Introduction Welcome to the world of Agile DevOps! In this blog, we will discuss in detail about release planning and why it is important to ensure systematic and prioritized releases. Release planning is a kind of guideline that aligns to expectations of product owner and key stakeholders regarding which product or project features will be implemented and by when. Release plan serves as a base to monitor product/project development progress. This blog also covers some vital experiences from product owner certifications. What is Release Planning? Release planning gives stakeholders an idea about: When will certain amount of user stories be…
Learn the benefits of automating almost everything in your organization for unmatched business success.#AUTOMATE EVERYTHING TM The last few years of automation were dedicated to helping humans with high volume, repetitive, low complexity tasks that do not require major human intervention or decision making. As the world advanced technologically, the role of automation also became stronger. Most organizations are undertaking Artificial Intelligence (AL) and Machine Learning (ML) – some with mature objectives and execution plans and others with an idea of experimentation. Already 77% of the devices we use feature one form of AI or another.Source: Techjury Marketing automation on…
A good user experience (UX) is not possible without an excellent user interface (UI), but a great UI does not guarantee a great UX. Delivering a compelling customer experience is very important today due to the trends and standards that are already set in place by companies like Google, Netflix, Amazon, and younger companies like Squelch, Feedmusic, and Crypton, who are wowing customers each time they sign in. According to a Forrester research report, good UI improves visit-to-lead conversion by 200%, and great UX improves the same by a massive 400%. So, what is that magic ingredient that helps UI…
Investing in corporate social responsibility activities reflects the company's sense of responsibility towards the community and environment. In this day and age, most businesses, big or small, have made corporate social responsibility a business practice and this practice has helped them build a reputation as a responsible business, gain competitive advantage and do good by contributing to the society. Here are some statistics that prove how important CSR has become for businesses and society: 66% of consumers are willing to spend more on a product if it comes from a sustainable brand - Source: 2015 Nielsen Global Corporate Sustainability Report…
Introduction Welcome to the world of Agile DevOps! In this first blog of the series, we will have a detailed discussion on what Scrumban is and how it can be used to successfully execute a project. To be precise, Scrumban is an agile framework describing hybrids of Scrum and Kanban. It was originally designed as a way to transition from Scrum to Kanban and combines selective best practices of both Scrum and Kanban. It uses the inherent nature of Scrum to be agile for development work along with encouraging teams for following the lean philosophy of Kanban to eliminate wastes…
What does 'CLOUDIFY EVERYTHING TM' mean to us? Standing at the crossroads of digital transformation across all the industries, adopting Cloud as a focused strategy was an impending move. But how will Hexaware help customers maximize their benefits through Cloud? Today, it is important for an organization to be updated as there is a growing need for them to be able to respond to changing demands quickly, to be agile, scalable, cost effective, and provide an enhanced end user experience altogether. Cloud has the potential to deliver all these benefits and more. When we think of Cloud, we think of…
As evolution progresses from one human generation to the other, learning is the only constant in the change which will be seen in each of these generations. Organizations are also seeking innovative ways in which learning could be facilitated to its employees bringing in more effectiveness in their actions, which eventually would result in better performance and productivity of the individual at the workplace. Today in organizations, it is becoming increasingly difficult for learning professionals to find ways to not only help employees in organizations learn through the requirements, to perform their jobs, but is also as important in the…
Application Security had generally been an afterthought and applied as an add-on feature to enterprise applications in the traditional world of monolithic architectural styles. Today, more and more organizations are embracing a cloud-native approach where software is developed and composed from containerized microservices. According to recent research conducted by PureSec Ltd., serverless architectures have skyrocketed in the last couple of years with an annual growth rate of over 700%. With this growth, new challenges are introduced in monitoring end-to-end visibility and detection of security incidents. So, this trend has necessitated organizations to make fundamental changes in their security infrastructure and…
As more and more organizations have started moving from project-based to product-based delivery, an understanding about product roadmap as an approach to manage the strategic direction is not only gaining prominence but also evolving and mutating in form. This, in turn, is also adding some confusion among users with regards to the format, utility and applicability of the roadmap. This blog is an attempt to clarify certain aspects of the product roadmap, how it is created and, what problems it solves. We will try to clear the clutter and establish it as an easy-to-use artifact. What is product roadmap? A…
I had a chance to be the moderator for a client panel on the topic of Cloudification titled ‘Partly Cloudy with a chance of fog’ during our annual customer meet, ‘HexaRising 2019’! The setting was in Disney’s lovely Dolphin resort in sunny & warm Orlando – a stark contrast to the rest of the country which was recovering from the sub-zeros of the polar vortex. The topic was timely – It has been 10 years since Cloud as a term hit the Gartner hype cycle and while everyone now agrees about the relevance and importance of Cloud; making it work…
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