migrated 3 integrations from Sync to Hub. During this session, I will share our journey with Hub from original reluctance to switch from Sync to eager adoption after seeing it in action last October. I plan to share our redeployment story, the benefits of Hub, and of course share my technical tips and tricks! I’ve done some interesting work with extensions and the home grown error facility I built that either fixes errors or reports them from the errors retrieved using the Hub API. I’m also looking at performing automated testing of our integrations against new versions of Hub so that I can validate and adopt new Hub features much faster.
Mark Ford
Lead Developer | Global Corporate Solutions Technology (GCST) - TIAA
As a Tasktop Hub administrator I'm always looking for ways to extend Tasktop Hub by developing dynamic extensions and utilities that export/import integrations, improve SDLC processes by synchronizing data between various software products, and reducing our overhead costs.
As a Micro Focus ALM/Quality Center administrator I'm also looking for new ways to provide a better end user experience for our QA users. This includes: implementing better procedures to perform consistent and repeatable template updates with faster turnaround, better access to reporting data, decentralized administration facilities, and tools to help our ALM support staff do their job more effectively.
As a Vivit Board of Director I look for ways to bring more value to the investments in Micro Focus Software for the more than 40,000 Vivit members around the world.
As a Vivit Carolinas co-chapter leader I look for ways to bring value to the other Vivit Carolinas chapter members through chapter events, webinars, and round tables.
Tasktop Connect 2018
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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.
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
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
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
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.
Value Stream Management and the Next Decade of DevOpsDevOps.com
As DevOps enters its second decade, it’s time to re-evaluate your strategy.
Organizations can easily fall into the trap of settling for “good enough” because measuring productivity and flow across varying teams and systems is challenging. That’s where value stream management comes in.
Join HCL UrbanCode leaders, Brian Muskoff and Steve Boone, for a conversation about scaling your DevOps strategy by focusing on data and culture through value stream management. In this webinar, we’ll cover:
What is value stream management and how it works in a DevOps culture
How to harvest opportunity from your DevOps pain points
The resources you need to successfully implement a value stream management approach
This webinar is especially beneficial for technology executives, transformation leaders and DevOps managers who are responsible for their DevOps strategic direction.
Improving ALM, PPM, and Service Delivery Through a Single Pane of Glass | Tas...Tasktop
As an IT professional, prioritizing demand while delivering exemplary customer service is always the expectation. However, completing project work, fulfilling customer requests and mitigating service interruptions while making sure that leadership is informed and nothing slips through the cracks can be daunting. In this session, attendees will learn about Select Medical's journey to implement an automated, integrated toolchain for Service Delivery, Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), and DevOps using Tasktop at the core.
Jeff Zahorchak
Manager, Enterprise Applications - Select Medical
Jeff Zahorchak is a seasoned IT professional with over 14 years of industry experience. He has worked in various roles within enterprise architecture, application design and development, DevOps, infrastructure, virtualization and application performance tuning. Jeff is currently leading a cross-functional group of specialized technologists to enable organizational change. His
teams support enterprise collaboration, database technologies, Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and DevOps, and IT Service Management (ITSM) across the enterprise. He previously worked as a IT consultant for over 10 years, providing scalable solutions to state and federal government projects.
Tasktop Connect 2018
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Optimizing Innovation: Modular Toolchains that Enable Digital TransformationsDevOps.com
Lean practices for software delivery are critical to digital transformation and innovation, and the failure to execute on them opens the door to disruption. Software investment and staffing decisions are made anecdotally, using static and stale slivers of data. But what if we could take an fMRI (Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) of the organization and see the flow of business value in real-time? See evidence of bottlenecks and use them to prioritize IT investment? Join us as we introduce the concept of Value Stream Networks and explain how to create a modular framework enabling end-to-end business value flow, at any scale.
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.
Making Work Product-Centric: A Journey at Nationwide Insurance | Tasktop Conn...Tasktop
Over the last 18 months, Enterprise Digital at Nationwide Insurance experimented with an end to end agile approach to better integrate IT delivery and business activities in the commercial and mobile spaces. Customers are demanding products quicker, and we as a company must find ways to compress the timeline required to deliver the features customers seek to remain competitive. At the end of the second phase of this transition, which comprised just one team, we found a 64% decrease in lead time from discovery to analysis and a 20% decrease in lead time from analysis to implementation. This end to end model stressed co-location of business and IT and working together as one cross-functional team to continuously plan, integrate, and deliver value to our customers. We made the value stream work visible from idea to implementation and organized it in product-centric value streams with the goal of standardizing customer experiences regardless of whether the customer is interacting with our company via web or mobile. This standardization allowed for maximum reusability of requirements, code, and automation, and decreased variances with and the frequency of estimating. In the end to end model, poly-skilling was stressed across both roles and technologies so that all team members had the flexibility to pick up and work on any card at any point in the flow. This, coupled with the team’s use of the tools necessary to implement dev ops capabilities, allowed us to be more responsive to the customer.
Kristen Biddulph
Scrum Master, CSM, CSPO, CAL1 - Nationwide Insurance
Kristen has led software delivery teams over the last 4 years across Nationwide’s Digital assets for Sales, Identity Management, Servicing, and Mobile. Her current focus is on providing solutions to aid high performance teams in their product-centric journeys.
Tasktop Connect 2018
connect.tasktop.com
www.tasktop.com
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.
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.
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.
What is Value Stream Management and why do you need it?Tasktop
Agile has provided a framework for shortening iterations and adapting to ever changing requirements. DevOps established practices for automating the software delivery pipeline. While these methods are becoming standard practices in building software, scaling these concepts is problematic. That’s where Value Stream Management (VSM) comes in.
During this webinar, Senior VSM Strategist, Carmen DeArdo, discusses:
- What is Value Stream Management and why you need it
- How to architect your delivery pipeline for end-to-end flow and delivery speed
- Why moving from a project to product approach is critical to survive in the age of digital disruption
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.
Flow Metrics: What They Are & Why You Need ThemTasktop
When it comes to assessing an IT transformation (such as Agile and DevOps), performance metrics have come under intense scrutiny. Traditional performance metrics, such as counting the number of lines of code and the number of software bugs should be used with caution, because there are bugs that are not worth fixing and code that is not worth maintaining. These old-school performance metrics represent activities, not outcomes. To visualize and optimize the business value of your software delivery, you need to find a way to measure business outcomes. To do that, we need flow metrics.
During this on-demand webinar, Dominica DeGrandis presents five key flow metrics that reveal trends on desirable business outcomes – such as faster time-to-market, responsiveness to customers, and predictable release timeframes – and explains how to implement them at your organization to measure and improve the impact and value of software products on your business.
A Customer Success Journey Moving From Tasktop Sync to Tasktop Integration Hu...Tasktop
TIAA fully invested in Tasktop Integration Hub with 5 new integrations in February 2018 and also recently migrated 3 integrations from Sync to Hub. During this session, I will share our journey with Hub from original reluctance to switch from Sync to eager adoption after seeing it in action last October. I plan to share our redeployment story, the benefits of Hub, and of course share my technical tips and tricks! I’ve done some interesting work with extensions and the home grown error facility I built that either fixes errors or reports them from the errors retrieved using the Hub API. I’m also looking at performing automated testing of our integrations against new versions of Hub so that I can validate and adopt new Hub features much faster.
Mark Ford
Lead Developer | Global Corporate Solutions Technology (GCST) - TIAA
As a Tasktop Hub administrator I'm always looking for ways to extend Tasktop Hub by developing dynamic extensions and utilities that export/import integrations, improve SDLC processes by synchronizing data between various software products, and reducing our overhead costs.
As a Micro Focus ALM/Quality Center administrator I'm also looking for new ways to provide a better end user experience for our QA users. This includes: implementing better procedures to perform consistent and repeatable template updates with faster turnaround, better access to reporting data, decentralized administration facilities, and tools to help our ALM support staff do their job more effectively.
As a Vivit Board of Director I look for ways to bring more value to the investments in Micro Focus Software for the more than 40,000 Vivit members around the world.
As a Vivit Carolinas co-chapter leader I look for ways to bring value to the other Vivit Carolinas chapter members through chapter events, webinars, and round tables.
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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.
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
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
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
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.
Value Stream Management and the Next Decade of DevOpsDevOps.com
As DevOps enters its second decade, it’s time to re-evaluate your strategy.
Organizations can easily fall into the trap of settling for “good enough” because measuring productivity and flow across varying teams and systems is challenging. That’s where value stream management comes in.
Join HCL UrbanCode leaders, Brian Muskoff and Steve Boone, for a conversation about scaling your DevOps strategy by focusing on data and culture through value stream management. In this webinar, we’ll cover:
What is value stream management and how it works in a DevOps culture
How to harvest opportunity from your DevOps pain points
The resources you need to successfully implement a value stream management approach
This webinar is especially beneficial for technology executives, transformation leaders and DevOps managers who are responsible for their DevOps strategic direction.
Improving ALM, PPM, and Service Delivery Through a Single Pane of Glass | Tas...Tasktop
As an IT professional, prioritizing demand while delivering exemplary customer service is always the expectation. However, completing project work, fulfilling customer requests and mitigating service interruptions while making sure that leadership is informed and nothing slips through the cracks can be daunting. In this session, attendees will learn about Select Medical's journey to implement an automated, integrated toolchain for Service Delivery, Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), and DevOps using Tasktop at the core.
Jeff Zahorchak
Manager, Enterprise Applications - Select Medical
Jeff Zahorchak is a seasoned IT professional with over 14 years of industry experience. He has worked in various roles within enterprise architecture, application design and development, DevOps, infrastructure, virtualization and application performance tuning. Jeff is currently leading a cross-functional group of specialized technologists to enable organizational change. His
teams support enterprise collaboration, database technologies, Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and DevOps, and IT Service Management (ITSM) across the enterprise. He previously worked as a IT consultant for over 10 years, providing scalable solutions to state and federal government projects.
Tasktop Connect 2018
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Optimizing Innovation: Modular Toolchains that Enable Digital TransformationsDevOps.com
Lean practices for software delivery are critical to digital transformation and innovation, and the failure to execute on them opens the door to disruption. Software investment and staffing decisions are made anecdotally, using static and stale slivers of data. But what if we could take an fMRI (Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) of the organization and see the flow of business value in real-time? See evidence of bottlenecks and use them to prioritize IT investment? Join us as we introduce the concept of Value Stream Networks and explain how to create a modular framework enabling end-to-end business value flow, at any scale.
Optimizing Innovation- Modular Toolchains that Enable Digital TransformationsTasktop
Lean practices for software delivery are critical to digital transformation and innovation, and the failure to execute on them opens the door to disruption. Software investment and staffing decisions are made anecdotally, using static and stale slivers of data. But what if we could take an fMRI (Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) of the organization and see the flow of business value in real-time? See evidence of bottlenecks and use them to prioritize IT investment? Join us as we introduce the concept of Value Stream Networks and explain how to create a modular framework enabling end-to-end business value flow, at any scale.
Everything You Need to Build a Risk-Based Testing Strategy for SAPWorksoft
SAP testing isn’t easy. Organizations are challenged to keep pace with an incredible (and growing) volume of enhancements, updates, upgrades, and new apps. But traditional SAP impact analysis is time consuming, costly, and difficult to manage. That’s why the world’s top companies are turning to risk-based testing. Here’s how you can get started too.
Topics including: The transformative value of real-time data and analytics, and current barriers to adoption. The importance of an end-to-end solution for data-in-motion that includes ingestion, processing, and serving. Apache Kudu’s role in simplifying real-time architectures.
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.
Achieving Agile in the Enterprise From dream to realitypanayaofficial
Join this webinar with Panaya David Binny and our Forrester guest speaker Diego Lo Giudice, Vice President, Principal Analyst serving Application Development & Delivery Professionals to hear about the latest industry trends and best practices in achieving Enterprise Agile Delivery at scale, how business enterprise applications can deliver in an Agile way too
Deep Dive into Pivotal Cloud Foundry 2.0VMware Tanzu
SpringOne Platform 2017
Jeffrey Hammond, Forrester; Richard Seroter, Pivotal
Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) is the enterprise platform of choice for cloud-native apps. With the release of PCF 2.0, the platform undergoes its biggest change ever. In this session, learn all about the latest release of PCF and all the major new capabilities that power your transformation. This is the place to learn all about Pivotal vision for the future of the platform.
We explore new techniques for selecting and tracking value-driven KPIs. The ResultsPositive team has years of experience building custom dashboards that emphasize and leverage key business metrics. These “business value dashboard” solutions can solve pressing visibility and workflow challenges, illuminating new opportunities for improvement. Enable informed decision making with unfettered insight and visualization into your ongoing business processes. By using the data you’ve already collected, you can create a more productive pipeline. In this webinar we will be presenting:
Overview of how business value dashboards consolidate and surface key metrics.
Customer Examples of successfully implemented dashboards:
Large Utility Corporation – Network and Distribution Dashboard
One of America’s largest food companies and leading distributors – Realtime distribution center status
ResultsPositive’s BVD-specific offerings and best practices.
Data governance and discoverability at AO.com | Jon Vines, AO.com and Christo...HostedbyConfluent
One challenge of widespread adoption of any technology within an organisation is balancing organic growth and maintaining standards and best practice. At AO.com - one of the UK's largest online electrical retailers - we’ve invested in tooling to simplify application onboarding into the event processing platform. This includes creating topics, defining access to the platform and supporting our governance functions.
A key part of any data function is data governance and discoverability. Through standardised definitions of Kafka topics and use of Avro schemas, we can map which topics exist, what data they contain and who has access to them. This allows us to support multiple cross-functional teams using automatic data gathering.
In this session, AO.com and Confluent Professional Services will share how we tackled the challenge of platform adoption and provide hands-on examples of the open-source tools, ""Kafka Clusterstate Tools"" and ""Kafka Streams Inspector"", we developed.
Critical steps in Determining Your Value Stream Management SolutionDevOps.com
In order to increase your delivery velocity, you must find, identify and solve the bottlenecks of delivery. Value Stream management solutions capture metrics and processes helping guide your digital transformation journey.
Join Marc Hornbeek, Principal Consultant and Jeff Keyes from Plutora where they will discuss a methodology determining a value stream management solution for your organization. It will consist of critical steps including a Review of VSM Assessments, Future-State Value Stream Mapping, Road-Mapping VSM Transformation, and more. Following these steps provide a logical and comprehensive approach to determine a value stream management solution that fits for your organization’s requirements.
What will be learned:
WHY – is following steps for determining a VSM solution important?
HOW – are VSM solutions determined?
WHAT – is the expected outcome of a Value Stream Management solution recommendation?
Monitor and Measure Your Way to Successful Digital TransformationVMware Tanzu
Measuring and showing progress is critical to drive technology adoption and ensure the success of your modernization effort. A wise customer once said, “If you thought getting people to believe digital transformation is possible was tough, wait until you try and convince people that you actually accomplished successful transformation.”
Most people can relate! What is the language that describes digital transformation success? What are the success metrics of digital transformation that enterprises care deeply about? How does one know they are headed in the right direction?
In this webinar, Pivotal and New Relic will cover how your teams can do the following:
- Use lean principles and practices as applied to enterprise software delivery to measure transformation impact
- Easily create dashboards to monitor business and strategic value delivered at every phase of your digital transformation journey
- Ensure your entire stack—including infrastructure, cloud platform, applications, containers, and services—is tracking toward goals
Speakers:
Rajagopal Ramanujam, Director, Global Strategic Alliances, New Relic
Bharat Raj, Technical Leader, Digital Intelligence, New Relic
Kamala Dasika, GTM Lead for PCF Technology Partners, Pivotal
Navigating the Workday Analytics and Reporting EcosystemWorkday, Inc.
Learn how to maximize the reporting and analytics capability in Workday for finance and HR teams. This slide deck dives into the functionality of Workday Prism Analytics and Workday People Analytics.
Using Lean Thinking to Identify and Address Delivery Pipeline BottlenecksIBM UrbanCode Products
Inefficient software delivery impacts the entire business, from line of business units, to operations, to development and test, and the variety of suppliers.
Wastes in your processes are causing bottlenecks.
Join Eric Minick, IBM DevOps Evangelist (and UrbanCode guy), as he explores how ‘Lean Thinking’ techniques can be leveraged to help identify ‘bottlenecks’ in your delivery pipeline that can be addressed by adopting DevOps.
Modern Business Intelligence - Design and ImplementationsDavid J Rosenthal
During the first two “waves” of business intelligence, IT professionals and business analysts were the keepers of BI. They made BI accessible and consumable for end users.
While this approach still applies to complex business intelligence needs, today there is a new “wave.” This third wave of BI makes BI available to every kind of user.
As customer strive to take advantage of the digital transformation that is occurring in virtually every industry, they need to re-evaluate how they engage with their customers/prospects, how they transform their products and operations, and how they empower and understand their employees.
In today’s world, doing each of these things is more and more reliant upon data…traditionally, everything you knew about your customers and prospects was available in your business application systems and in the heads of employees. You learned almost everything about your products BEFORE they left your warehouse. Employees used technology more to enter data than to learn from it.
In the data-driven world we live in today, leveraging intelligent insights from data across customers, products, and employees is critical to be able to stay competitive and keep up with or lead digital transformation in any industry. And this isn’t just a customer’s typical business application data – it’s also about augmenting the customer’s data with additional data (e.g. search, employee behavioral data, sentiment data, benchmark data, etc..) – and applying the right intelligence to drive meaningful insights.
Cloud Migration: Azure acceleration with CAST HighlightCAST
Learn how to accelerate your cloud migration: https://www.castsoftware.com/use-cases/cloud-readiness-and-migration
Cloud migration is table stakes for digital transformation initiatives. The driving factors to get to the cloud vary from organization to organization...for some, it's about cost savings and for others, it's about creating smarter apps that support continuous innovation.
IaaS – For organizations looking to reduce costs, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is a great option. IaaS is sometimes described as "Lift and Shift" – when applications are moved from an existing infrastructure to a cloud infrastructure. This helps save money by reducing the hardware needed to run those applications and providing flexibility to adjust infrastructure requirements on-demand.
PaaS – For organizations looking for smarter deployments that facilitate digital transformation, streamline the delivery of new feature and support emerging technologies like IoT and Machine Learning, Platform as a Service (PaaS) is a more suitable option. While a considerable percentage of new application development is done with a cloud-first mentality, most legacy software is not optimized for a cloud environment.
So now the question becomes, how do I get my existing application portfolios ready for cloud migration so I can take full advantage of new technologies and processes
Software Intelligence-Based Cloud Readiness
So you’re ready for PaaS, but before you begin to assess the technical and structural requirements of the migration, you must also determine the business drivers for cloud and the desired outcomes. Setting a cloud migration roadmap that is based on comprehensive Software Intelligence that considers both business drivers and technical features of your applications is a critical first step.
Learn how to accelerate your cloud migration: https://www.castsoftware.com/use-cases/cloud-readiness-and-migration
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
Tasktop Connect 2018
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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
7 Reasons Why Value Stream Integration Improves Software Quality assuranceTasktop
Key takeaways from this webinar include:
- How to elevate the “QA Brand” in your organization with Value Stream Integration
- How to improve your Defect Detection Effectiveness (DDE) by understanding 2 key principles
- Techniques to drive effective change impact analysis, control, and management of changes
- How to improve automated test coverage with real-time feedback loops
- Why “swimming upstream” creates high quality software
- How to eliminate the “Ping Pong Effect” and achieve lasting developer & tester alignment
- Debunking the “One-Size-Fits-All” trend to platforms, governance, and Testing Centers of Excellence
All the buzz today is on DevOps, accelerating commit to release time, and scaling Agile. Sure, that’s important stuff – but where does Quality Assurance (QA) fit into this picture? An award-winning recipe contains a specific set of ingredients, otherwise the final product just doesn’t taste right. QA Leaders are now recognizing the vital importance of Value Stream Integration (VSI) as a key ingredient in their cake batter.
In this presentation, we break down 7 key reasons why VSI will inherently improve the effectiveness of your QA and Testing practice. Inspired by Matt Angerer’s trials and tribulations as a Program Testing Consultant for over 8 vertical markets and 10 end-to-end SAP implementations, this presentation is a no-nonsense action-packed roadmap to understanding VSI. You’ll learn how to immediately apply this knowledge to champion cross-functional initiatives that revolutionize how you deliver and protect software quality for lasting results.
Mind the Gap: Bridging the Divide Between the Business and Agile/DevOps Teams...Tasktop
Software delivery organizations have transformed the way they develop and deliver software, adopting Agile and DevOps practices to help them achieve ambitious business targets. But as more teams see success with these methods, they’re finding that there’s a disconnect keeping them from reaching their full potential.
Join us as featured guest Chris Condo, Sr. Analyst at Forrester discusses findings from their recent report on value stream management and how organizations are bridging the gap between the business and their Agile and DevOps teams to maintain their competitive edge.
We’ll discuss how adopting value stream management enables IT leadership to:
* Track the flow of work across the entire lifecycle, from ideation to production and back through feedback loops
* Get beyond localized optimization to measure and improve the speed at which functionality is being delivered to customers
* Relate value stream delivery to business objectives like revenue and customer retention
Scrum with value streams - Can you finally get rid of waterfall thinking?Tasktop
Increasingly, DevOps is encouraging organizations to think holistically about the value streams of delivery. Make work visible and look to reduce waste. But agile and Scrum has taught us that complex problems require teams to self-organize, to 'scrum' to make progress. Does that mean that the value streams are continually changing? Does that mean that when you introduce value streams you remove the ability of the Scrum team to self-organize?
In this talk, Dave West Product Owner and CEO of Scrum.org and Mik Kersten CEO of Tasktop discuss the challenges of introducing value streams to a Scrum world and how you can balance flexibility with the structure to enable better flow and deliver more value to customers. They will discuss how to avoid Value-Waterfall-Stream to make sure your stream doesn't become a waterfall and provide a list of potential warning signs for when the process of value streams has become a way of re-introducing traditional waterfall thinking to your product delivery process.
Calendars for Humans - How to Undo the All-Day CramTasktop
In this webinar, Dominica addresses the too-many-meetings problem and provides actionable takeaways to help you optimize your time. Come learn how to influence the boss and get buy-in to improve your team’s capacity to get real work done.
Customer Insights: 11 Tool Integration Patterns to Speed DeliveryTasktop
In an analysis of over 300 software delivery organizations we found that high performing IT organizations realize the value of end-to-end process automation beyond the CI/CD pipeline.
Watch to learn:
- How IT tool integration accelerates enterprise software delivery
- How to implement 11 popular tool integration patterns
- Strategies to reach integration maturity through chained integration patterns
We’ll share the results of an analysis of 1,000 tool integrations, including how IT organizations are putting in place sophisticated integration infrastructure layer to automate the flow of work from ideation to production and back through feedback loops.
Providing Globus Services to Users of JASMIN for Environmental Data AnalysisGlobus
JASMIN is the UK’s high-performance data analysis platform for environmental science, operated by STFC on behalf of the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). In addition to its role in hosting the CEDA Archive (NERC’s long-term repository for climate, atmospheric science & Earth observation data in the UK), JASMIN provides a collaborative platform to a community of around 2,000 scientists in the UK and beyond, providing nearly 400 environmental science projects with working space, compute resources and tools to facilitate their work. High-performance data transfer into and out of JASMIN has always been a key feature, with many scientists bringing model outputs from supercomputers elsewhere in the UK, to analyse against observational or other model data in the CEDA Archive. A growing number of JASMIN users are now realising the benefits of using the Globus service to provide reliable and efficient data movement and other tasks in this and other contexts. Further use cases involve long-distance (intercontinental) transfers to and from JASMIN, and collecting results from a mobile atmospheric radar system, pushing data to JASMIN via a lightweight Globus deployment. We provide details of how Globus fits into our current infrastructure, our experience of the recent migration to GCSv5.4, and of our interest in developing use of the wider ecosystem of Globus services for the benefit of our user community.
Listen to the keynote address and hear about the latest developments from Rachana Ananthakrishnan and Ian Foster who review the updates to the Globus Platform and Service, and the relevance of Globus to the scientific community as an automation platform to accelerate scientific discovery.
Globus Compute wth IRI Workflows - GlobusWorld 2024Globus
As part of the DOE Integrated Research Infrastructure (IRI) program, NERSC at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and ALCF at Argonne National Lab are working closely with General Atomics on accelerating the computing requirements of the DIII-D experiment. As part of the work the team is investigating ways to speedup the time to solution for many different parts of the DIII-D workflow including how they run jobs on HPC systems. One of these routes is looking at Globus Compute as a way to replace the current method for managing tasks and we describe a brief proof of concept showing how Globus Compute could help to schedule jobs and be a tool to connect compute at different facilities.
We describe the deployment and use of Globus Compute for remote computation. This content is aimed at researchers who wish to compute on remote resources using a unified programming interface, as well as system administrators who will deploy and operate Globus Compute services on their research computing infrastructure.
Your Digital Assistant.
Making complex approach simple. Straightforward process saves time. No more waiting to connect with people that matter to you. Safety first is not a cliché - Securely protect information in cloud storage to prevent any third party from accessing data.
Would you rather make your visitors feel burdened by making them wait? Or choose VizMan for a stress-free experience? VizMan is an automated visitor management system that works for any industries not limited to factories, societies, government institutes, and warehouses. A new age contactless way of logging information of visitors, employees, packages, and vehicles. VizMan is a digital logbook so it deters unnecessary use of paper or space since there is no requirement of bundles of registers that is left to collect dust in a corner of a room. Visitor’s essential details, helps in scheduling meetings for visitors and employees, and assists in supervising the attendance of the employees. With VizMan, visitors don’t need to wait for hours in long queues. VizMan handles visitors with the value they deserve because we know time is important to you.
Feasible Features
One Subscription, Four Modules – Admin, Employee, Receptionist, and Gatekeeper ensures confidentiality and prevents data from being manipulated
User Friendly – can be easily used on Android, iOS, and Web Interface
Multiple Accessibility – Log in through any device from any place at any time
One app for all industries – a Visitor Management System that works for any organisation.
Stress-free Sign-up
Visitor is registered and checked-in by the Receptionist
Host gets a notification, where they opt to Approve the meeting
Host notifies the Receptionist of the end of the meeting
Visitor is checked-out by the Receptionist
Host enters notes and remarks of the meeting
Customizable Components
Scheduling Meetings – Host can invite visitors for meetings and also approve, reject and reschedule meetings
Single/Bulk invites – Invitations can be sent individually to a visitor or collectively to many visitors
VIP Visitors – Additional security of data for VIP visitors to avoid misuse of information
Courier Management – Keeps a check on deliveries like commodities being delivered in and out of establishments
Alerts & Notifications – Get notified on SMS, email, and application
Parking Management – Manage availability of parking space
Individual log-in – Every user has their own log-in id
Visitor/Meeting Analytics – Evaluate notes and remarks of the meeting stored in the system
Visitor Management System is a secure and user friendly database manager that records, filters, tracks the visitors to your organization.
"Secure Your Premises with VizMan (VMS) – Get It Now"
Modern design is crucial in today's digital environment, and this is especially true for SharePoint intranets. The design of these digital hubs is critical to user engagement and productivity enhancement. They are the cornerstone of internal collaboration and interaction within enterprises.
How Does XfilesPro Ensure Security While Sharing Documents in Salesforce?XfilesPro
Worried about document security while sharing them in Salesforce? Fret no more! Here are the top-notch security standards XfilesPro upholds to ensure strong security for your Salesforce documents while sharing with internal or external people.
To learn more, read the blog: https://www.xfilespro.com/how-does-xfilespro-make-document-sharing-secure-and-seamless-in-salesforce/
Field Employee Tracking System| MiTrack App| Best Employee Tracking Solution|...informapgpstrackings
Keep tabs on your field staff effortlessly with Informap Technology Centre LLC. Real-time tracking, task assignment, and smart features for efficient management. Request a live demo today!
For more details, visit us : https://informapuae.com/field-staff-tracking/
Enhancing Research Orchestration Capabilities at ORNL.pdfGlobus
Cross-facility research orchestration comes with ever-changing constraints regarding the availability and suitability of various compute and data resources. In short, a flexible data and processing fabric is needed to enable the dynamic redirection of data and compute tasks throughout the lifecycle of an experiment. In this talk, we illustrate how we easily leveraged Globus services to instrument the ACE research testbed at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility with flexible data and task orchestration capabilities.
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BoxLang is more than just a language; it's a community. By choosing a Visionary License, you're not just investing in your success, you're actively contributing to the ongoing development and support of BoxLang.
Designing for Privacy in Amazon Web ServicesKrzysztofKkol1
Data privacy is one of the most critical issues that businesses face. This presentation shares insights on the principles and best practices for ensuring the resilience and security of your workload.
Drawing on a real-life project from the HR industry, the various challenges will be demonstrated: data protection, self-healing, business continuity, security, and transparency of data processing. This systematized approach allowed to create a secure AWS cloud infrastructure that not only met strict compliance rules but also exceeded the client's expectations.
Why React Native as a Strategic Advantage for Startup Innovation.pdfayushiqss
Do you know that React Native is being increasingly adopted by startups as well as big companies in the mobile app development industry? Big names like Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest have already integrated this robust open-source framework.
In fact, according to a report by Statista, the number of React Native developers has been steadily increasing over the years, reaching an estimated 1.9 million by the end of 2024. This means that the demand for this framework in the job market has been growing making it a valuable skill.
But what makes React Native so popular for mobile application development? It offers excellent cross-platform capabilities among other benefits. This way, with React Native, developers can write code once and run it on both iOS and Android devices thus saving time and resources leading to shorter development cycles hence faster time-to-market for your app.
Let’s take the example of a startup, which wanted to release their app on both iOS and Android at once. Through the use of React Native they managed to create an app and bring it into the market within a very short period. This helped them gain an advantage over their competitors because they had access to a large user base who were able to generate revenue quickly for them.
Prosigns: Transforming Business with Tailored Technology SolutionsProsigns
Unlocking Business Potential: Tailored Technology Solutions by Prosigns
Discover how Prosigns, a leading technology solutions provider, partners with businesses to drive innovation and success. Our presentation showcases our comprehensive range of services, including custom software development, web and mobile app development, AI & ML solutions, blockchain integration, DevOps services, and Microsoft Dynamics 365 support.
Custom Software Development: Prosigns specializes in creating bespoke software solutions that cater to your unique business needs. Our team of experts works closely with you to understand your requirements and deliver tailor-made software that enhances efficiency and drives growth.
Web and Mobile App Development: From responsive websites to intuitive mobile applications, Prosigns develops cutting-edge solutions that engage users and deliver seamless experiences across devices.
AI & ML Solutions: Harnessing the power of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Prosigns provides smart solutions that automate processes, provide valuable insights, and drive informed decision-making.
Blockchain Integration: Prosigns offers comprehensive blockchain solutions, including development, integration, and consulting services, enabling businesses to leverage blockchain technology for enhanced security, transparency, and efficiency.
DevOps Services: Prosigns' DevOps services streamline development and operations processes, ensuring faster and more reliable software delivery through automation and continuous integration.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Support: Prosigns provides comprehensive support and maintenance services for Microsoft Dynamics 365, ensuring your system is always up-to-date, secure, and running smoothly.
Learn how our collaborative approach and dedication to excellence help businesses achieve their goals and stay ahead in today's digital landscape. From concept to deployment, Prosigns is your trusted partner for transforming ideas into reality and unlocking the full potential of your business.
Join us on a journey of innovation and growth. Let's partner for success with Prosigns.
Software Engineering, Software Consulting, Tech Lead.
Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Core, Spring JDBC, Spring Security,
Spring Transaction, Spring MVC,
Log4j, REST/SOAP WEB-SERVICES.
OpenFOAM solver for Helmholtz equation, helmholtzFoam / helmholtzBubbleFoamtakuyayamamoto1800
In this slide, we show the simulation example and the way to compile this solver.
In this solver, the Helmholtz equation can be solved by helmholtzFoam. Also, the Helmholtz equation with uniformly dispersed bubbles can be simulated by helmholtzBubbleFoam.
Experience our free, in-depth three-part Tendenci Platform Corporate Membership Management workshop series! In Session 1 on May 14th, 2024, we began with an Introduction and Setup, mastering the configuration of your Corporate Membership Module settings to establish membership types, applications, and more. Then, on May 16th, 2024, in Session 2, we focused on binding individual members to a Corporate Membership and Corporate Reps, teaching you how to add individual members and assign Corporate Representatives to manage dues, renewals, and associated members. Finally, on May 28th, 2024, in Session 3, we covered questions and concerns, addressing any queries or issues you may have.
For more Tendenci AMS events, check out www.tendenci.com/events
TROUBLESHOOTING 9 TYPES OF OUTOFMEMORYERRORTier1 app
Even though at surface level ‘java.lang.OutOfMemoryError’ appears as one single error; underlyingly there are 9 types of OutOfMemoryError. Each type of OutOfMemoryError has different causes, diagnosis approaches and solutions. This session equips you with the knowledge, tools, and techniques needed to troubleshoot and conquer OutOfMemoryError in all its forms, ensuring smoother, more efficient Java applications.
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Overview –Value Stream Management (VSM)
A combination of people, process, and technology that maps,
optimizes, visualizes, measures, and governs business value flow
(including epics, stories, and work items) through heterogeneous
enterprise software delivery pipelines. VSM tools are the technology
enabling the practices of VSM.
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VSM:
Map Each Step
Measure Each Step
Connect Outcomes
Source: Faster Software Delivery Will Accelerate Digital Transformation Forrester report
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VSM Control Plane
visualizes flow,
metrics, alerts, and
enables control
VSM Map, The
logical process map
and tools
VSM Data Plane
captures flow,
executes process
rules, and supports
historical and
predictive analytics
Visualization of VSM
metrics, governance
definition execution
guided by captured
data
People, Process, and
technologies mapped
out and connected via
technology or manual
steps.
Data integration of each tool in
the software delivery pipeline
and historical data capture to
track flow through the value
stream.
ConceptualView ofVSM
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Beyond value stream mapping
• Q: Is Value Stream Mapping enough?
• Q: I already have DevOps, why do I need VSM?
• Q: I already have Agile? Why VSM?
• Value Stream Management is a new discipline
• Needs new tools, new roles
• As critical to digital transformation as Value Stream
Mapping was to manufacturing
23. FlowVelocity
WHAT IS IT?
Flow velocity measures
productivity by measuring how
many flow items of each type
were completed over a time
period.
Helps understand the rate of
value delivery over time.
Flow Efficiency FlowTime Flow Load
WHAT IS IT?
Flow efficiency is a measure of
waste in a value stream,
identifying where work is
waiting.
Tracks ratio of active time vs.
wait time out of flow time. Ideal
flow efficiency is above 40%.
WHAT IS IT?
Flow time measures time to
delivery by tracking the time
from work start to work
complete.
Helps understand actual time-to-
value and become more
predictable.
WHAT IS IT?
Flow load measures work in
progress (WIP) by summing up
the number of flow items being
actively worked on.
Helps balance demand vs.
capacity and understand how
WIP impacts flow and happiness.
Flow Distribution WHAT IS IT?
Flow distribution measures de-facto distribution of the flow item types
completed over a time period. Drives prioritization discussions to align
with business outcomes.
41. “VSM complements the move to broaden our adoption of a
product-centric operating model.Years ago, there would have
been a small number of folks who identified as a product
manager, and they probably had an actuarial background.
WithVSM, we now see the value in having a product mindset
in everything we do to deliver value to customers.”
Associate VP of Lean Process Management, Large US–based Insurance Company
VSM connects software development with a product-mindset