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Increasing Software Velocity While Maintaining Quality and Efficiency
At Compuware, we have been exploring the need for continuous improvement across three key dimensions of software development: velocity, quality and efficiency. Given today’s current market demands and the importance of digital services, this discussion couldn’t be timelier. On my previous piece, I focused on quality — how to maintain and improve it as (supposedly) […]
May 22, 2020 · 3 minAll articles by Rick Slade
Showing 1–3Maintaining Exceptional Quality Despite Shrinking Delivery Deadlines
My first article in this series focused on the need for continuous improvement across three key dimensions of software development–velocity, quality and efficiency. While these are all equally important, in this piece we’re going to focus more specifically on quality. The past few months—what you might call the summer of outages—have been troublesome for many […]
Focusing on the True DevOps North Star: Continuous Improvement
When we look beyond the fundamentals of tearing down silos and establishing greater collaboration, communication and transparency, DevOps is a label assigned to a framework of best practices and technologies that organizations leverage to deliver systems faster, more efficiently and without sacrificing quality. The best practice within that framework is continuous improvement, which provides stakeholders […]