Value Trumps Flow: The Danger of Speed

Is your technology team focused on improving flow? Is the central goal of your IT department to deliver a certain number of deploys per year/month/week/day? Then you might be moving rapidly in the wrong direction. While becoming more agile is a great goal to have, if improving software delivery speed is your primary focus, then perhaps you are missing a critical piece of the puzzle. "So wait a minute!" you might be wondering. "If not flow, then what should be our main focus?"

TechStrong Con 2021

TechStrong Con Now in its second year, TechStrong Con continues to serve as a testament to the ways in which technology can improve human existence. Digital transformation, DevOps, cloud-native and cybersecurity all have played major roles in enabling organizations to move beyond survival mode and offer transformative and experiential services and environments that are shaping the new normal.

The Power of Connections

Organizations going through a digital transformation find themselves running into a major roadblock. As they travel this path, they see that disconnection rules the day. Teams are siloed, processes clash, and the tools don't play nice. It is impossible to succeed in these conditions.

Value Stream Management is NOT a Feature. So What Is It?

The Value Stream Management space seems to be filling up rapidly. Everybody wants a piece of the cake. In the blink of an eye, dozens of companies have jumped on the bandwagon claiming to now "do" value stream management.

DevOps Experience 2021 – The Danger Zone: Avoid Being Too SAFe by Embracing Value Streams

ConnectALL is proud to be a sponsor and a part of one of the largest DevOps conferences in the world. DevOps Experience 2021, organized by MediaOps, is on October 27-28 with a theme called The Roaring Twenties. As we look forward to all of the great things digital transformation enables, we also have to be ready to tackle tough problems like global warming, Cybersecurity threats, future pandemics, diversity and more.

ADDO All Day DevOps 2021

The All Day DevOps team is back with the 6th Annual conference on October 28, 2021 for 24 hours, streamed live, online to the global DevOps/DevSecOps community.. There will be six simultaneous tracks, with each track containing a continuous series of 30-minute presentations, for a total of over 90+ hours of presentations. Attendance is free, available through streaming online services. The All Day DevOps Conference is organized by advocates in the DevOps/DevSecOps community, who are working together to deliver a diversity of sessions and speakers from all over the world to show practical usage and technical solutions of DevOps in ...

{virtual} VSMcon 2021

As software development, delivery and performance become more complex due to modern architectures, value streams can help organizations unlock the bottlenecks and eliminate process waste to continuously improve how they work and deliver better experiences to their customers. Value stream management concepts are critical when the product changes frequently due to opportunities in the markets, the materials change due to the complexity of modern software architectures and means of delivery, and the output is often changing based on customer demands and expectations. At Virtual VSMcon, you will learn how to apply value stream strategies to your development process to gain ...

You Won’t Believe How the Grinch Saved Christmas!

You Won’t Believe How the Grinch Saved Christmas! Three things the Grinch did with the value streams to help Whoville “It came without ribbons, it came without tags. It came without packages, boxes, or bags.  Maybe Christmas doesn’t come from a store. Maybe Christmas perhaps means a little bit more. Now you listen to me! Even if we’re horribly mangled, there’ll be no sad faces on Christmas.” said the Grinch. While the Grinch may have hated Christmas cheer, deep down he wanted to be part of the rave. He wanted the people of Whoville to see what he saw. He ...

The Hottest Value Stream Metrics (That Actually Matter)

There is no shortage of metrics related to software delivery. Agile metrics; DevOps and DORA metrics; support, services and operational metrics; Lean, value stream and flow metrics; product and predictability metrics. All trumpeted by their own champions as the hottest thing since sliced bread. And ConnectALL’s research shows that as a result of the sheer volume of measures, organizations are not confident in selecting metrics. They struggle utilizing analytics platforms and tools, especially without relevant out-of-the-box dashboards with metrics that are pre-selected to solve key challenges. That's not cool at all. :snowman: DevOps.com is excited to host ConnectALL's SVP of ...

{virtual} VSMcon 2022

{virtual} VSMcon 2022 The value stream management conference for development teamsBringing business and IT together {virtual} VSMcon 2022 is a digital conference examining the benefits of creating and managing value streams in your development organization. At this event we will discuss how VSM has finally brought business and IT together in a common language -- something businesses have struggled with for more than 20 years. At {virtual} VSMcon, not only will you learn how to apply value stream management to your development processes to gain efficiencies, improve quality and cut costs - you'll also learn about new solutions, strategies, and trends that are ...