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Do you ever wonder why the environment preparation or releases take so long? After all, the company just invested “zillions” on a whole bunch of great tools and a cloud framework.

So, you have decided you’re going to implement a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and promote a continuous delivery pipeline by implementing “Agile Release Trains”…

It goes without saying, that the backbone of all organizations today is digital and independent of the end-products you provide, there is an inherent need to drive your features and solutions from conception to production…

I am continually ‘un-amazed’ when I go into large organizations and look at their ‘DevOps’ strategy. At a team level, it’s invariably no different to what we were doing back in the late 90’s…

The intention of environment synthetics is to provide ‘high-level of confidence’ applications (your system instances e.g. UAT Home Loan System) and their underlying component services…

DevOps & DevOps at Scale is little a bit like comparing the building of Sand Castles on a Beach to Town Planning. Here are 5 practices to promote as a way of preparing for a DevOps at scale capability…

This year’s world quality report (2018) has once again identified Test Environment Management as a major challenge for Agile Development & Testing. Key statistical insights from this report included…

A key responsibility of any CIO is to find the correct technology partners to deliver IT services. Ideally services that will be delivered: Better, Faster, or at the very least Cheaper. A process that involves RFPs, Presentations, Strategy Workshops…

How could a large company, like a bank, be 100% agile? And how could they prove it?
I see two fundamental challenges or truisms: 1. Companies are federated 2. Measuring Agile is Difficult

DevOps is a set of practices that automates the processes between software development and IT teams, allowing them to build, test, and release software faster and more reliably. The concept of DevOps is based on collaboration between teams that historically functioned in relative silos…

Before starting this topic on importance of Release Gates, lets understand – what is a release gate?
A Release Gate can be defined as a milestone or health indicator of a release at that very point in time…

Metrics for your Non Production and Test Environments. Ever wondered how you should measure your Test Environment capability? Well it can be hard without a platform like Enov8 Ecosystem, a solution that allows you to bring all your…

How are you managing the software release risks associated with constant change? In today’s fast paced market, every business is under immense pressure to outshine their competitors in regards to product offering and customer…

Do you know how much inefficient Test Environment Management is costing you? One thing that stands out from our discussions with organisations in Asia Pacific, North America and Europe is the distinct lack of awareness when it…

In the rush to digital, IT is burdened with new performance issues. An interesting article on ZDNET that talks about the challenges IT and Test Environments are causing businesses as they strive to be competitive and agile….

I had an “interesting” chat with a potential client this week…I could tell the client was somewhat distracted and had something “greater” on their mind.
So, I probed slightly & the vision became apparent: “We want our Projects to Self-Service the Test Environments”…

An interesting article from IT News on why companies need to start looking at platforms like Enov8 EcoSystem to better understand and control their IT Environments, capabilities and operations…

Whether it is uplifting legacy technology assets or planning data centre migrations to private or public cloud (or a hybrid) – Here are 6 tips to help plan a successful migration.

Kent beck, the inventor of XP extreme programming, once wrote about the concept of “Smelly Code”.

Given IT Environments seem to be a significant challenge for so many organizations, It got us thinking…

We often get asked by people “What is TEM (Test Environment Management), well for those of you looking for a quick overview of Test Environment Management, here is Use Case we developed as a way…

We are pleased to announce our new partnership with Delta Society Australia! Delta is a national not-for-profit organisation that brings the joy of animal companionship to those…

Waiting for bad things to happen is never a good practice. Once a system is down, it may already be too late and damage to the business could be irreversible. IT resilience is about preventing a disaster recovery situation before it happens.

A group of leading technology companies have announced they will work together on the establishment of a new “Zero Outage” industry standard. A standard to safeguard quality…

A core part of managing your IT & Test environments is the management of your systems information & data and the streamlining of these operations. This can be achieved by leveraging “best of breed” tools…

A core part of managing your IT & Test environments is the ability to streamline operations by leveraging your favourite tools. Enov8 can integrate all your favourite development & test tools…

Integrate EcoSystem with your existing Infrastructure Orchestration toolsets for Configuration, Provisioning and Decommissioning…

It is hard to believe most enterprises are still managing their Development & Test Environment assets and activities with non-scalable and non-Integratable methods like spreadsheets, word documents and emails. This results in major blind spots and inefficiencies…