Ever increasing advances in technology and continuous process optimization techniques have helped ensure that the global supply chain runs efficiently, turning raw materials into products that make their way to physical stores and ecommerce warehouses. However, we’ve witnessed how an outside disturbance like a pandemic or flood can fracture the supply chain, throwing businesses and…
The vendor-neutral Open Group Architecture Forum has launched the 10th edition of its TOGAF standard this week, with the latest edition of the popular enterprise architecture framework being given a modular redesign aimed at easing adoption for practitioners. The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) has been around since 1995 and aims to help organize the…
Greater Wellington Regional Council CTO Sue McLean on how agile transformed team culture
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Jason Schmitt, General Manager, Synopsys Software Integrity Group It has been said that every business is a software business. But what does that mean? Becoming a software business entails both reward and risks. The reward is a competitive edge; the risks are often misunderstood and poorly managed at the highest levels of leadership. In this…
Undertaking a top-to-bottom modernization of a dusty enterprise stack can feel a bit like scaling a mountain. At least that has been the experience of Backcountry CTO Sridhar Nallani, who was hired in 2020 specifically to overhaul the online retailer’s digital presence. Despite nearly $1 billion in online revenue in 2020, the web-based outdoor recreational…
The microservice deployment and management stack is proving very effective for companies taking advantage of the cloud’s capabilities to scale and adapt. Containers (often alongside Kubernetes tooling) fit well, too, with agile DevOps and CI/CD workflows that transition code from development to production in short timescales. A significant problem with the speed of transition from…
The logical progression from the virtualization of servers and storage in VSANs was hyperconvergence. By abstracting the three elements of storage, compute, and networking, data centers were promised limitless infrastructure control. That promised ideal was in keeping with the aims of hyperscale operators needing to grow to meet increased demand and that had to modernize…
After launching industry-specific data lakehouses for the retail, financial services and healthcare sectors over the past three months, Databricks is releasing a solution targeting the media and the entertainment (M&E) sector. Now generally available, the M&E data lakehouse comes with industry use-case specific features that the company calls accelerators, including real-time personalization, said Steve Sobel,…
It’s no secret that companies face major hurdles and risks when it comes to global supply chains. The hurdles include pandemic-related disruptions, short product life cycles, quickly changing consumer preferences, growing regulations, and resource volatility. One way to protect against disruptions and manage increasingly complex supply chains is to enhance collaboration with suppliers by committing…
The Church of Agile is being corrupted from within by institutional forces that have refused or been unable to adapt to the radical humanity embodied in its collaborative, self-organizing, cross-functional teams. A hollowed-out husk of Scrum concealing taskmasters of Waterfall is the Trojan Horse of this betrayal. With Waterfall methods masquerading as Scrum — call…