Change Advisory Board (CAB) and Release Management: The Connection
For mature organizations, change management is a critical process. The business relies on software operating correctly to perform critical business functions. They also rely on software…
What Is IT Governance? Understanding From First Principles
IT governance is a thought framework that makes sure information technology systems provide the value an organization needs and limits the risks that come with using…
What Is Predictive Analytics and How Can It Help You?
Organizations have more data under their control than ever before. But as the Internet of Things starts growing and 5G networks come online, the age of…
ITIL V4 Change Management in 2019: Everything You Need to Know
Change. Love it or hate it—and let’s be honest, most of us hate it—it will always be a big part of working in IT. IT service…
Top 4 Digital Transformation Challenges (And how to solve them)
Companies across industries are investing in digital transformations to improve productivity and deliver innovative customer-centric software. Digital native companies continue to reshape markets, leaving traditional incumbents…
Shadow IT: Learn From It to Get It Under Control
Why does your company have an IT department? At its core, this department employs best practices to ensure that company data is securely accessed, created, stored,…
DevSecOps: A Complete Guide to What, Why, and How
If done right, DevOps implementation should bring fruitful results to any organization: better collaboration between teams, faster time to market, improved overall productivity, and enhanced customer…
Come Talk to Us and Merck at Jenkins World 2018 – Booth 120
It’s that time again as Jenkins World is upon us. I love that the conference is being renamed to DevOps World as it spotlights a key…
One Company’s Success with Test Environment Management
If you live in the United Kingdom, Ireland or in the eastern United States, there is a good chance that your electricity is provided by Centrica…
The Five Tenets of Software Delivery Assurance
Delivery Assurance isn’t a new concept for companies developing and delivering software. The overarching goal – ensuring that new software is delivered on time and on…
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…
Enabling Frequent Software Releases, Greater Independence
As release managers and executives, we address release complexity and complex dependencies between releases by combining software releases…