Agile Archives - Sandhata

21Jun2022

We Are Sandhata – Meet Maitreya

Maitreya Gavkare, Agile consultant, shares a bit about his background, why he decided to move into the IT sector, and how it’s going so far!

Tell us about your role at Sandhata

I am working as an Agile consultant, primarily facilitating practical improvement initiatives and strategies for clients. To do this, I analyse and evaluate the organisation’s workflow and overall environment, discussing organisational shortcomings with clients, with the end goal of improving how they deliver customer value.

21Mar2022

Sandhata Technologies Launches PopUp Mainframe

21st March 2022

The DevOps, Integration and digital transformation specialist, Sandhata Technologies, has launched its new product company, PopUp Mainframe.

PopUp Mainframe is a cutting-edge solution which finally removes the bottleneck of mainframe test environments by enabling clients to create mainframe environments on-demand, either on-prem or in the cloud.

Sandhata Technologies has taken the decision to separate its new product offering, PopUp Mainframe, from Sandhata’s services offering to ensure that PopUp’s software engineering team can focus fully on responding to client needs with the PopUp product roadmap. Sandhata Technologies will continue to offer its award winning consultancy services, specialising in innovative and enterprise-wide DevOps-centric service propositions.

3Nov2021

Why is feedback fantastic?

So, you have a crack team delivering sterling work, who are highly skilled and hard working. But this team are not as productive as is hoped, and they frequently face production/service issues which take a lot of time to resolve. What gives?

Quite possibly, the team is delivering the wrong stuff (which does not improve the customer experience), or fire fighting issues blind because they don’t have the right information at the right time. Without regular feedback, projects can go off course, the wrong features can be built, and sometimes the wrong issue can be “fixed”!

12Aug2021

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Digital Disruption

12th August 2021

Roohi Razi

Agile, Change, Transformation Blog

Digital Transformation is a revolutionary change in any industry or business which transforms it or creates a new type of industry completely. Digital disruption refers to the impact of new digital technologies and business models on existing goods, services, systems, and structures.

11Jun2020

Is your Change Management Process holding you back? We can help

Are your projects failing to deliver the value you expected?

Are you unable to release changes as fast as you would like?

Are your teams stuck behind heavyweight processes slowing them down?

Is change expensive due to clunky, inefficient change management?

Our experience with a wide variety of clients has shown us that a heavyweight, cumbersome change management is one of the biggest blockers to achieving your DevOps goals and delivering change at the speed you need.

7Dec2018

Sandhata wins Best Overall Testing Project at TESTA 2018

7th December 2018

Sandhata Master

Agile, Awards, DevOps, Mainframe Blog, News room

The DevOps, Integration and IT transformation specialist, Sandhata is delighted to announce its joint entry with RBS won ‘Best Overall Testing Project – Finance’ at The European Software Testing Awards 2018.

Now in its sixth year, The European Software Testing Awards (TESTA) celebrates companies and individuals who have accomplished significant achievements in the software testing and quality assurance market.

Sandhata, in partnership with Royal Bank of Scotland, has been recognised by TESTA for its innovative testing project ‘Accelerating Mainframe Change’ delivered by the RBS engineering team and Sandhata.

8Feb2018

Does DevOps Work in Highly Regulated Industries?

8th February 2018

Bronwyn Davies

Agile, Collaboration, Compliance, DevOps, financial services, Governance, Regulated Industries Blog

DevOps is best suited to digital start-ups with minimal regulation and few restrictions, right?

Initially the DevOps movement stemmed from the agile, innovative, born-on-the-web companies who were able to change their way of working quickly. However, the principles and practices are completely transferrable to all organisation types. This includes those at the other end of the spectrum – where processes are very tightly controlled and regulation dictates a significant part of the business investment.

10Jan2018

Are you drowning in technical debt?

10th January 2018

Bronwyn Davies

Agile, DevOps Blog

Technical debt is the enemy of fast change – and of DevOps. It sometimes hides under the covers while new features are being delivered but, much like financial debt, it will never go away unless it is addressed directly.

At some point your technical debt will reach critical mass. This is when it starts to hinder every attempt to change, while forcing you to spend more time fire-fighting and managing the debt rather than delivering new features for the customer. This growing technical debt mountain will seriously affect your business ability.

12Dec2017

What makes the agile team tick

12th December 2017

Saravanan Panchatcharam

Agile, Collaboration, Culture Blog

We’ve all heard the cliché: Agile teams are self-organised and self-managed.

However, if it’s that simple, why are organisations not consistently churning out self-managed teams delivering solutions in a smooth manner? In reality, there are plenty of dynamics involved in enabling agile teams, and there are multiple factors that play a big part in nurturing self-managed teams.

10May2017

How we built a Live DevOps Innovation Platform

10th May 2017

Bronwyn Davies

Agile, CICD, Development, DevOps, DevOps Innovation Platform, KPIs, Service Virtualization, Test Automation Blog

We recently announced the arrival of our Live DevOps Innovation Platform built in-house here at Sandhata. I wanted to share some of the tools we have used for it so far, as well as my personal experiences on this platform, as it has been very interesting and a big learning experience for me.