Tasktop

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Amazon and other tech g iants are able to iterate and improve during every development cycle and over potentially hundreds of products. Technical debt (removal of impediments to future delivery). If you could regularly address more features or debt work, for example, then this benefit begins to compound over time.

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The Agile Manager

MAY 31, 2021

But one thing I did not point out in last year’s blog is that a legacy modernization - even a sweeping one - falls into the category of utility tech not value-generative tech. In capital terms, the prior is equity, the latter is debt. Software ain’t cheap to buy, implement and live with.

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Tasktop

APRIL 2, 2020

A key pattern that is understood by the tech giants, who have mastered the Age of Software, is that of network effects and exponential growth. tech companies moved quickly to get staff working from home at the beginning of March. For those who haven’t read Project to Product , spoiler alert: The tech giants will do just fine.

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Tasktop

APRIL 8, 2021

The result is that the software delivery efficiency of these companies is abysmal when compared to that of digital startups or the tech giants. From concept to cash , defect to resolution , risk to mitigation and debt to pay-off , there’s now a playbook for shepherding your organization towards business goals and continuous improvement. .

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Tasktop

JULY 19, 2021

“As tech giants and startups disrupt every market, those who master large-scale software delivery will define the economic landscape of the 21st century, just as the masters of mass production defined the landscape in the 20th” Dr. Mik Kersten, CEO and founder Tasktop, author of Project to Product. appeared first on Tasktop Blog.

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Tasktop

MAY 3, 2019

Tech, coupled with the right minds and culture, is also the linchpin of innovation, enabling traditional enterprises to compete with more tech-savvy companies disrupting all and sundry. appeared first on Tasktop Blog. Keeping Up with the Pace of Change.

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Tasktop

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Investments in the long-term sustainability of a product are minimal (paying down tech debt, patching vulnerabilities). Use the right visual and semantic language with Product Management to ensure debt and risk mitigation work are not neglected in PI Planning. How to Avoid This Big Mistake appeared first on Tasktop Blog.

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Tasktop

JANUARY 27, 2021

Architecting around the flow of information, knowledge and value (instead of obsessing with tech layers and tool stacks). Debt : that impacts future delivery (as we take shortcuts for faster time-to-market, debt accumulates in both software and physical products. Get Software Delivery trends and insights in your inbox.

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Tasktop

JULY 17, 2019

For example: “Only feature work got done last month – we didn’t fix any defects or technical debt. ” When only feature type work gets approved, technical debt increases over time. Tech debt over time will eventually take you down. Make sure you invest in your future by allocating capacity to fix tech debt.

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Tasktop

AUGUST 19, 2019

Tech debt is similar to financial debt and risk items are similar to security costs. The post The Flow Framework™ – Defects as Warranty Costs appeared first on Tasktop Blog. Today, I’m going to discuss how defects are similar to warranty costs. . Why do we spend time fixing defects? Learn more.

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Tasktop

MAY 17, 2021

Technology : Improve Flow Efficiency by 10% (this metric is the percentage of time that your Flow Items (features, defects, debt, risk) are actively being worked on compared to the total time spent in the value stream) . The post Make Your OKRs Customer-Centric and Let the Value Flow appeared first on Tasktop Blog. Subscribe now.

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Tasktop

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The accumulation of technical debt. The Flow Institute —the first online community for implementing value stream management (VSM) with the Flow Framework® —offers a steady guiding hand, helping you to harness the rapid feedback loops for continuous improvement that serve the tech oligopoly so well. Imperfect tool implementations.

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Brendan Gregg

MARCH 18, 2022

Working for a famous tech company, I get asked a lot "Why don't you use technology X?" It made false claims in articles/blogs/talks and has lost credibility. " X may be an application, programming language, operating system, hypervisor, processor, or tool. It may be because: It performs poorly. It is too expensive.

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Tasktop

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The CIO Who Mistook Tech Debt for a Hat (and other Flow Diagnostics). The post Guess Who’s Back, Back Again…DevOps Enterprise Summit 2020, Las Vegas appeared first on Tasktop Blog. Nothing is off the record as Mik answers your burning questions on moving from project to product, Flow Metrics , value stream management and more!

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Tasktop

APRIL 8, 2021

He holds a Masters in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford, an MBA from Harvard, was a Director of Engineering at a nano-deposition tech company, before becoming an investor who then helped bring companies like Talend and BlackLine to IPO. You can see a demo for the VSM Portfolio Insights on the Tasktop Viz page. Subscribe now.

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Tasktop

JULY 2, 2019

On the other hand, the mindset of an Engineer is to design the most optimal solution for the problem in hand without incurring much risk (security, scalability, extensibility) or technical debt for the future. The post How to drive customer obsessed Product Development appeared first on Tasktop Blog.

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Tasktop

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

As the economic fallout triggered by COVID-19 increased, Mik and Shelley sat down and discussed advice to organizations on how they can survive and thrive at a business level during Covid-19, as well as examples of successful tech giants who understand their customers and are leveraging data to react faster to changes, and more. Listen now.

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Tasktop

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The allure of the project to product movement is that it offers real hope to global enterprises that they can master software delivery at scale and compete with the tech giants. Find artifacts in the toolset that can be identified as features, defects and debts. Identify the product value stream’s customers & pain points.

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Tasktop

JUNE 3, 2020

The four business-level metrics and Flow Distribution measure what matters in software delivery in a common language that business and IT leaders can understand, tracking four units of value (feature, defects, debt and risk) to determine: Flow Velocity: Is value delivery accelerating? . Flow Efficiency: Is waste decreasing in our processes?

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Tasktop

MAY 20, 2020

Moving fast is a necessity for enterprises looking to stand the pace with the tech giant oligopoly and other startup technologies disrupting most industries. Technical debt (improve the ability to accelerate future delivery). Defect (quality). Risk (security, governance, compliance).

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

At the same time you want new hires to stay long at the company, encourage them to question the existing tech decisions and come up with better ones. If you agree with the above you will benefit from ideas by people that aren’t sold to a specific technology, and can articulate pros and cons for different tech decisions.

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The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Ten years ago, when the mobile handset wars were in full swing, I wrote a blog analyzing the differences among the leaders in the space. And the defining feature of its collective mindset is complacency. What stands in the way of change? Resistance. That strategy worked for GE in the 1990s. It requires humility and a willingness to learn.

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Tasktop

MAY 23, 2019

As I gradually progressed to more complex bugs, tech debts, and user stories, the conceptual pieces started to fit together nicely. The post From Student to Junior Software Engineer at Tasktop appeared first on Tasktop Blog. How to optimize the software development Co-op/internship program . Recipe for an amazing internship.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Our previous blog post presented replay traffic testing — a crucial instrument in our toolkit that allows us to implement these transformations with precision and reliability. This blog post will delve into the techniques leveraged at Netflix to introduce these changes to production.

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

At the same time you want new hires to stay long at the company, encourage them to question the existing tech decisions and come up with better ones. If you agree with the above you will benefit from ideas by people that aren’t sold to a specific technology, and can articulate pros and cons for different tech decisions.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

This blog post will share broadly-applicable techniques (beyond GraphQL) we used to perform this migration. The Falcor API had become a logic-heavy monolith with over a decade of tech debt. This blog post is part of our Migrating Critical Traffic series.

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Tasktop

MARCH 16, 2021

Tech debt from evolving tools . The post 5 Reasons You Shouldn’t Attempt To Build Your Own Flow Metrics Tool appeared first on Tasktop Blog. The tool must have the ability to keep up with the constantly changing tool landscape: Inevitable changes to existing tool APIs and version updates that you don’t control. Subscribe now.

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Tasktop

MARCH 16, 2021

Tech debt from evolving tools . The post 5 Reasons You Shouldn’t Attempt To Build Your Own Flow Metrics Tool appeared first on Tasktop Blog. The tool must have the ability to keep up with the constantly changing tool landscape: Inevitable changes to existing tool APIs and version updates that you don’t control. Subscribe now.

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Tasktop

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Expanding on how defects impact product quality, risk work undermines customer trust, and tech debt impacts the ability to accelerate delivery of the key flow items, Mik drew on Tasktop’s experience on applying the Flow Framework. The very nature of working in tech means we have to constantly reinvent ourselves as technology changes.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Jeff: So being able to sort of spend your way out of certain problems, I think it’s hugely beneficial because tech debt gets a bad rap, but tech debt is no different than any debt. So unchecked tech debt is bad, right? It’s the trade off of acquiring something now and dealing with the pain later.

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Tasktop

OCTOBER 30, 2019

DOES and other tech events demonstrate that we’re not in short supply of great ideas, visionary people or cutting-edge technology to improve the way organizations build and deliver software. Key concepts that should be shared by both sides, such as technical debt, are not part of the common language.

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Strategic Tech

AUGUST 26, 2018

The domain expertise required in each context, the existing organisational structure, technical debt, the long-term business strategy, and hundreds of other factors can determine the optimal design at any point in time. So remember to always keep the chocolate sauce heuristic in mind: Classification is multi-dimensional.

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The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 26, 2011

There’s also the capital we can raise by getting loans and selling bonds (debt) or issuing shares (equity). Why not just leave the business to the business, and the tech to IT? This gives tech firms several degrees of freedom that firms in other industries simply don’t have. Firms acquire capital through many different means.

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