Matching Agile Development with Agile Operations

Change happens fast! Companies with the ability to keep up will find themselves leading the way

As the world becomes more instrumented, interconnected and intelligent, organizations are able to build a new class of complex, pervasive, real-time, and data-rich applications. With these applications come new challenges. Businesses need to deliver uninterrupted 24x7 operations while continually responding to rapidly changing business needs. This requires seamless processes across the design and delivery lifecycle that enable end-to-end agility in the building, deploying, maintaining, and upgrading of applications.

Hear from Glenn O’Donnell, Forrester© Senior Analyst and Bala Rajaraman, IBM® Tivoli Distinguished Engineer on why bridging the gap between development and operations is critical to succeed on a Smarter Planet.

Interview with Glenn O'Donnell
Don O'Toole, Director of Strategy, Tivoli Software, explores with Glenn: importance of unifying development and operations; common problems that result from the gap between design and delivery; how CIOs are addressing this today and planning for tomorrow.

Interview with Bala Rajaraman
Don O'Toole discusses with Bala: what has changed that makes the idea of Integrated Service Management for Design and Delivery particularly important now; the gap between how things are developed and how they are deployed; how companies can begin to address this gap today.

Removing Friction From The Business Service Lifecycle
The traditional division of labor between development and operations today represents a barrier to innovation and service delivery. This often confrontational relationship is increasingly disruptive as complexity and business demands grow. A movement is finally afoot to improve the Development-Operations link. Focused on collaboration rather than combat. Learn how you can leverage technology, process refinement, and personal incentives to transform this relationship to deliver streamlined business value.

Unifying Development & Operations through Service Lifecycle Innovation
Today, service design and delivery suffer tremendous inefficiencies as a result of the significant "gap" between application development activities and the IT operations that support those applications once in production. This webcast will discuss the key business motivation, real world client challenges and solution use cases around Design and Delivery innovation.  Learn how to overcome the challenges that many organizations are facing today—trying to bridge the gap between service development and deployment.

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