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18 Key Release Management Metrics

Every business needs to ensure cost-efficient and effective allocation of its resources, and one way to accomplish that is through metrics — measurements that help you…

Enterprise Release Manager Job Description

Enterprise Release Manager: The Only Job Description You Need to Hire the Best

Enterprise Release Manager is a new role in the enterprise. It has become critical as enterprises continue to report larger portfolios with an increased number of…

DevOps Culture

You Can’t Have a True DevOps Culture Without Effective Release Management

While the DevOps movement and associated technologies have garnered much attention and fanfare, few have addressed the core issue—the handoff from development to operations. This blog…

software testing communication

4 Reasons Why Communication Should be Your Single Most Important Software Testing Goal

Do you know why improving communication should be your single most important software testing goal? Here are four reasons why communication is so critical. 1. Spend…

agile and devops

Agile and DevOps are failing in Fortune 500 companies.

Mistruths promoting the cure-all, Agile and DevOps, hurt everyone seeking a truly better way to deliver software. ING begun its agile transformation in 2010 with just…

software testing communication

How to Spend Less Time Providing Software Testing Status Updates in the Enterprise

Do you spend too much time providing status updates in emails, calls, and meetings? Does your testing team often not have the information they need to…

Control Costs: Use Cloud Test Environments

Control Costs: Use Cloud Test Environments

There is no way that’s more effective at reducing your overall test environment spend than migrating to cloud test environments and embracing testing and infrastructure automation. The…

Metrics and KPIs for Test Environment Stability

Metrics and KPIs for Test Environment Stability

If your testing environments are constantly unavailable and affected by outages, your release timelines will be affected. You can use Plutora’s Test Environment Management dashboard to measure stability…

Control Costs: Measure Test Environment Effort

Control Costs: Measure Test Environment Effort

How many people does it take to set up and tear down a test environment? If you ask this question and measure the effort required you…

Control Costs: Scale Down Test Environments

Control Costs: Scale Down Test Environments

You’d be surprised how often organizations insist on running a carbon-copy of a production network for a rarely-used staging environment; this is unnecessary. You don’t need…

data driven releases

Achieve Data-driven Releases Using Test Management Software

While developers can sprint from idea to implementation in a matter of days, QA has struggled to keep up with this rapid pace due to a…

Control Costs: Keep Track of Test Environments

Control Costs: Keep Track of Test Environments

Test environments cost money; this is the inescapable fact of test environment management. It can be difficult to justify the expense in your conversations with finance and management,…