Estimating the effort required for projects can be challenging, but Agile project management offers solutions to simplify the process. This comprehensive guide covers how to manage estimation in an Agile environment and explores popular methods for estimating with Agile teams. 

The world of IT Service Management (ITSM) is constantly evolving, and as organizations adopt DevOps principles and practices, there is a need to adapt traditional ITSM frameworks to keep up. This white paper offers an expert blueprint on how to deliver ITSM success by combining the principles of Agile and DevOps with strong ITSM frameworks like ITIL. 

This white paper discusses the increasing adoption of DevOps in the public sector as government agencies recognize its benefits in improving software development speed and efficiency. It highlights the challenges of implementing new processes in this highly regulated sector and offers a guide to help overcome these challenges. 

There are numerous Agile processes and principles available to choose from, but attempting to implement all of them is impractical and unnecessary. To simplify the process, it is best to focus on the essential principles that will aid in creating business agility. This article will identify ten crucial principles, or building blocks, to help organizations create a culture of agility. Any attempts to improve agility, whether through processes, workflows, or tool configurations, should be assessed against these principles.

In today's fast-paced world, time is a precious commodity that we can't afford to waste. As businesses strive to be more efficient and productive, automation has become an essential tool for success. This white paper is packed with more than 30 ideas that will inspire you to automate your processes and protect your valuable time. With these ideas, you'll be able to automate across a range of topics, including information recency, input control, communications, instant time savings, user and role-based automations, and streamlined issue journeys. 

Over time, Confluence can become cluttered with outdated content, confusing navigation, and unnecessary information, taking up valuable storage. These issues can cause problems if left unaddressed, making it difficult for users to find the information they need and reducing the overall usefulness of the platform. This guide is a step-by-step plan to help you clean up and reorganize your Confluence content using native features and more advanced tricks with ScriptRunner for Confluence.

Mocking, a technique that involves creating simulated environments to mimic service behavior, offers opportunities for developers and testers to ensure high quality throughout the software development lifecycle. In this ebook, you'll learn that by leveraging mocking, teams can establish sandbox environments and effectively simulate service behaviors, contributing to the overall quality of the developed applications. 

In this webinar, Thad West, CEO of Isos Technology, discusses the evolution of DevOps with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) experts. The webinar covers the evolution of DevOps roles and responsibilities within an organization, key performance metrics for Site Reliability Engineering, SLO quality gates, and the importance of both "shift left" and "shift right" approaches to DevOps. 

Due to the fast-paced nature of today's business world, where demands are high and resources are limited, it's crucial to enhance work efficiency. Thankfully, Jira Core, Service Desk, and Jira Workflow Management offer exceptional software solutions to manage issues, tasks, processes, and projects. However, the extensive range of specialized applications, or "apps, " elevates these already outstanding products," that can be integrated into your Jira instance.

Learn about Opsgenie's features and how to improve operational efficiency with the platform through a comprehensive introduction. The webinar also covers how to transition from PagerDuty to Opsgenie with things like exporting your data, setting up integrations with existing tools, and configuring on-call schedules and escalation policies in Opsgenie.

Agile Project Management is an iterative and incremental approach to software development projects supported by a cross-functional team. It allows for flexibility and frequent delivery of product iterations, and enables teams to respond to changes quickly. Agile follows a framework, with detailed project planning and estimation for each sprint before execution. Accurate estimation is important for planning and managing the effort to deliver a new feature or product.  This extensive article covers four methods for estimating work: Planning Poker, Asynchronous, Relative Estimation, and Bucket Sizing, with explanations on how to use each approach.

This white paper helps with understanding what successful continuous delivery and continuous deployment look like. Takeaways include discovering the benefits of CI/CD for your organization, understanding the business challenges it can solve, gaining an overview of successful CI/CD implementation, and learning how to measure its success.