Topic: project management
Atlassian acquires Trello, Google Go in 2016, and the Nokia 6—SD Times news digest: Jan. 9, 2017
Atlassian has acquired the project-management software provider Trello. According to Atlassian, over the past five years Trello has helped more than 19 million registered users capture and add structure to their workflows. Atlassian hopes the acquisition will help transform the way teams work. “Atlassian’s mission is to unleash the potential in every team. That’s a … continue reading
GitHub Enterprise 2.8 available, CA Technologies study finds data-management practices inadequate, and Mozilla announces Rust 1.13—SD Times news digest: Nov. 11, 2016
GitHub Enterprise 2.8 is available with code review, project-management tools, and Jupyter notebook rendering, so developers and product teams can make their workflows more powerful and versatile. To help researchers with producing and sharing data on GitHub, GitHub Enterprise 2.8 adds Jupyter Notebook rendering to make it easy to capture data-driven workflows and let project-management … continue reading
GitHub brings Projects to the organization level
GitHub is giving organizations another way to manage their repositories, users and work. The company announced that Projects is going to the organizational level. GitHub first announced Projects as a new way to manage work at its second annual Universe conference last month. Projects is designed to help users to organize and distribute work easily in … continue reading
Pushing testers out of their comfort zone
Getting testers on board with agile development processes is the only way organizations can successfully make the transition to more frequent delivery of software while retaining quality. That’s the opinion of Selena Delesie, a software development and agile consultant who gave the keynote address at the annual STARWEST conference, running this week at the Disneyland … continue reading
Agile 2016: Happy workers are productive workers
ATLANTA — You can’t expect good performance from your employees if you are practicing bad management, according to Jurgen Appelo, CEO of the business network Happy Melly and cofounder of Agile Lean Europe. Appelo kicked off the Agile 2016 conference here with tips from his new book on how to manage for happiness. According to … continue reading
SD Times GitHub Project of the Week: Gitter
Developers aren’t just guys or gals sitting alone coding at their desks all day long. They like to chat, and they especially like to chat with other developers. This week’s GitHub project gives developers a home for professional communities by connecting them through messaging and discovery, bringing together 350,000 developers chatting daily in more than … continue reading
ZenHub Epics gives developers more transparency
ZenHub, the project management tool that natively integrates into GitHub’s UI, is taking a different approach to collaboration. The company has announced ZenHub Epics, a new tool that aims to put control and flexibility back into the hands of developers. According to the company, with the rise of DevOps, collaboration between development teams and project … continue reading
Guest View: How enterprises can handle changes in BPM
Volatility in today’s business landscape is unprecedented: It is harder than ever to stay on top and win a lasting competitive advantage. Due to the Digital Disruption, it is now virtually impossible to develop a business model, cast it into the concrete of an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system and leverage highly optimized processes for … continue reading
Code Watch: The five essential rules of software project management
Although the point of this column is to discuss “where the rubber meets the road” of software development rather than theory, if you read SD Times, you are most likely managing a software development team or teams. As endlessly challenging as code is, dealing with people is, by far, the harder part of developing software … continue reading
Guest View: Continuous Delivery vs. Continuous Deployment: What’s the difference?
To better support developer and quality assurance personnel, it will be important to understand the characteristics of Continuous Delivery and deployment as well as what makes them unique. In today’s tech landscape, a wide variety of keywords and acronyms have emerged, and all of this jargon has often made processes and concepts more confusing. For … continue reading
TechExcel zeroes in on project management
TechExcel is taking a turn toward project portfolio management with the latest release DevSuite 9.5, its application life-cycle management suite. “In today’s world, project management is very important to every organization,” said Tieren Zhou, founder and chief software architect of TechExcel. “It really helps a organization be successful and generate revenue.” With the new project … continue reading
Code Watch: Avoiding the beginner’s reef
Experienced program managers must be careful not to be blindsided by the problems of novices working with them … continue reading
