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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 were already using agile...

Organizations evaluating database virtualization tools are usually trying to solve a very practical problem: how to give teams fast, safe access to realistic data without copying production databases over and over again. Whether the driver is test automation,...

New technologies and new ways of doing things are continually impacting the way our IT Environments evolve and how we do things. One area of growing popularity is Microservices.   Why Use Microservices? Why should you start using microservices? Why all the...

Preamble You’ve probably seen some recent articles asserting that the world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil—it’s data. New internet titans like Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft look unstoppable. In fact, these internet titans are listed as the...

Preamble Software is buggy. It’s a bold claim, I know. Sarcasm aside, the battle to keep your applications up and running is ongoing. Wouldn’t it be nice if you had a way to eliminate an entire class of bugs from your application?  Enterprise configuration...

Even since the agile manifesto was published in 2001, software development has never been the same. In a pre-agile world, software was released in monolithic packages every year or every two years.  The agile approach to development prioritized faster, more...

This year’s world quality report (2018) has once again identified Test Environment Management as a major challenge for Agile Development & Testing.   WQR Recap This year’s world quality report (2018) has once again identified Test Environment Management...

Enterprise Release Management (ERM) is a set of end-to-end practices that enable large organizations to effectively manage software releases. ERM is uniquely designed for the challenges of multiple teams building and releasing software simultaneously. ERM establishes...

"Test Environment Management Checklist." Yep, that sounds like a mouthful, but don't let that discourage you. The idea here is quite simple—adopting a checklist to evaluate the soundness of your test environment management approach. Even though the idea sounds simple...

SAP systems handle some of the most sensitive data in the enterprise: financial transactions, HR information, supplier records, customer profiles, operational details, and more. For that reason, copying production data into non-production systems without modification...

In the always-an-adventure world of IT service management, there are several key processes that are essential for delivering high-quality services to customers and end-users. Two of the most critical processes are release management and deployment management....

Application rationalization is the process of identifying which applications an organization should keep, update, consolidate, or retire. Think of it as a financial adviser, but instead of your investment portfolio, it's your application portfolio. Most companies take...

For many organizations, DevOps is the best practice for efficiency. However, this model doesn't come easily as the organization needs to put certain things in place. For example, the firm needs to incorporate the right tools to ensure its delivery pipeline and...

Have you ever wondered what would happen if you mistakenly added bugs to your codes and shipped them to users? For instance, let's say an IT firm has its primary work tree on GitHub, and a team member pushes codes with bugs to the primary work tree. The firm may also...