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“Remodeling” Your Business the Agile Way
A few years ago, my parents moved in with me. I quickly learned that my house wasn’t big enough for…

Why You Really Need a Driver Behavior Monitoring System for Fleet Management
Why do you need to use the driver behavior monitoring for your fleet? If dangerous driving behaviors only led to…

Empowering Your Product Owner
Many people interchange the title "Product Owner" with "Product Manager," but the roles can be very different. In some organizations,…

What Is a Kubernetes Secrets Vault and Why Do You Need One?
Secrets management is an important topic for organizations of any size. Especially with cloud computing and microservices, we have to…

The Business Analysis Phase: Components of the process and case studies
The business analysis phase has the strongest impact on the product development process. A business analyst can save your time…

How to Establish an Agile Finance Team
Much like companies in the financial services industry, finance functions and the CFOs who lead them are facing social, economic,…

Is Agile HR Right for Your Organization?
While Agile got its start in the software development field, these days businesses are increasingly pursuing agility across the entire…

Jira Service Management Cloud: Standard vs Premium vs Enterprise
This article compares the three service tiers available for Jira Service Management on the Atlassian Cloud platform. If you’re also…

The Cost of a SAFe® Implementation: Budgeting Tips to Help You Launch Your First Agile Release Train
In the past several years, I have worked with a number of clients who were interested in adopting SAFe (Scaled…

Kubernetes Secret Management With External Secrets Operator
Secrets management is crucial for organizations of any size. However, it's not as simple as you may think. You may…

How to Know if Your Jira-GitLab Integration is Successful
In a previous article, we covered what organizations should consider when researching and implementing a Jira-GitLab integration. But the next…

The Gitlab-Jira Integration: What to Consider
For organizations that have established an agile development workflow within a nominal DevOps environment, software engineers across the spectrum live…