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How to Implement Agile in Operations
Understanding how to implement Agile in operations teams is one of the most valuable skills for any modern organization. Once upon a time, Agile was more or less exclusively a software development methodology. Nowadays, it’s quickly becoming the norm across all kinds of teams and departments. In particular, IT and operations teams are increasingly turning to Agile to take advantage of quicker turnaround times, lower overheads, and enhanced ability to meet real-world business challenges - among plenty of other benefits.
Ronan McQuillan
Jun 12, 2023
IT Operations (IT Ops) | In-Depth Guide
The IT operations team are the unsung heroes of just about every medium to large organization. Indeed, the reality is that - without effective IT ops - it’s unlikely that your wider team will ever reach its potential. Actually, the chances are that you’ll quickly find yourself struggling to keep up with your competitors. Today, we’re delving into everything you need to know at a practical level. We’ll cover all of the important theory around what IT operations involves, what it achieves, who is responsible, and how it’s managed.
Ronan McQuillan
Jun 12, 2023
May 2023 Product Update
Multiplayer collaboration Today we’re thrilled to announce multiplayer collaboration support for the data section within Budibase. Now, multiple users can work together to connect to data sources, customize schemas, and update data within our new spreadsheet-like grid, all at the same time. Learn how to add collaborators Autocomplete bindings Bindings offer a powerful way to link data within Budibase. With our latest update, binding data has never been easier / faster.
Joe Johnston
Jun 11, 2023
How to Build a Workload Management Tool in 7 Steps
Nowadays, your workload management tool is at the center of your daily operations. In the age of remote, distributed teams, effective oversight and coordination is everything. And the market has responded. In fact, there are countless platforms out there trying to fill this niche. The only trouble is that every company has its own unique requirements and challenges. Therefore, COTS vendors typically cast the widest net possible - aiming to provide value for the largest number of buyers rather than fully meeting more individualized requirements.
Ronan McQuillan
Jun 2, 2023
What is Agile Digital Transformation?
Agile digital transformation is a key part of the way modern businesses achieve optimal efficiency, productivity, and cost-effectiveness within internal processes. Indeed, applying the Agile methodology to transformation is kind of an obvious fit. As we’ll see today, Agile is a versatile, effective way to reach our transformation goals - and ensure that we actually provide business value in doing so. This last point is critical. The reality is that a huge proportion of transformation projects miss deadlines, go over budget, or simply fail to achieve what they set out to do.
Ronan McQuillan
Jun 2, 2023
What is API Integration? In-Depth Guide
What is API integration is probably one of the most common questions in the world of web app development. In fact, this is central to how almost all modern software ecosystems work, so it’s vital that you know what you’re dealing with. See, businesses today deal with a greater number of tools, data sets, and services than ever before. Managing this fact requires a high degree of integration. That is, all of these different nodes in our tool stack need to be able to talk to each other in order to pass data or other instructions back and forth - otherwise we’d face a mountain of boring and expensive admin work.
Ronan McQuillan
Jun 2, 2023
Application Transformation | 4 Strategies
Application transformation is one of the most ubiquitous tasks for IT teams in large organizations. The unfortunate reality for many enterprises is that old, outdated software makes up a huge proportion of their internal tool base. This creates a huge number of technical and operational challenges. Chief among these is the fact that your internal processes are based around tools that aren’t up to modern standards. In turn, this hampers your processes’ efficiency, security, productivity, accuracy, and ultimately profitability.
Ronan McQuillan
May 12, 2023
Build a Digital Enablement Strategy in 5 Steps
Digital enablement has been a bit of a buzzphrase for quite a while now. The only trouble is that it can be a bit of a challenge to understand what anyone actually means by this. See, there’s a lot of chatter out there but a lot of it is fairly nebulous. As in, there’s a lot of fluff and not a lot of substance. This is a shame because digital enablement remains one of the most underlooked aspects of modern ops management.
Ronan McQuillan
May 12, 2023