Guide to CMMC
CMMC Buyer’s Guide Why CMMC? CMMC is a DoD-mandated set of cybersecurity standards that will be required by all defense industrial base (DIB) companies starting for some once Congressional ruling-making is completed (currently estimated as spring 2023) and required for all DIB by 2026. CMMC is based on the existing NIST-800-171 standard, something that…
Lead Time for Software Delivery
Lead time is a crucial measure for many organizations. Keep reading to learn everything you need to know about delivery lead time and how you can adapt processes to decrease it. What Is Delivery Lead Time? In software development and deployment, lead time to delivery is how long it takes to implement and launch software…
Process Mining: What Is Process Mining and How Do You Select the Best Tool?
Data science contributes to a business’s success and helps businesses understand their processes so they can operate efficiently. With the enhancement of digital programs, many companies are leaving manual data processing behind and turning to digital systems to transform how data is collected, analyzed, and monitored. While making the switch can lead to advanced processes,…
What Are the Steps to Successfully Implement DevOps?
Business Transformation Institue offers DevOps consulting services to help you take advantage of all of the benefits of an integrated software development and operations approach. Read on to learn the 4 steps to successfully implementing DevOps! Four Steps to Implement DevOps Successfully 1. Development of a Code Repository Using a code repository like Git or…
What Is Data Security?
Data security involves protecting both digital and physical business information like employee records, transactions, customer information, and other sensitive data from unauthorized access, theft, corruption, fraud, and other scams. Data like names, contact information, bank and credit card information, and health information is sensitive to cyberattacks, so protecting your organization’s data is of utmost importance…
Leading From Within the Organization Through Effective Communication
By Dr. Bridget Gilmore, a senior process engineer at Business Transformation Institute One of the main reasons employees leave companies is the lack of effective communication between them, their leadership and within the organization. There are multiple ways ineffective communication is demonstrated. Employees say they do not feel seen or heard upon initial hiring; that…
Transitioning From DevOps to DevSecOps
With the increasing importance of cybersecurity, many businesses are shifting their DevOps team into DevSecOps. The change allows them to screen their software for security weak spots before they launch the application. Incorporating security into the development process helps ensure a better experience for users. If your company needs to expand its security measures on…
Improve Incident Response by Uniting Teams
Incident response is crucial to customer service. Addressing problems effectively can make a big difference in a user’s experience, but coordinating across departments can make it challenging to implement fixes, mainly when communication breakdowns occur or bottlenecks. If departments aren’t on the same page, then software problems become exacerbated. Even when communication is good, different…
Evaluating the Health and Status of Products and Threads – Part 3
1. BACKGROUND This paper is the third in a sequence defining Evaluated Product Maturity (EPM). EPM is designed to assist in assessing the risk of breaking or diminishing the functionality of a system-of-systems functional thread by modifying, changing, or replacing one or more systems that make up that thread. The sequence of paper provides the…
Evaluating the Health and Status of Products and Threads – Part 2
1. BACKGROUND This paper is the second in a sequence defining Evaluated Product Maturity (EPM). EPM is designed to assist in assessing the risk of breaking or diminishing the functionality of a system-of-systems functional thread by modifying, changing, or replacing one or more systems that make up that thread. The sequence of paper provides the…
