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What a ‘Good Plan’ Really Means for AI Coding Agents

Explore how AI coding agents are transforming software development. This article discusses the importance of clear objectives, runnable tasks, and continuous validation in planning to ensure that the transition from idea to produc…

Feb 18, 20263 min

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Jan12

Beyond the Prompt: A Quality-First Framework for AI-Assisted Engineering

Discover strategies for managing AI-generated technical debt and maintaining quality in software delivery as engineering teams accelerate their development processes.

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Nov04

Blogs

DevOps Workflow: The Key Elements and Tools Involved

What does a modern DevOps workflow look like? Click to learn about the essential elements, tools, and practices involved in the effective work process.

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Oct23

Blogs

Why Nano Updates Only Work if You Begin with the Latest and Greatest Software

Is there a silent threat of technical debt looming in your organization? You probably should take a deeper look. Modern software systems are composed of hundreds of interdependent…

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Oct14

Blogs

Secure By Design, Secure by Default

“Shift left” alone won’t secure software. Real security must be embedded continuously across design, development, and production—not just moved earlier.

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Aug06

Blogs

From Incidents to Insights: The Power of Blameless Postmortems

Blameless post-mortems flip the script, transforming incidents into structured opportunities for learning, accountability and resilience.

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Jan30

Blogs

Driving Quality and Efficiency in QA With Kaizen and Project Management Best Practices

Kaizen, a philosophy of continuous improvement that, when combined with collaboration and visionary leadership, can turn QA teams into well-oiled machines of productivity and innov…

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Feb09

Application Performance Management/Monitoring

How Can DevOps Teams Use Customer Intelligence Data?

DevOps can use the insights drawn from customer intelligence in addition to its use informing business strategy, product development and marketing.

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Nov15

Blogs

Why IT Teams Need Continuous Improvement

In the dynamic world of software delivery, an ‘if it’s not broke don’t fix it’ philosophy won’t get you very far—even when your software and systems are working as planned. Softwar…

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Oct11

5 Ways to Transform DataOps With Human-in-the-Loop Automation

We are in the middle of a data renaissance. Today, it’s not just about data instrumentation but also learning how to make DataOps a real business advantage for the entire organizat…

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Jun20

Blogs

Not Everything That is Necessary Adds Value

Since the Lean production method for manufacturing arose in the 1930s, organizations everywhere have been seeking ways to apply it to reduce waste and increase productivity. This m…

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Sep17

Blogs

Empowering Teams to Make Mission: Impossible Possible

“Your mission, should you choose to accept it….” That’s the way the original Mission: Impossible TV show and, later, the movie series drew us in. The bad guy’s operation was explai…

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Jul28

Continuous Delivery

EP 10: Observability & Continuous Improvement

Observability at enterprise scale brings with it additional application life cycle management requirements. Success requires knowing which changes result in improvements and which…

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Jun17

Blogs

Learning ‘The Third Way’ of DevOps – Continuous Improvement

I refer to the third way of DevOps–continuous experimentation and learning, as simply continuous improvement. In some sense, there is no way to learn the third way of DevOps becaus…

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Jun01

Blogs

Then and Now: The Evolution of DevOps Culture

There are many available resources dedicated to delivering better business value faster. Based on this advice, many organizations and teams are adopting common software delivery pr…

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Jul06

Blogs

Data and Tools Don’t Solve Problems, People Do

When developing software, many managers believe that data and tools will solve all their problems. If they just have enough data or the right data analysis tools, development and d…

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Jun11

Blogs

Review, Review, Review

Ossification is an issue in IT, and always has been. It is borne largely out of staff and management knowing what to expect from existing software/infrastructure, and the deep prod…

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May22

Blogs

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 curren…

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May05

Blogs

Enterprise Kanban Implementation: Where to Start and How to Scale Across an Organization

The Evolution of Kanban At its core, Kanban is a management method designed to improve customer satisfaction by creating fast and reliable workflows capable of delivering products…

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Mar20

Blogs

How to Properly Approach Automation

Imagine if you backed out of your driveway, tapped the gas and BAM! You are at work. Nothing to worry about along the way, no traffic congestion, no other cars to worry about, etc.…

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Mar18

Blogs

Scaling DevOps for the Enterprise

Information technology has been an integral piece of the modern enterprise for multiple decades and that dependency is only growing. With digital transformation, there’s the inevit…

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Jan03

Blogs

Leadership Role in Adding Test Automation to Existing Environments

Leadership is the foundation for all agility. I’ve written elsewhere extensively on a model that works well for the new environment in which we find ourselves: the need for tens or…

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Dec23

Blogs

Predictions 2020: The Year of DevOps Empowerment

Every year since mid-decade, it seems, one publication or another has declared it to be “the year of DevOps.” Allow me to make the case that it really will happen in 2020. The reas…

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Nov19

Blogs

Operational Excellence and the Success of Software Deployments

When we talk about best practices for software reliability, the conversation tends to focus on optimizing the applications themselves and the infrastructure that hosts them. The dr…

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