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Software Development & Release Management

Value Stream Management: Real value, or another catch phrase?

Value Stream Management: Real value, or another catch phrase?

The term “Value Stream Management” is not new.  In fact, it has been part of the Lean Manufacturing philosophy and practice since 1998. As with many other excellent manufacturing practices, we appropriated the concept in software development and the services...

How CloudBees Uses Feature Management to Gain Competitive Advantage

How CloudBees Uses Feature Management to Gain Competitive Advantage

In this whitepaper, you’ll discover how CloudBees Feature Management Flags can help you gain a competitive advantage in the market.  Discover CloudBees Feature Management In this CloudBees Feature flag whitepaper, you’ll learn: How to increase your developer...

Moving Code Corp to the Atlassian Cloud

Moving Code Corp to the Atlassian Cloud

Code Corp has around 250 users of their Atlassian suite and specializes in high-performance barcode readers and scanning software. This hardware and software provide data capture for many different industries and use cases. Additionally, they power track-and-trace...

AWS re:Invent 2022: Everything You Need To Know

AWS re:Invent 2022: Everything You Need To Know

Miss out on AWS re:Invent 2022? Or, just looking for a recap on the latest AWS updates and releases from the event? Check out the summary below. What is AWS re:Invent? AWS re:Invent is an annual conference hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS) for developers, customers,...

Solving for the “Islands of Jenkins”

Solving for the “Islands of Jenkins”

In October 2022, I wrote a blog post entitled “Scaling Jenkins for the Enterprise”.  Within it, I described the “Islands of Jenkins” problem organizations face. Essentially, this problem stems from companies using an open-source Jenkins installation for each team, but...

The Top Reasons to Pick Premium Atlassian Cloud Plans

The Top Reasons to Pick Premium Atlassian Cloud Plans

As I engage with clients in their journey to Atlassian Cloud, I am often asked about capabilities that differentiate the different Atlassian Cloud plans.  “What’s the difference between Standard, Premium, and Enterprise?”  Because there has been a theme to the...

Latest Atlassian Product News from Q4 2022

Latest Atlassian Product News from Q4 2022

As we do every quarter, SPK’s team reviews the latest Atlassian product updates.  In this blog post, we’ll cover announcements that happened between September 2022 and December 2022.  As you probably know, Atlassian updates their Cloud and on-premise products on a...

2022 Technology Year in Review

2022 Technology Year in Review

In the past 3 years, our world has definitely changed.  This year was no exception.  From the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic to the great resignation, businesses have had to adapt to changing government regulations, employee needs, and methods of doing business. ...

Enabling DevOps with Bitbucket Pipelines

Enabling DevOps with Bitbucket Pipelines

We’re familiar with how computing has evolved throughout the years. On-premises servers have shifted to the cloud. And, cloud providers now offer a higher level of services and applications. Additionally, software build processes also experienced a similar evolution....

Modernize Your Manufacturing Supply Chain With Microsoft Tools

Modernize Your Manufacturing Supply Chain With Microsoft Tools

A recent report found that one-third of all frontline manufacturing employees didn’t feel they had the right technological tools to effectively do their job. That’s an alarming stat given the already unpredictable nature of the workforce and supply chain challenges...

Improve Work Quality With SolidWorks Automation

Improve Work Quality With SolidWorks Automation

There are many customization options for SOLIDWORKS and SOLIDWORKS PDM to make your life easier. But, there are also plenty of out-of-the-box SOLIDWORKS automation checks too. And, these solutions are readily available to make your engineer’s life easier....