Enov8 Resources
Learn about our products, solutions and best practices across environments, data & release.
Data Sheets
Environment Manager
Better understand & manage your complex IT environments and systems through a centralised portal. Understand the Who, What, Why & How.
Release Manager
Better understand & manage your enterprise releases, implementation plans & deployments via a central system of insights.
Test Data Manager (aka DCS)
DevSecOps your Data and Risks. A holistic test data management and data compliance suite (DCS) framework.
Virtualize Me (aka vME)
DevOps that Data! Rapidly spin up “fully functioning” development & test databases in seconds.
Visuals & InfoGraphics
Continuous Insights
Value Stream! Accelerate Delivery & Improve Stability by implementing continuous insights across your IT delivery chain.
Use Enov8 Information walls to configure real-time dashboards that drive improvement across Environment, Release, Data, DevOps, Security, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Disaster Recovery (DR) and your Compliance & Audit endeavours.
The EMMi
The enov8 “Environment Management Maturity Index” (EMMi) is a capability assessment used to understand an organizations IT & Test Environment Management Maturity.
The 8 dimensions are: Knowledge, Planning & Coordination, Demand Management, Service Management, Orchestration (inc Automation) across Applications, Data and Infrastructure and TEM Status Accounting & Reporting.
TEM Infographic
The enov8 Test Environment Management (TEM) Infographic. Simple vizualisation of key challenges, dimensions, statistics and benefits related to TEM.
TEM Use Case
The enov8 holistic IT & Test Environment Management Use Case, showing the key workflows and actors involved in a complete TEM solution
The Taxonomy of SAFe
In the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), the Agile Release Train(ART) is a long-lived piece of work, usually around 12 months, focused on one or more value streams.
The ART is delivered in Program Increments (PI). PIs provide a development timebox (often 12 weeks) to facilitate planning and ultimately delivery of a piece of work (one or more work items).
PI’s are broken into sprints, usually about 5 of them. Each lasting 2 weeks & delivering certain backlogged features.
The Implementation Plan (aka Deployment Plan) is responsible for controlling deployment day activity. Implementation plan are usually driven at Sprint and/or PI Level.
Deployment Tasks may be a mix of manual tasks, automated tasks or hybrid. These ultimately resulted in the Release Unit being deployed to the Production Environment.
The Taxonomy of ERM
In ERM (Enterprise Release Management), the Enterprise Release Master Plan (schedule) is responsible for aligning your participant projects. Cadence is controlled by primary Milestones & Gates. Typically, 6-12 weeks.
Projects, working in parallel, track themselves to this schedule and hopefully each team has a similar cadence and finishing time.
The Implementation Plan (aka Deployment Plan) is responsible for controlling deployment day activity. Implementation plan are usually driven at Project Level and/or the Enterprise Release Level.
Deployment Tasks may be a mix of manual tasks, automated tasks or hybrid. These ultimately resulted in the Release Unit being deployed to the Production Environment.
Holistic TDM
A framework that describes the broader needs of Test Data Management (TDM). There is a lot more to TDM than simply Extract, Transform & Load (ETL) and you need to consider the data consumers as much as those doing the provisioning. In a nutshell you should be creating Test Data Management frameworks that support Requirements, Data Profiling, Data Masking, Data Fabrication, Data Provisioning, Data Mining, Reservation and of course Status Accounting & Compliance Reporting.
Sea of Data, Mountains of Risk
Ever wondered how important PII Data Compliance really is. Well here are four key statistics to get you thinking. (1) 70% of Security breaches are internal. So make sure you secure that test data. (2) 65% of breaches are estimated to be undetected. (3) 12% is estimated loss of brand damage. So for any fortune 500 company that is at least a few billion. (4) 4% of Revenue, the cost of a Data breach according to GDPR regulations.
Case Studies
Large financial institution saves tens of millions per annum.
Large Utility Organisation deliverying Agile Enterprise Releases.
Large Bank benefits from Holistic Test Data Management.
Large financial institution saves tens of millions per annum.
Large Utility Organisation delivering Agile Enterprise Releases.
Large Bank benefits from Holistic Test Data Management.
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