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What is Test Environment Churn?

What is Test Environment Churn?

Test Environment Churn and Test Environment Pollution are two things that happen when you have environment managers creating hundreds of environments to support hundreds of projects…

8 Ways to Improve your Enterprise Release Management Process

8 Ways to Improve your Enterprise Release Management Process

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…

Agile Accountability: Do your Governance Gates have a Padlock or a Warning Sign?

Agile Accountability: Do your Governance Gates have a Padlock or a Warning Sign?

Most large software enterprises are facing a tough choice: on one hand you have the control and stability of traditional ITSM, and on the other you…

ERM Brings It All Together: A Single Dashboard for Enterprise Release Status

ERM Brings It All Together: A Single Dashboard for Enterprise Release Status

Enterprise software development has undergone a dramatic transformation in the last decade as most companies have transitioned to more iterative, agile approaches to software delivery.  This…

What is Test Environment Churn

Move Faster, Get Better: ERM is Continuous Process Improvement

Across industries, time to market for new software initiatives is decreasing over time and the frequency with which releases are transitioned from development to production is…

release management practices

4 Best Practices that Define Enterprise Release Management

Enterprise Release Management (ERM) is an emerging set of practices designed to support enterprise change initiatives and software delivery across multiple projects within large organizations. ERM…

Can we get another QA Environment… Tomorrow

Can we get another QA Environment… Tomorrow?

“Hey, can we get another QA environment?” That question can ruin an environment manager’s day. A large organization plans for capacity, purchases enough infrastructure to support…

How Agile Release Managers Skip Change Control

Agile Change Management (How to eliminate risk)

Do you think development teams really update those BMC Remedy tickets with all the changes contained in a release?  They don’t.  Most of them just “check…

Assessing Your Maturity: Plutora’s CMM for Release Management

Assessing Your Maturity: Plutora’s CMM for Release Management

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,…

DevOps infographic

DevOps Infographic – Enterprise vs Unicorns

DevOps Infographic – Enterprise Reality vs Unicorns

3 DevOps considerations for the enterprise

3 DevOps Considerations for the Enterprise

Many of the well-known examples of DevOps success we read in blogs on the Internet paint an idyllic picture of DevOps productivity. A team was facing…

DevOps Risks - Climbing

DevOps Risks: 5 Mistakes to Avoid

DevOps arrived in large enterprises, and we’re seeing several large corporations moving to more agile software delivery and more frequent releases. We’ve helped many companies move…