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26 JULY, 2018 by Niall Crawford Deploying an instance in AWS, Azure or Google is typically a straightforward process. However, architecting, managing and optimizing your end-to-end platforms that consist of application tiers, data tiers, integration points and...

Deployment shouldn’t be the most nerve-racking task for IT and DevOps Teams, but many times it is. But what if we’re talking about bigger systems, like those used by a major online retailer or a bank?…

Speak to any CIO nowadays and one of their top initiatives and commitment to the business will be moving to the cloud…

Some might think that because DevOps is hard to implement, it’s not for everyone, especially not large organizations. That’s not true. Outcomes are what really matter…

Whether your organization is starting an agile transformation now or is well on its way, there are always pitfalls. Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is a big leap for most organizations. After all, even if some of your development teams…

The roles of governing Enterprise Release Management and the Deployment Management are complementary, yet involve various different functions (or sets of many hats)…

We have all heard of the term Business Intelligence (BI), coined in 1865 and described more recently by Gartner as “an umbrella term that includes the applications,…

    10   MAY, 2018 by Niall Crawford Ever wondered how mature your IT & Test Environment Management practices are? Well here at Enov8, over the last few years, we have been building a model called the EMMi (the Environment Management Maturity Index)   Originally...

The backbone of business today is digital, and every day we rely more and more on the IT services and infrastructures around us. However, when things go wrong…

So, you’ve got a team responsible for Test Data Management. Your project puts in a request, they grab copies from production, mask them, subset them and deploy them into your Test Environments.

If your organization is starting an agile transformation, you might be looking at it as an opportunity. Or perhaps you’re looking at it with some healthy skepticism…

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”…