Value Stream Management and Value Stream Mapping – A complementary approach to delivering greater value through software

The emergence of Value Stream Management (VSM) as a concept applicable to software delivery signaled a change in the winds for traditional enterprises in a tech-driven world. Finally, “non-tech” organizations have a practice available that is focussed on extracting more business value from IT.

While the two “VSMs” are different concepts, they are not mutually exclusive. In fact, they’re complementary. To understand how both practices work, we need to define what they are and what they can do.

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Software development as it should be – Rediscover your passion for building great products

Instead of reveling in their passion for building great products, developers find themselves too often wasting countless hours on non-value adding work.

Countless meetings, logging in and out of tools to copy/paste information, rummaging through emails and chat threads, filling in timesheets - - everything but coding. Meanwhile the business and their management are on their backs; “Faster! Better! More!”

Such a high-pressure environment is a surefire way to kill your passion, turning your dream into a nightmare. It shouldn’t be like this, nor does it have to.

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Integration patterns: Architecting your value stream for speed and quality

As traditional enterprises struggle to transform in the Age of Digital Disruption and compete with tech giants and startups, the need to accelerate the flow of business value through software is now a critical business priority. Leading organizations, many of whom are in the Fortune 100, have taken key steps to architect their software delivery value stream around flow to successfully reduce the time to value of their software products.

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Securing Cellular Enterprise IoT Solutions

In the first steps on the road to digital transformation of the enterprise, a billion cellular IoT devices have already been connected worldwide. Yet this transformation is just getting going – billions more will follow and growth rates will remain high. This rapid growth of connected devices is not all plain sailing – it brings with it new challenges and new risks, particularly those associated with online security. In the midst of this, Aeris is bringing to market new solutions designed to assist IoT device manufacturers and solution providers address these security issues. These are outlined later in this report.

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The Internet Of Things For Business

The Internet of Things is hitting its stride. It is a critical enabler of digital transformation efforts happening around the globe. For consumers, businesses, and governments, IoT is playing an increasing role in how we consume information to make decisions and how we interact with the world around us. More than that, IoT also is changing how we personally experience our world―our daily interactions with our connected car, smart homes, and connected wearables make us digitally linked to the physical world in a way that would seem like magic to people living just 100 years ago.

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LTE-M – Advantages of Next Gen Connectivity

Many businesses are interested in the Internet of Things (IoT) thanks to the possible benefits of implementing IoT-ready devices, including the ability to streamline workflows and cut expenses. Yet few consider how these things will connect to a network to transmit data and receive information from outside sources in order to make accurate predictions.

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Addressing Challenges in Hybrid Cloud Security

How can you secure your apps and services without compromising your schedule? (Hint: It’s all in the automation.) Enterprises are using hybrid cloud technologies to enrich the user experience and power their digital transformation. But running applications in public clouds while managing the application data in private clouds makes for a unique set of security requirements. We discuss the challenges that DevOps teams face in hybrid environments and how those challenges can be overcome.

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Infographic: Day in the Life of a Support Agent

Life doesn’t have to be stressful for a remote support agent. Sure, there are always fires to put out - last-minute software upgrades, crashed servers, forgotten passwords. But with the right remote support tools, demanding organizations can satisfy their evolving needs anywhere, anytime, from any device. Here’s what freedom looks like for one support agent.

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Remote Support Buyer’s Guide

More and more organizations are looking to implement an intuitive remote support solution that gives support professionals on-demand productivity and provides quick resolutions to the ever-evolving set of pains that bedevil support teams today. But choosing the best remote support solution can be a challenge, especially as user expectations grow and systems become more complex and offer more options and features.

This buyer’s guide can help you select the remote support tool that will work best for your organization. With more than 15 years of experience, LogMeIn delivers a market-leading portfolio of solutions to fit any of your remote support requirements.

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Abderden Report: Onward to the Future of IT Support

In this Aberdeen report, we look at how new technologies and evolving consumer expectations are transforming IT support. Organizations primed to deliver innovative solutions and meet the high expectations of customers can expedite support, resolve issues faster, increase productivity, reduce costs, and leave end-users satisfied.

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Finding flexibility with microservices, containers, and runtimes

An introduction to the Forrester analyst report: How to Capture the Benefits of Microservice Design

There has always been a relationship between an application and the platform and services which run it. For a long time, that relationship was very tight and encompassed a lot of areas related to the application design, from the language the application could be written in to administrative behaviors like monitoring and logging, even things like transaction management, frontend UI development, or integration methods.

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The path to cloud-native applications

The cloud-native approach describes a way of modernizing existing applications and building new applications based on cloud principles, using services and adopting processes optimized for the agility and automation of cloud computing. This e-book describes detailed steps as a part of a successful journey from where you are today to adopting a cloud-native application approach.

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Digital innovation through agile integration

Everything changes. We are in a period of significant shifts in companies — even entire industries — demonstrated in rankings, like the Fortune Global 500. For the last century, these periods of volatility have been driven by a combination of technological change and capital expansion. There is obvious competition between direct, traditional market segments, but digital disruption also opens up the ability to compete and gain revenue in new areas. For example, a movie streaming service like Netflix also launches a community around the software it created to run its services, or an online retailer like Amazon also innovates with public cloud management. Innovation requires more than a slick customer user interface (UI). There has to be a foundation of technology, processes, and culture that allow an organization to be flexible, to build on its existing knowledge, and to incorporate new ideas.

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Executive guide to selecting a cloud-native development platform

When any organization starts planning for cloud-native applications, it is important to consider the entire time span: from selecting a development platform until an application is truly production-grade and ready for delivery in the cloud. It can be a long journey, with many decisions along the way that can help or hinder progress.

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Finding flexibility with microservices, containers, and runtimes

An introduction to the Forrester analyst report: How to Capture the Benefits of Microservice Design

There has always been a relationship between an application and the platform and services which run it. For a long time, that relationship was very tight and encompassed a lot of areas related to the application design, from the language the application could be written in to administrative behaviors like monitoring and logging, even things like transaction management, frontend UI development, or integration methods.

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