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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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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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.
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.
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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.
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
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
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.
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.
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
Tasktop CEO, Mik Kersten, and Nationwide Technology Director, Carmen DeArdo, present the case for Value Stream Architecture at DevOps Enterprise Summit 2017.
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.
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.
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.
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In the 21st century, organisations need to
● Put the customer in the centre of our focus
● Shed outdated ways of thinking
● Embrace an agile mindset
● Incorporate new ways of working
● Leverage the pace of change for competitive advantage
This talk explores what it means to be agile in a business context. It looks at the key elements needed, how they are interwoven and what is needed for organisations to transform their thinking and behaviour into new ways of working.
Business Agility is about putting the customer at the centre of the organization’s focus, changing from measuring activities to outcomes and creating an ecosystem which unleashes the productivity and innovation already present in the people in the organisation.
Microsoft Project in Manufacturing and Resources - Presented by AtidanDavid J Rosenthal
In these demanding economic times, many executives are facing sharper scrutiny of their discretionary spending. This increases the importance of effectively identifying, selecting, and delivering product portfolios that best align with an organization’s business strategy. Best-practice portfolio selection techniques provide a handshake between value optimization — that is, alignment with business priorities and maximizing ROI — and resource utilization, meaning the understanding of resource capabilities and availability. Together, these techniques help PMOs recommend not only which product to undertake, but to forecast their delivery.
Vision
Organizations can make business strategies more objective by adopting structured techniques for defining, prioritizing, and communicating business imperatives, and consistently evaluating each competing initiative that contributes to strategic priorities. Adopting a structured portfolio selection process helps organizations accomplish the following:
Define and communicate the business strategy: Many organizations publish mission statements and high-level strategic objectives. Few of them, however, break down their strategy into actionable, measurable, and unique business drivers. Defining and effectively communicating the business strategy provides a blueprint that organizational departments can understood and implement.
Drive executive consensus around business driver priorities: Objectively prioritizing the business strategy and driving executive consensus can help your organization more effectively assess competing initiatives and select the optimal portfolio.
Objectively prioritize competing products from multiple dimensions: Prioritizing products by using a variety of value measurements (e.g., strategic value, financial value, and risk) provides a framework for assessing requests from multiple dimensions and for creating a common currency with which to make comparisons.
Identify the optimal portfolio under varying budget and portfolio constraints: Facing budget cuts or requests that exceed the allocated budget creates a daunting task for PMOs. Additional variables, such as inter-product dependencies and regulatory requirements, can further compound the problem, creating a challenge in effectively modeling scenarios that will help identify the right products for an organization to undertake. Accurately capturing realistic cost and benefit estimates for products early in their lifecycle helps executives effectively select portfolios that maximize ROI under varying budget constraints and measure financial performance during product execution.
Effectively communicate tradeoffs: Budget, available resources, dependencies, pet products, and compliance requirements can potentially affect the overall value of selected product portfolios. Being able to identify and alter constraints helps PMOs communicate tradeoffs to the executive team and enhance the potential value gained from the resulting
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.
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
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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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.
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.
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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.
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
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
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.
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.
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
Tasktop CEO, Mik Kersten, and Nationwide Technology Director, Carmen DeArdo, present the case for Value Stream Architecture at DevOps Enterprise Summit 2017.
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.
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.
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.
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In the 21st century, organisations need to
● Put the customer in the centre of our focus
● Shed outdated ways of thinking
● Embrace an agile mindset
● Incorporate new ways of working
● Leverage the pace of change for competitive advantage
This talk explores what it means to be agile in a business context. It looks at the key elements needed, how they are interwoven and what is needed for organisations to transform their thinking and behaviour into new ways of working.
Business Agility is about putting the customer at the centre of the organization’s focus, changing from measuring activities to outcomes and creating an ecosystem which unleashes the productivity and innovation already present in the people in the organisation.
Microsoft Project in Manufacturing and Resources - Presented by AtidanDavid J Rosenthal
In these demanding economic times, many executives are facing sharper scrutiny of their discretionary spending. This increases the importance of effectively identifying, selecting, and delivering product portfolios that best align with an organization’s business strategy. Best-practice portfolio selection techniques provide a handshake between value optimization — that is, alignment with business priorities and maximizing ROI — and resource utilization, meaning the understanding of resource capabilities and availability. Together, these techniques help PMOs recommend not only which product to undertake, but to forecast their delivery.
Vision
Organizations can make business strategies more objective by adopting structured techniques for defining, prioritizing, and communicating business imperatives, and consistently evaluating each competing initiative that contributes to strategic priorities. Adopting a structured portfolio selection process helps organizations accomplish the following:
Define and communicate the business strategy: Many organizations publish mission statements and high-level strategic objectives. Few of them, however, break down their strategy into actionable, measurable, and unique business drivers. Defining and effectively communicating the business strategy provides a blueprint that organizational departments can understood and implement.
Drive executive consensus around business driver priorities: Objectively prioritizing the business strategy and driving executive consensus can help your organization more effectively assess competing initiatives and select the optimal portfolio.
Objectively prioritize competing products from multiple dimensions: Prioritizing products by using a variety of value measurements (e.g., strategic value, financial value, and risk) provides a framework for assessing requests from multiple dimensions and for creating a common currency with which to make comparisons.
Identify the optimal portfolio under varying budget and portfolio constraints: Facing budget cuts or requests that exceed the allocated budget creates a daunting task for PMOs. Additional variables, such as inter-product dependencies and regulatory requirements, can further compound the problem, creating a challenge in effectively modeling scenarios that will help identify the right products for an organization to undertake. Accurately capturing realistic cost and benefit estimates for products early in their lifecycle helps executives effectively select portfolios that maximize ROI under varying budget constraints and measure financial performance during product execution.
Effectively communicate tradeoffs: Budget, available resources, dependencies, pet products, and compliance requirements can potentially affect the overall value of selected product portfolios. Being able to identify and alter constraints helps PMOs communicate tradeoffs to the executive team and enhance the potential value gained from the resulting
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?
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.
The PMO's Modern Workplace - Benefits of Moving to Project Online Mike Otranto
Everything is moving to the cloud! Project Online’s cloud-based platform provides the full capability of Project, together with SharePoint and integration with the entire Office 365 Suite. For today’s modern PMOs, making quick decisions based on real time data is critical. Agility can’t be accomplished when your project data isn’t centralized in a shared environment. Migrate in a fraction of the time and deliver project transparency to your organization for better decision making and collaboration. As your PMO evolves, so must your environment. Topics include:
• The PMO Evolution
• PMO Challenges
• ROI of Migrating to Project Online
• PMO Capabilities in Project Online
• Migration Tools for Success
• Digital PMO/Office 365/Project Online Demo
Harnessing the Atlassian Ecosystem for Agile Transformation at NextEra EnergyCprime
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As organizations become more Agile they benefit from increased engagement, transparency, visualization of work and predictable delivery. But that’s not always the case. Organizations that are yet to transition to the continuous funding of products and value streams are still delivering fixed business cases bound by time and estimated budgets, thereby foregoing many of the previously mentioned benefits.
In this webinar we’ll explore the agile transformation story at NextEra Energy and see how the PMO team leveraged an Atlassian ecosystem including Jira, Tempo Budgets, Tempo Planner, and Structure, to ensure initiatives are on track, value is delivered as committed and is measured without creating extra work, and forecasts show reduced budget variances. The team also managed to do away with lengthy Portfolio status meetings and static PowerPoint reports by replacing them with live dynamic dashboards.
Join Rogelio Martinez (NextEra Energy), Alexander Eck (Tempo), and Briana Hall (Cprime), as we showcase how to leverage the data inherent in Jira to model, forecast and track scope, financials, resource actuals and trends.
You will learn:
*How to leverage the Atlassian tool set to improve transparency, visualization of work and metrics
*How to get better insight into your business with Tempo time tracking, with reliable reports on productivity, billing & accounting
*How to transform a traditional project management into an Agile implementation
Enterprise Program and Portfolio Management in Project Online Mike Otranto
Today’s organizations are constantly trying to determine the right mix of projects to do to get the most strategic value. With limited resources and budgets, making sure that the “right” projects are in their Portfolio can help an organization maximize their investments while staying focused on their overall strategies. OnePortfolio is a great addition to Project Online. It extends the out of the box capabilities by providing you and your organization with discrete portfolio and program capabilities include portfolio dashboards.
Value stream management is essential for dev ops v4DevOps.com
Join us for a live webinar on December 13th to learn why you can’t have effective DevOps without Value Stream Management.
While DevOps provides capabilities that improve a business value stream through the implementation of culture, toolchains, orchestration and automation, DevOps alone without Value Stream Management is not sufficient to realize business benefits.
Don’t spend the time and money on DevOps alone and NOT get to reap the rewards for the business!
Attend this webinar to hear Marc Hornbeek of Trace3, and Jeff Keyes of Plutora discuss how you can leverage all of the data from your DevOps tools chains to provide real-time analytics, and codify policies that must be orchestrated to realize benefits of a business value stream.
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.
Microsoft PPM helps you deliver on business strategies through high-impact outcomes. You can think of the PPM as a lifecycle which comprises of three phases: Ideate, Plan, and Execute.
Ideate: Is the initiation phase in which ideas are collected and projects are proposed. The organization’s business drivers capture the company’s strategy and guide ideation.
Plan: This phase includes preliminary planning of the projects at a high level. Microsoft PPM helps prioritize the projects subject to budget and resourcing constraints. Once projects are approved the solution supports detailed and realistic planning.
Execute: The goal of this phase is to deliver the projects through collaboration of the involved stakeholders.
Built on Microsoft’s cloud Microsoft PPM weaves in cloud services that power the PPM solution with collaboration capabilities, advanced analytics that drive insights and the ability to customize and extend the solution to meet unique needs of your organization.
Microsoft PPM is built on Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure. This means you get enterprise-grade security and compliance, highly secure and geographically diverse data centers, and a 99.9% uptime guarantee.
MuleSoft Meetup #2 in Kyiv, Ukraine - What is special about MuleSoft Catalyst™?Maksym Dovgopolyi, PMP
MuleSoft Catalyst provides its own approach and tools to deliver on their various projects while providing a future-proof architecture that supports long-term business objectives.
MuleSoft Catalyst enables customers to adopt a unique, methodical approach to integration known as API-led connectivity.
A comprehensive methodology for the design, implementation and deployment of PLM solutions. The approach is based on insights and lessons learned from over 100 PLM implementations and 10 years of experience.
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
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.
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.
First Steps with Globus Compute Multi-User EndpointsGlobus
In this presentation we will share our experiences around getting started with the Globus Compute multi-user endpoint. Working with the Pharmacology group at the University of Auckland, we have previously written an application using Globus Compute that can offload computationally expensive steps in the researcher's workflows, which they wish to manage from their familiar Windows environments, onto the NeSI (New Zealand eScience Infrastructure) cluster. Some of the challenges we have encountered were that each researcher had to set up and manage their own single-user globus compute endpoint and that the workloads had varying resource requirements (CPUs, memory and wall time) between different runs. We hope that the multi-user endpoint will help to address these challenges and share an update on our progress here.
Large Language Models and the End of ProgrammingMatt Welsh
Talk by Matt Welsh at Craft Conference 2024 on the impact that Large Language Models will have on the future of software development. In this talk, I discuss the ways in which LLMs will impact the software industry, from replacing human software developers with AI, to replacing conventional software with models that perform reasoning, computation, and problem-solving.
How Recreation Management Software Can Streamline Your Operations.pptxwottaspaceseo
Recreation management software streamlines operations by automating key tasks such as scheduling, registration, and payment processing, reducing manual workload and errors. It provides centralized management of facilities, classes, and events, ensuring efficient resource allocation and facility usage. The software offers user-friendly online portals for easy access to bookings and program information, enhancing customer experience. Real-time reporting and data analytics deliver insights into attendance and preferences, aiding in strategic decision-making. Additionally, effective communication tools keep participants and staff informed with timely updates. Overall, recreation management software enhances efficiency, improves service delivery, and boosts customer satisfaction.
Globus Connect Server Deep Dive - GlobusWorld 2024Globus
We explore the Globus Connect Server (GCS) architecture and experiment with advanced configuration options and use cases. This content is targeted at system administrators who are familiar with GCS and currently operate—or are planning to operate—broader deployments at their institution.
Top Features to Include in Your Winzo Clone App for Business Growth (4).pptxrickgrimesss22
Discover the essential features to incorporate in your Winzo clone app to boost business growth, enhance user engagement, and drive revenue. Learn how to create a compelling gaming experience that stands out in the competitive market.
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
Gamify Your Mind; The Secret Sauce to Delivering Success, Continuously Improv...Shahin Sheidaei
Games are powerful teaching tools, fostering hands-on engagement and fun. But they require careful consideration to succeed. Join me to explore factors in running and selecting games, ensuring they serve as effective teaching tools. Learn to maintain focus on learning objectives while playing, and how to measure the ROI of gaming in education. Discover strategies for pitching gaming to leadership. This session offers insights, tips, and examples for coaches, team leads, and enterprise leaders seeking to teach from simple to complex concepts.
Paketo Buildpacks : la meilleure façon de construire des images OCI? DevopsDa...Anthony Dahanne
Les Buildpacks existent depuis plus de 10 ans ! D’abord, ils étaient utilisés pour détecter et construire une application avant de la déployer sur certains PaaS. Ensuite, nous avons pu créer des images Docker (OCI) avec leur dernière génération, les Cloud Native Buildpacks (CNCF en incubation). Sont-ils une bonne alternative au Dockerfile ? Que sont les buildpacks Paketo ? Quelles communautés les soutiennent et comment ?
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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.
Check out the webinar slides to learn more about how XfilesPro transforms Salesforce document management by leveraging its world-class applications. For more details, please connect with sales@xfilespro.com
If you want to watch the on-demand webinar, please click here: https://www.xfilespro.com/webinars/salesforce-document-management-2-0-smarter-faster-better/
SOCRadar Research Team: Latest Activities of IntelBrokerSOCRadar
The European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) has suffered an alleged data breach after a notorious threat actor claimed to have exfiltrated data from its systems. Infamous data leaker IntelBroker posted on the even more infamous BreachForums hacking forum, saying that Europol suffered a data breach this month.
The alleged breach affected Europol agencies CCSE, EC3, Europol Platform for Experts, Law Enforcement Forum, and SIRIUS. Infiltration of these entities can disrupt ongoing investigations and compromise sensitive intelligence shared among international law enforcement agencies.
However, this is neither the first nor the last activity of IntekBroker. We have compiled for you what happened in the last few days. To track such hacker activities on dark web sources like hacker forums, private Telegram channels, and other hidden platforms where cyber threats often originate, you can check SOCRadar’s Dark Web News.
Stay Informed on Threat Actors’ Activity on the Dark Web with SOCRadar!
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.
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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Climate Science Flows: Enabling Petabyte-Scale Climate Analysis with the Eart...Globus
The Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF) is a global network of data servers that archives and distributes the planet’s largest collection of Earth system model output for thousands of climate and environmental scientists worldwide. Many of these petabyte-scale data archives are located in proximity to large high-performance computing (HPC) or cloud computing resources, but the primary workflow for data users consists of transferring data, and applying computations on a different system. As a part of the ESGF 2.0 US project (funded by the United States Department of Energy Office of Science), we developed pre-defined data workflows, which can be run on-demand, capable of applying many data reduction and data analysis to the large ESGF data archives, transferring only the resultant analysis (ex. visualizations, smaller data files). In this talk, we will showcase a few of these workflows, highlighting how Globus Flows can be used for petabyte-scale climate analysis.
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.
In 2015, I used to write extensions for Joomla, WordPress, phpBB3, etc and I ...Juraj Vysvader
In 2015, I used to write extensions for Joomla, WordPress, phpBB3, etc and I didn't get rich from it but it did have 63K downloads (powered possible tens of thousands of websites).
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.
An executive from Bank of America explained in an interview that, “Technology has completely changed the notion of business integration. You cannot say the business is technology or technology enables the business—they are one and the same.” However, frequently there is a disconnect between business and IT, both sides speaking their own language. Compound that by orienting around a product and the disparate views become more apparent: 1 product vs 7 artifact types, 6 tools, 10 projects, across 8 teams. Furthermore, without a ‘north star’ and clear value chain, product managers struggle to know when to turn away work which clouds the backlog dragging the end-to-end flow of work with it.
We know the work that we do resides in tools – ALM QC, Snow, Jira – there are so many diff ways that artifacts are grouped within tools and multiple teams working with them. Visualizing and measuring the end-to-end workflow is a foundational requirement for enabling companies to master software-based solutions at scale. That’s what the Flow Framework addresses.
Tasktop is uniquely positioned to strategically execute on a practical, realistic, concrete approach.
We’ve been able to observe VS flows & patterns from over 300 enterprises across diff industries (finance, retail, Ins, auto, health, technology, academia, fed govt, etc…)
Our approach is driven by this experience & our thought leadership – with the amazing talent on our team and access to recognized authors & speakers, culminating in Mik’s book on the FF. …
FF is our “north star” for our product roadmap & company strategy.
TRANS: We use the FF to measure & optimize the flow of biz value through product-oriented software value streams that are correlated to business results.
EX: FF highlights the end-to-end workflow (Ideate/Create/Release/Operate) so you can see where bottlenecks are – see what’s slowing things down at the PVS level and fix the problem.
We (Tasktop) have 2 main PVS’s (Viz & Hub). Between the two, they bring all aspects of the Flow Framework™ to life.
Starting at the bottom, 1st tools that teams use to manage work get connected to Tasktop,
then you identify which artifacts (stories/epics/features/vulnerabilities) in those diff tools impact the flow of biz value, and from there, model the PVS (model the workflow),
then you can easily start capturing data to view flow metrics in Viz.
Viz is what provides the visibility and insights throughout your journey of moving toward a product-centric way of working.
Message: Our goal is to optimize flow for business results. Making this visible and providing measurement will prompt prioritization conversations between IT and business that will ultimately assist with breaking down the historic silo and enable them to come together as one team. Furthermore, defining work as features, defects, debt and risk will promote the right behavior to achieve your companies desired goals. There will be intentional tradeoffs of prioritization across these categories to be successful. One infamous example is of Bill Gates 2002 memo on trustworthy computing where he wisely stated “Trustworthiness is a much broader concept than security, and winning our customers' trust involves more than just fixing bugs and achieving "five-nines" availability. It's a fundamental challenge that spans the entire computing ecosystem, from individual chips all the way to global Internet services. It's about smart software, services and industry-wide cooperation.” Analyzing these actions through the Flow Framework, he set the north star of first focusing on risk, then focusing on debt, and understood the tradeoff of this focus meant turning new feature work down to zero.
We view the flow item types as units of value creation.
Features drive…
Defects lead to …
Risks provide the necessary updates for …
Debts improve…
Now let’s view the how we measure these flow items in the flow framework.
A Flow Efficiency gain of just 1-2 points translates into a 10-20% reduction in time to market and that is significant when organizations must find ways to compress the timeline to deliver the features customers seek amid increasing market disruption to stay relevant.
We start small…
The main concept that enables gains is data-driven continuous improvement.
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Value Stream Product Manager -
Value Stream Architect - (have end-to-end tool focus)
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