Are you being haunted by bad software lifecycle integration? Ask yourself: * Is your team being drained by productivity vampires? * Has your Agile or DevOps transformation turned into a zombie project? * Are you caught in the spider web of point-to-point integrations? * Do you know what monsters are lurking behind your tools' APIs? Whether you've tried to build your own integration, suffer through lightweight integration solutions, or even manage without integrated tools, you know that building software without an integrated SDLC can be a real nightmare. This spooky webinar covers some some serious issues facing software development and delivery teams. We'll share scary stories and arm you with the knowledge you need to keep the integration nightmares at bay.

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Integration Horror Stories
October 26, 2016

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Betty Zakheim
VP Industry Strategy Tasktop
30 Years in Software Development and
Delivery
Professional Scrum Master
Our Speakers
Sarah Ryan
Marketing Operations Manager
Marketing Automation and Task
Management Software Junkie
Voted Most Likely To Come Up With a
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Silly webinar, serious issues

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Lack of Integration

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Time spent on email and status meetings is time not spent
coding, testing, deploying, defining requirements….
Productivity Vampires

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Time spent rekeying information turns bright minds into
zombies.
Swivel Seat Zombies

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Manual (re)work is costing you a horror-ble amount of money!
Reality Check – Lack of Integration
Number of developers 1200
Number of testers 300
Total users 1500
Working hours per week 38
Minutes saved per user per week 100
Productivity increase 4.4%
Total direct delivery costs $225,000,000
Delivery value add factor 1
Additional value delivered (per year) $9,868,421

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DIY Integration

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What’s lurking behind those APIs?
Just because the system has an API, it doesn’t mean you have
the keys to the kingdom. You thought you had a roadmap but
you don’t.

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Spider Web of Point-to Point Integration
Point-to-point integrations are expensive to build and maintain.

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Spider Web of Point-to Point Integration
Point-to-point integrations can impact application performance.

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It may seem easy, but it’s prone to failure
It’s not simply a technical challenge, it requires..
In-depth knowledge of the tools,
How they work and
How they should work together
Reality Check – DIY Integration

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Lightweight Solutions

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Mirroring artifacts without the relationships removes all the
context. This leaves you a pile of artifacts.
Pile of Bones
Skeleton with no context

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Mirroring artifacts without the relationships removes all the
context. This leaves you a pile of artifacts.
Artifact Relationship Management
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A quick demo may not reveal
shortcomings
Initial license costs are a small fraction
of the cost to deploy
Reality Check – Lightweight Solutions

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Zombies are projects that, for any number of reasons, fail to fulfill their promise and yet
keep shuffling along, sucking up resources without any real hope of having a meaningful
impact on the company’s strategy or revenue prospects.
Zombie (Transformation) Project

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Project Managers OperationsBusiness Analysts TestersDevelopers
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Eliminate your horror stories:
Automate the flow of work among
colleagues, reducing wasted time
and aggravation
Gain visibility across your entire
lifecycle by collecting metrics and
activity data for dashboard, KPIs
and automated traceability reports
Initiative/Feature Requirements
Tests
Defects
PPM
Requirements
Req. Mgmt
User Stories
Defects
Agile Planning
Changesets
Version Control
Build
CI
Trouble Ticket
Service Desk
Test Management
Release
Release Mgmt
Vulnerability
Validation
Alerts
APM

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