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Business is demanding better, faster delivery of value from IT so it can compete in a market that’s moving at breakneck speed. How can IT accelerate…
“In many real-world case studies, Plutora has resulted in returns exceeding 600%. A typical return is around 400% depending on the depth of using the products….
Managing software releases across a large enterprise can be costly. Your organization has to employ several release managers and teams of people dedicated to testing and…
What is Enterprise Release Management? Whilst it is common to think of Release Management as the final promotion of a component into a production environment we…
If you work in a large enterprise you know what I’m talking about. Some teams move fast (maybe too fast) while other teams still operate as…
There are three characteristics that drive the need to establish a strong Release Management Process (ERM) practice and they are all related to the complications that accompany scale:…
Last week wasn’t a good week for the stability of high-profile systems. United airlines had a ground-stop due to an “automation failure”, the New York Stock Exchange suffered…
When Forrester analysts Amy DeMartine and Kurt Bittner wrote “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective DevOps” the habit I focused on was habit number one: “Establish trust…
This post could have also been titled “Questions Release Managers should be Prepared to Answer.” Imagine you report to a VP who is asking you questions…
Almost every large enterprise faces a similar challenge: you’ve moved to cloud-based environments, now how do you achieve some level of elasticity? How do you squeeze…
The Capability Maturity Model (CMM) has become an essential tool for assessing IT initiatives. Originally developed to assess the capabilities of government subcontractors in the 1990s,…
Your organization starts with a simple mode – a single project will have two week “sprints”. Every two weeks you are going to aim for a…
