What is Value Stream Management and Why it’s so Important
Software delivery is only becoming more complex. At the same time, it continues to be ever more important, as it is a necessary core competency for…
How to Create a Robust Business Continuity Plan
A business continuity plan (BCP) helps companies restart their business operations quickly through a systematic plan of prevention and recovery when hit by a disaster. Businesses…
What Is Advanced Analytics? A Comprehensive Introduction
When you start a new business, you take actions based either on the reference of a similar business or on your hunch. But as a business…
The Savvy Manager’s Guide to Managing Remote Teams
You are one savvy manager. You’ve earned your scars, and you know how to manage a team to help them be successful. But now, you’re faced…
The Emerging Role of Value Stream Manager: A Job Description
The Value Stream Manager is a new and growing role in software development. But despite being a relative newcomer, they play a critical role in leading…
Working Remotely: A Complete Guide to the New Reality of 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic turned virtually all technology professionals into remote workers. I’ve been a remote worker for quite some time, and I love working remotely, but…
Remote Management: A Detailed Guide and 8 Best Practices
Many organizations all around the world have started to adopt remote working. Some of them have been doing it for quite some time, but for others,…
Product Management vs. Project Management in the Enterprise
If your organization is like many organizations, you embrace project management as a critical tool. You invite at least one project manager to every meeting, and…
OKR: An Executive’s Handbook for Objective and Key Results
This post is all about the objective and key results (OKR) framework. If you’ve spent some time looking into modern management practices, it’s a term you’ve…
Executive Dashboard: A What-And-Why Guide With Examples
Decisions, decisions, decisions. Since you entered the C-suite, your life has become rife with decisions. Not only that, but the uncertainties also seem to have multiplied…
How to effectively work remotely as an enterprise software development team
Covid-19 has upended our daily lives. For many of us, it has also fundamentally changed the places in which we work. And this has no small…
Get ITSM Up to Speed on Security for DevOps
Traditional ITSM processes, whilst designed for all the right reasons; to protect us, to improve our predictability and to enable common understanding, are frequently accused of…