Businesses constantly look for ways to streamline data management and get more value from their data. One popular approach is virtualization, which runs many virtual resources on a single physical one. Virtualization has many benefits, including increased efficiency, scalability, and cost savings. Two types of virtualization that are commonly used in data management are data virtualization and database […]
Ever wondered how mature your IT & Test Environment Management practices are? Well, here at Enov8, over the last few years, we have been building a model called the EMMi (the Environment Management Maturity Index) Originally called the TEMMi, the EMMi is designed to help organisations understand the big picture, openly discuss capabilities using a […]
Every release carries risk. A team can test in staging, review the code, and run the deployment pipeline successfully, yet still introduce a regression, broken integration, or unexpected performance issue in production. When that happens, the team needs a reliable way to restore service. A deployment rollback returns an application or service to a previously […]
It’s a great step when teams deliberately manage their deployments instead of treating them as second-class citizens to writing code. But there are many pitfalls to managing deployments effectively. Many things lurk, waiting to trip us up. We want to start with a guiding light: to automate our deployments completely from a push of code […]
The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is a comprehensive set of principles and practices designed to help organizations adopt agile methods on an enterprise level. It provides a set of guidelines and best practices that enable large-scale product development with agility. At its core, SAFe has a hierarchical structure, which assigns different roles and responsibilities in […]
If you work in an organization that uses the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), chances are it’s not a small company. It’s enterprise-y. It’s probably gone through some growing pains, which is a good problem to have in the business sense. The good news is that the spirit of agile is alive within the organization, but […]