integration horror stories
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Integration Horror StoriesOctober 26, 2016
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Betty Zakheim
VP Industry Strategy Tasktop
30 Years in Software Development and Delivery
Professional Scrum Master
Our Speakers
Sarah Ryan
Marketing Operations Manager
Marketing Automation and Task Management Software Junkie
Voted Most Likely To Come Up With a Silly Webinar Theme
Tasktop – Connecting the Application Lifecycle
201120092007 2013 2014
2,000,000
Created first software lifecycle bus
Created Task Management Category
De facto ALM integration for developers
Defined Software Lifecycle Integration
Created first lifecycle data aggregator
200,000
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DevOpsIntegration Platform
PPM Ops Agile at Scale
Tasktop Gateway
Scaling DevOps
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Silly webinar, serious issues
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Lack of Integration
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Time spent on email and status meetings is time not spent coding, testing, deploying, defining requirements….
Productivity Vampires
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Time spent rekeying information turns bright minds into zombies.
Swivel Seat Zombies
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Manual (re)work is costing you a horror-ble amount of money!
Reality Check – Lack of Integration
Number of developers 1200
Number of testers 300
Total users 1500
Working hours per week 38
Minutes saved per user per week 100
Productivity increase 4.4%
Total direct delivery costs $225,000,000
Delivery value add factor 1
Additional value delivered (per year) $9,868,421
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DIY Integration
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What’s lurking behind those APIs?
Just because the system has an API, it doesn’t mean you have the keys to the kingdom. You thought you had a roadmap but you don’t.
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Spider Web of Point-to Point Integration
Point-to-point integrations are expensive to build and maintain.
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Spider Web of Point-to Point Integration
Point-to-point integrations can impact application performance.
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It may seem easy, but it’s prone to failure
It’s not simply a technical challenge, it requires..
In-depth knowledge of the tools,
How they work and
How they should work together
Reality Check – DIY Integration
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Lightweight Solutions
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Mirroring artifacts without the relationships removes all the context. This leaves you a pile of artifacts.
Pile of Bones
Skeleton with no context
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Mirroring artifacts without the relationships removes all the context. This leaves you a pile of artifacts.
Artifact Relationship Management
Story A
Epic
Story B
Defect
Test Case
Story A
Epic
Story BDefect
Test Case
Epic
Defect
Story A
Defect
Story A
Epic
Story BDefect
Test Case
Story A
Epic
Story BDefect
Test Case
Story A
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A quick demo may not reveal shortcomings
Initial license costs are a small fraction of the cost to deploy
Reality Check – Lightweight Solutions
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Zombies are projects that, for any number of reasons, fail to fulfill their promise and yet keep shuffling along, sucking up resources without any real hope of having a meaningful impact on the company’s strategy or revenue prospects.
Zombie (Transformation) Project
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Project Managers OperationsBusiness Analysts TestersDevelopers
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Eliminate your horror stories:Automate the flow of work among colleagues, reducing wasted time and aggravation
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Initiative/Feature Requirements
Tests
Defects
PPM
Requirements
Req. Mgmt
User StoriesDefects
Agile Planning
Changesets
Version Control
Build
CI
Trouble Ticket
Service Desk
Test Management
Release
Release Mgmt
Vulnerability
Validation
Alerts
APM
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