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Establishing a DevOps Centre of Excellence

2i can help organisations establish a DevOps Centre of Excellence, a central structure that can facilitate the adoption of industry best practices.

DevOps Test Methodologies Agile

Test twice, deploy once: Testing infrastructure code on AWS

Having infrastructure as code would allow the developers or team to test and validate the code before the actual deployment.

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Modernising Your Team and Workflow Patterns to Unleash High Performance DevOps

There are four Flow Metrics that measure how value flows through a product's value stream. They are calculated on four Flow Items - units of work that matter to a business: features, defects, debt, and risk.

DevOps Agile

Algorithms for High Performance DevOps

Successfully embracing a new DevOps paradigm will require a transformation of team and workflow patterns as well as technologies.

DevOps Agile

Software Testing and AWS Cloud Services

As organisations move to adopting the Cloud, software testing continues to be a component part essential to its success.

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Software Testing in the Era of Cloud Native Microservices

It’s not just scalability that makes microservices such a powerful approach for enterprise organizations, it also enables faster development of new software too.

Agile DevOps

The Role of Software Testing in 'Infrastructure as Code'

A core capability underpinning the shift to Cloud Native DevOps is treating 'Infrastructure as Code' (IaC).

Agile DevOps

Implementing SAFe with Tricentis - Transformation to a High-Performance Team

Following on from our introduction to the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), we can zoom in on a detailed review of the role of software testing within this framework.

DevOps Agile

Harnessing Scaled Agile (SAFe) for Large Enterprise DevOps

Implementing DevOps for one team is a relatively straight forward exercise, but for enterprise organisations, they face a much larger magnitude of complexity.

Test Automation

Automating software testing through design patterns

The primary reason why test automation frameworks fail is due to a poorly designed architecture, and design patterns can address this and common testing issues, such as those implementing the work lacking programming skills and familiarity with test automation.

DevOps Test Automation

DevOps Flow Automation - Encoding quality feedback into process and technology

2i offers an Automation Maturity Review, an assessment that follows DevOps Flow value stream mapping, so that we can identify the optimal target areas for automation.

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Serverless API Testing for Open Banking and Government as a Platform

Successfully building and deploying API-integrated apps comes with a number of challenges that 2i expertise and methodology can help address.

DevOps Test Automation

Integrating Low Code into the Devops SDLC

'Low Code' development is a new trend exploding into the IT market. Forecast to raise £500m of investment in 2020 alone it is a sector that will have a massive impact on how software is developed.

Risk Management

Pipeline to Increase Visibility and Reduce Risk

Testing is the key part of the equation when it comes to discovering and understanding risk within a project. An untested component is an unknown and therefore cannot be released with confidence.

DevOps Quality Assurance Test Methodologies

Going with the Flow – Embedding Testing in DevOps

Here are some of the key principles of ‘Flow’ and the role of testing and quality assurance practices required to enable ‘Flow’.

Agile DevOps

Eaten by Agile: Traditional Testing is a Thing of the Past

In this case study piece, Adam Pettman breaks down how testing as an integral and pivotal part of the DevOps process can sometimes be forgotten about and in some cases lead to major incidents and how they should be implemented with more care and diligence by organisations that wish to launch their products more smoothly.

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Shifting left and right - How embedding testing throughout DevOps is the key to agility

The new world of DevOps is transforming how software is developed, not just in terms of the technologies and tools used, but more importantly in terms of how teams are organised and managed.

Risk Management Test Methodologies

How to focus on what’s REALLY important when you test…

Business risk lies within the product that organisations deliver and, if not managed correctly, may lead to loss of revenue, impact brand value and reduce productivity to market.

Risk Management

How Hard Do You Want To Land The Plane?

Effective implementation of Risk Based Testing is only possible within Risk Based Delivery. The whole team must be aligned to the business outcomes being delivered.

Risk Management

Stop passing the baton of risk to your own customers

This blog post explains what Operational Risk is, the consequences this can have on your organisation if poorly managed and how we help our clients avoid negative consequences or outcomes through AssureRMF™.

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Technology Risk – Why your risk appetite can leave you biting off more than you can chew

As your organisation looks to increasingly leverage DevOps approaches and automation to enable Digital delivery at pace, your risk position needs to be front and centre of every stage of your delivery pipeline.

Agile

Safely traversing the scrum master tight rope

As Agile development and Scrum methodology become more commonplace across the industry, the role of Scrum Master is one that most of us will have come across in one way or another.

It's all Testing's fault

I’m sure we’ve all seen headlines, read articles or been in meetings where software issues are declared to be the fault of Testing.

I Know Kung Fu

Over the last 18 months I’ve been building an extension to my house. You might also wonder what this has got to do with IT projects? Well it turns out there are many parallels and life lessons to be learned.