DevOps Hackathon – New solutions to old problems

 

One of our most experienced employees, Suresh Kotha, was part of the winning team in a recent Hackathon held at one of our clients, NatWest Group.

 

The team of 6, the “Infra Hackers”, competed against more than 20 other teams to build a working prototype using DevOps principles tasked with addressing a business challenge or introducing a new innovative way of working.

 

Their solution, an end to end release automation tool, integrated with the key tools used across the NatWest Group to deliver an end-to-end change governance solution. It was built in 2 weeks and there were multiple rounds of judging from senior roles in the organisation including Head of IT.

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Winners – DevOps Industry Awards 2020

 

We are very proud that, in partnership with Vodafone UK, our DevOps project has won the “Best Overall DevOps Project – Communication Sector” category at the DevOps Industry Awards 2020.

 

The DevOps Industry Awards celebrate the companies and individuals who have accomplished significant achievements when incorporating and adopting DevOps practices. The awards are judged by an independent panel of judges from some of the world’s biggest organisations.

 

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Finalists – DevOps Industry Awards 2020

 
The finalist nominations for the DevOps Industry Awards 2020 are out, and we are thrilled to be included.

 

Sandhata Technologies, in partnership with Vodafone UK, are very proud to have been announced as finalists in 2 categories at the DevOps Industry Awards 2020.

The DevOps Industry Awards celebrate the companies and individuals who have accomplished significant achievements when incorporating and adopting DevOps practices. The awards are judged by an independent panel of judges from some of the world’s biggest organisations.

Sandhata, in partnership with Vodafone UK, has been nominated as finalists at the DevOps Industry Awards 2020 in 2 categories:

  • Best Overall DevOps Project – Communication Sector
  • DevOps Team of the Year
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Sandhata selected as finalists in two categories at the European Software Testing Awards 2020!

Sandhata Technologies, in partnership with Vodafone UK, are very proud to have been announced as finalists in 2 categories at the European Software Testing Awards 2020.

Now in its seventh year the Deloitte European Software Testing Awards celebrate companies and individuals who have accomplished significant achievements in the software testing and quality assurance market.

 

Sandhata, in partnership with Vodafone UK, has been nominated as finalists at the European Software Testing Awards 2020 in 2 categories:

  • Best Overall Testing Project – Communication
  • Testing Team of the Year

 

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Winners – Digital Technology Leaders Awards 2020

It gives us great pleasure to announce that we have won the “Project Team of the Year” category at the Digital Technology Leaders Awards 2020!

The Computing Digital Technology Leaders Awards exist to recognise the achievements of the individuals and companies who are really making it happen at the coal face of the digital technology stack: from website design and coding to UX and project management, from scrum masters and product managers, all the way up to the CDO.

The Vodafone Integration team, including team members from Vodafone UK and Sandhata, have been recognised for the innovative and far-reaching changes delivered as part of the TIL Transformation Project.

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Winners – DevOps Excellence Awards 2020

All of us here at Sandhata are so proud to announce that we have won the “DevOps Project of the Year” category at the DevOps Excellence Awards 2020!

Now in its 4th year, the DevOps Excellence Awards celebrate and recognise outstanding achievement from organisations and solutions operating within the DevOps space.

Sandhata, in partnership with Vodafone UK, has been recognised for the innovative TIL Transformation Project, delivered by the Vodafone UK Integration Domain and Sandhata.

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Tame your mainframe testing with Robotic Process Automation

Are your mainframe systems holding you back from delivering change?

Does your mainframe testing snowball – taking more time and more resources each project?

 

Our experience with a wide variety of mainframe clients has shown us that the traditional slow, cumbersome, manual mainframe testing has knock on effects throughout the whole organisation, preventing change from being delivered in a timely manner. Many organisations are hamstrung by the need to test the mainframe systems (the back end) when changing only the front end which means their Agile and DevOps teams are unable to release fast and frequently.

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Level-up your DevOps team!

You have already got a “DevOps team” and you are able to deliver projects much more quickly than before. Work is more streamlined and your small teams are empowered to work efficiently and make changes to provide value fast.

But how can you take your team to the next level? How can you deliver even more, better and quicker without pushing your teams too hard?

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Sandhata selected as finalists in three categories at the Digital Tech Leaders Awards 2020!

We are thrilled to be able to share the news that Sandhata Technologies, jointly with Vodafone UK, have been selected as finalists in this year’s Digital Technology Leaders Awards 2020!

The Computing Digital Technology Leaders Awards exist to recognise the achievements of the individuals and companies who are really making it happen at the coal face of the digital technology stack: from website design and coding to UX and project management, from scrum masters and product managers, all the way up to the CDO.

Sandhata, in partnership with Vodafone UK, has been nominated as finalists in 3 categories:

  • Digital Transformation of the Year – Large Organisations
  • Best Automation Project
  • Project Team of the Year
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Do you want to achieve quick wins? (Hint: Focus on Minimum Viable Product)

DevOps is all about fast and frequent deployments, measuring value and continual improvement. I’m sure you have heard about reducing batch sizes in order to decrease lead time, increase deployment frequency and improve stability and quality. Well, focusing on the minimum viable product is one way to reduce batch sizes and enable more frequent deployments.

 

What is meant by Minimum Viable Product (MVP)?

A product which is delivered with just enough features/capabilities to satisfy a subset of users and validate a business use case. Once the product is released, the subset of users will provide feedback which will drive the direction and delivery of subsequent features (or halt development if the product does not appear to have viable business value). Products generally follow an iterative deployment model, and the product evolves through multiple deployments before the product is seen as ‘complete’.

 

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