Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2020

In this blog we’re going to cover some of the recent, sometimes daily experiences I’ve encountered within Government and Federal agencies to demonstrate the role the Dynatrace platform plays to address these barriers and how agencies can leverage Dynatrace as an invaluable resource that contributes to DevSecOps success. The post DevSecOps: Recent experiences in field of Federal & Government appeared first on Dynatrace blog. Dynatrace news. Introduction.

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Tasktop

OCTOBER 20, 2020

“To service citizens well, governments will need to be more integrated. William Eggers, Mike Turley, Government Trends 2020, Deloitte Insights, 2019. From AI to the cloud, to predictive analytics and innovative systems, there are few places that software isn’t impacting the government.

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Dynatrace

MAY 11, 2020

When the Australian Federal Government set its 2025 vision to be a world leader in the delivery of digital services, nobody predicted the coronavirus pandemic was around the corner. Every industry is impacted by the pandemic, but around the world, one industry, in particular, is the Government. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the progress of this change as government agencies are now, more than ever, realizing the benefits of fast-tracking digital transformation.

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The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

In the previous blog , we looked at common misconceptions of IT governance. We also looked at how corporate governance works to better understand what governance is and is not. In this blog, we'll look at how we can implement more comprehensive governance in tech projects. For corporate tech investments, the top most governing body is the firm's investment committee. People who govern delivery do so on behalf of investors, not delivery.

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The Agile Manager

JUNE 30, 2020

Since 2006, I've written multiple blog posts , a few articles and self-published an e-book on governing investments in strategic software. Being an act of capital allocation, it has always struck me odd that most corporate captive IT organizations and tech firms self-govern the transformation of capital into software. In practice, software development governance is clubby, even more clubby than most corporate boards where the CEO has hand-picked the directors. IT Governance

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The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2013

The word "governance" is misused in IT, particularly in software development. Governance is neither of these things. By extension, this makes it a form of self-regulation, and defines governance as nothing more than a fancy word for management. This body doesn't govern. The second interpretation relegates governance to an overhead role that polices the organization, searching for violations of rules and policies. Well, what does it mean to govern?

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The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Industries are regulated by governments so that companies don't compromise the public interest. In the same way, we have governance within businesses to make sure that management doesn't compromise the interest of investors. And just as it is with businesses in a regulated industry, management of a well-governed business may have a set of priorities that are perfectly justifiable in management's context, but are orthogonal to investor's interests.

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The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 28, 2007

This suggests strongly that “how work is done” is an essential IT governance question. That is, IT governance must not be concerned only with measuring results, but also knowing that that the way in which those results are achieved is in compliance with practices that minimise the probability of failure. One of our governance objectives must be that we are cognisant of how solutions are being delivered everywhere in the enterprise, because this is an indicator of their completeness.

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The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 16, 2009

We’re pleased to present Real Time Governance , a follow-on webinar that extends the concepts to their next stage of evolution. I’ve had the opportunity to present the Governance material with my ThoughtWorks colleagues Jane Robarts and David Leigh-Fellows in Calgary, Toronto (which was recorded and is available on InfoQ ) and San Francisco. Agile Management IT Governance Leadership PMO Strategic ITOctober is normally a heads-down month.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

When the AWS Europe (Zurich) Region is launched, developers, start-ups, and enterprises, as well as government, education, and non-profit organizations will be able to run their applications and serve end users across the region from data centers located in Switzerland

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DZone

JANUARY 13, 2021

The only way to keep the Dutch at home is by grounding their offspring , as our government has discovered twice over. So, after spending two weeks dreading the end of the holiday season, last week marked the start of the second homeschooling season in a year.

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The Agile Manager

DECEMBER 31, 2018

The Financial Times recently ran a long article describing the breakdown of governance over the Crossrail development , the first new underground railway in London in over a century. Good governance is usually only appreciable by its absence, but the Crossrail case allows a before / after contrast between the presence of good and, after the sacking of a key board member, the presence of bad. As a case study in governance, the FT article is an analysis very much worth reading.

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Dynatrace

JULY 30, 2020

Upon this backdrop, Dynatrace has just received its FedRAMP moderate impact level authorization , which is available for our f ederal customers through our new Dynatrace for Government offering. . About Dynatrace for Government : . Dynatrace news.

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Simform

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

You need to take care of insurance, vehicle maintenance, compliance with government regulations, etc. Managing a fleet is a challenge. Amongst all these challenges, the biggest one is - monitoring your fuel costs. You may ask, why?

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Simform

DECEMBER 31, 2020

From private organizations to government agencies, everybody wants to embrace a mobile-first approach as it streamlines business goals, agile processes, feedback, and implementation among other intricate functions. .

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The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 28, 2015

A few years ago, I felt I had enough experience - and had put enough thought into the subject - to write a book on governance in software development. I had observed that most tech firms and captive IT organizations are largely left to self-govern, and both are pretty light touch about it. I had also observed that governance is widely misunderstood and the term is used in technology in a lot of different ways, almost universally incorrectly. IT Governance Strategic IT

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Businesses large and small, governments new and old all had to completely change what they do and how they operate. 2021 is going to be a launchpad for change, and here’s what’s coming. 2020 was a year unlike any other.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

This new region, which is located on the West Coast of the US, helps US government agencies and contractors move more of their workloads to the cloud by implementing a number of US government-specific regulatory requirements. Our government customers sometimes have an additional layer of regulatory requirements given that they at times deal with highly sensitive information, such as defense-related data. Government and Big Data. All Things Distributed.

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The Agile Manager

DECEMBER 31, 2015

There is no law or reason governing why I was there at the moment the battery exploded, or for the battery to have exploded at precisely that moment. The landscape of strategic software investing and governance is riddled with speculation. IT Governance Risk ManagementEarlier this year, my house should have burned to the ground. A CR2032 battery exploded and caught fire in a confined place dense with flammable objects.

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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2014

As it happens, it will go largely unnoticed because neither the concept of technical debt nor its commercial ramifications are well understood by the (average) business buyer of software, and because IT governance remains weak in practice. IT Finance IT Governance Strategic ITThe growth in demand for software has consistently outpaced the growth in the supply of software developers. This has been the case for well over half a century. It's worth looking at why.

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The Agile Manager

JUNE 30, 2016

A few years ago, I wrote about the chronic misuse of the word "governance" in technology. When we think in shareholder activism terms, we understand the importance of good governance structures and mechanics, and the need for diligence by those investing in the business through technology. IT Governance Strategic ITThe word "portfolio" is suffering the same fate.

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The Agile Manager

MAY 19, 2010

An ounce of good governance is worth a pound of project rescue. Agile practices, with their emphasis on transparency, business alignment and technical completion, are enablers of better IT governance. An Agile organization needs a new approach to governance, one that makes everybody think not as caretakers of a project but investors in a business outcome. What you will learn What are the principles of IT governance? What kind of governance does Agile enable and demand?

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TechBeacon Testing

APRIL 29, 2020

From online retail to finance, and from streaming entertainment to healthcare providers and agencies, all manner of businesses and government entities have seen their web traffic and app activity explode. COVID-19 has changed everything for many organizations, and it did so overnight, with no time to prepare. App Dev & Testing, Testing, Pandemic, Performance Engineering, Performance Testing

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The Agile Manager

JUNE 30, 2012

A steady diet of reliable data about the software we're developing and how the delivery of that software is progressing allow a steering committee to continuously and fluidly perform its governance obligations. This, in turn, gives us information to act on the last governance responsibility, which we do by changing team structure, composition and even leadership, and working with the investment committee to maintain viability of the investment itself.

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The Agile Manager

MAY 31, 2012

We assume, not only that good procedure will give rise to good outcome, but also that the ability to articulate the procedure is the key to good outcomes. -- John Kay, writing in the Financial Times A common error in both the management and governance of IT is an over-reliance on rules, process and "best practices" that portend to give us a means for modeling and controlling delivery. Best practices" are held out as the basis of IT governance. Agile Management IT Governance

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DZone

OCTOBER 14, 2019

I've been investigating US federal lobbying using Open Data published by the US government. We'll help you improve performance! You may also like: 7 Simple Ways to Improve Website and Database Performance. Overview. I developed a program that loads the lobbying filing data into Neo4J , but severe performance problems reduced how much data could be loaded; the time required increased as filings were persisted to the point that one calendar year quarter could take over six hours.

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DZone

JULY 29, 2019

In today's world, data is generated in high volumes and to make something out of it, extracted data is needed to be transformed, stored, maintained, governed and analyzed. These processes are only possible with a distributed architecture and parallel processing mechanisms that Big Data tools are based on. One of the top trending open-source data storage that responds to most of the use cases is Elasticsearch.

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The Agile Manager

DECEMBER 31, 2013

IT Governance Leadership"Much complexity has been deliberately created, to encourage consumers to pay more than they need, or expected." John Kay, The Wrong Sort of Competition in Energy Modern software assets are complex in both their technical composition and their means of creation.

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

The advanced analytics provided by Greenplum is being used across many verticals, including finance, manufacturing, automotive, government, energy, education, retail, and so on, to address a wide variety of problems. For example, a Government fraud revenue retention company is leveraging Greenplum machine learning capabilities along with GemFire to perform large scale fraud detection to prevent identity theft, detecting and retaining $5B annually and processing 8 million cases a day.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 12, 2019

At the Spinnaker Summit in 2018, we announced that we had adopted a formalized project governance plan with Google. Spinnaker’s previously defined governance policy remains in place. Author: Andy Glover Since releasing Spinnaker to the open source community in 2015 , the platform has flourished with the addition of new cloud providers, triggers, pipeline stages, and much more.

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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 30, 2012

Beyond just being a rational thing to do, policy dictates that we have a business case: the rules governing capitalization require that we explicitly define what we expect to achieve, at what cost, for what benefit, over what time. A good business case is critical to governance, portfolio management and execution. IT Governance Strategic IT

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 20, 2020

A data lake is a centralized secure repository that allows you to store, govern, discover, and share all of your structured and unstructured data at any scale. Back when Jeff Bezos filled orders in his garage and drove packages to the post office himself, crunching the numbers on costs, tracking inventory, and forecasting future demand was relatively simple.

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The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2012

IT Governance Strategic IT“If a builder builds a house for a man and does not make its construction firm, and the house which he has built collapses and causes the death of the owner of the house, that builder shall be put to death.” Clearly, the Babylonians understood that the builder will always know more about the risks than the client, and can hide fragilities and improve his profitability by cutting corners—in, say, the foundation.

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The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2012

IT Governance Risk Management Strategic ITWhen a company engages in custom software development, it is making an investment into itself. Company executives decide to convert capital into software because they believe that the resulting software will make the business better. How we make that investment decision is crucial to the success of the investment. Our first investment decision is based solely on an idea.

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Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2020

Over the last two month s, w e’ve monito red key sites and applications across industries that have been receiving surges in traffic , including government, health insurance, retail, banking, and media. state governments and global COVID -19 portals . f ederal sites as well as other government sites around the world, expecting to see an increase of traffic due to COVID -19. Dynatrace news.

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The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

The rules governing capital expenditure are pretty strict. The annual budgeting cycle that still governs companies sets an expectation that operations, IT included, will perform consistently with a big, up-front plan. IT Governance Restructuring IT Strategic ITIn the first installment , we had a look at how the CFO is primarily concerned with consistent cash flow so that the business can service long-term financing obligations.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

It also means adapting governance processes and investing in hiring and educating a collaborative workforce who are versed in engineering and operations, and who learn and adapt quickly. Dynatrace news.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region is our second AWS GovCloud (US) Region, joining AWS GovCloud (US-West) to further help US government agencies, the contractors that serve them, and organizations in highly regulated industries move more of their workloads to the AWS Cloud by implementing a number of US government-specific regulatory requirements.

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The Agile Manager

APRIL 26, 2010

Whether our business is govered by GAAP or IAS , the rules that govern capitalization of intangible assets such as software require us to define our investment intention. Finally, and most importantly, we’ve learned that Agile IT requires Agile governance. Agile Management IT Governance Risk ManagementIt's pretty well established that Agile and Lean IT are more operationally efficient than traditional IT. Agile teams tend to commit fewer unforced errors, and don't defer work.

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The Agile Manager

DECEMBER 29, 2011

IT Governance Strategic ITInvestments in infrastructure, whether public transport or IT applications, tend to lack hard numbers because they are a means to an end and not an end in themselves. We have transport to enable people to travel to work and allow goods to reach markets. Captive IT departments produce systems that enable us to conduct business faster and more efficiently and at larger scale. In the absence of hard measures, we concoct soft ones.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 30, 2019

Starting today, developers, startups, and enterprises, as well as government, education, and non-profit organizations can run their applications and serve end users across the region from data centers located in the Middle East. I'm happy to announce today that the new AWS Middle East (Bahrain) Region is now open!

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The Agile Manager

MAY 13, 2009

This, in turn, means that businesses are being completely restructured in how they are capitalized, organized, managed and governed. One covers challenge of change management during restructure , the other governing restructure. Agile Management Change Management IT Governance Restructuring ITGlobal business faces unprecedented changes.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Federal Sales Engineer, I often find myself explaining to government customers that Dynatrace provides Software Intelligence in your data center or on-prem cloud environment, monitoring all your mission-critical systems and bringing automatic, context-aware AI power in house. Dynatrace provides the following solutions for government customers that fit a variety of needs. Dynatrace news.

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