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…
I Thought DevOps Integration was Supposed to be Easy?
We’ve said it on this blog before, and we’ll repeat the same message: Solving a software engineering problem is simple physics. It takes a set amount…
How Enterprise Release Management Enhances Project Portfolio Management
As a user of a Project Portfolio Management (PPM) solution, you’re probably hearing about Enterprise Release Management (ERM) as an emerging solution for managing enterprise change…
The Link Between Change Management and Release Management
Change Management and Release Management are different but related functions within organizations. At a high level, Change activities relate to the process of requesting changes, assessing…
3 New Year Resolutions for Release Management
Happy New Year from Plutora! We’re looking forward to the new year as we continue to develop products aimed at taking the effort out of environment,…