JFrog announced a new machine learning (ML) lifecycle integration between JFrog Artifactory and MLflow, an open source software platform originally developed by Databricks.
A 71 percent increase in project cost reduction is a primary reason to adopt agile, according to 2019 State of Agile report from CollabNet VersionOne.
Notable findings reported this year include:
Agile is being adopted more frequently to reduce costs
The new report shows a 71 percent increase in project cost reduction as a primary reason to adopt agile.
It also cited a 27 percent increase in the reduction in project costs as a key benefit of agile.
According to the report, the adoption of agile has a bigger focus on reducing project costs and improving team morale — and is less about increasing productivity and reducing risk in comparison to the year before.
DevOps is a higher organizational priority
The need to understand and improve DevOps continues to rise as a priority for organizations — with 90 percent of respondents citing it as important. The report also showed a 27 percent increase from last year in respondents who think DevOps transformation is very important.
End-to-end traceability is key to improving DevOps practices
A total of 38 percent of respondents identified end-to-end traceability from business, through development, test and deployment as the most valuable capability for DevOps improvement.
Value Stream Management is new, but important
Although value stream management made its debut this year, 67 percent of respondents reported that it was important for connecting the business to its software delivery capability.
SAFe dominates scaling methods
The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) continues to grow in adoption and was identified as the scaling method of choice by 30 percent of respondents.
Industry News
Copado announced the general availability of Test Copilot, the AI-powered test creation assistant.
SmartBear has added no-code test automation powered by GenAI to its Zephyr Scale, the solution that delivers scalable, performant test management inside Jira.
Opsera announced that two new patents have been issued for its Unified DevOps Platform, now totaling nine patents issued for the cloud-native DevOps Platform.
mabl announced the addition of mobile application testing to its platform.
Spectro Cloud announced the achievement of a new Amazon Web Services (AWS) Competency designation.
GitLab announced the general availability of GitLab Duo Chat.
SmartBear announced a new version of its API design and documentation tool, SwaggerHub, integrating Stoplight’s API open source tools.
Red Hat announced updates to Red Hat Trusted Software Supply Chain.
Tricentis announced the latest update to the company’s AI offerings with the launch of Tricentis Copilot, a suite of solutions leveraging generative AI to enhance productivity throughout the entire testing lifecycle.
CIQ launched fully supported, upstream stable kernels for Rocky Linux via the CIQ Enterprise Linux Platform, providing enhanced performance, hardware compatibility and security.
Redgate launched an enterprise version of its database monitoring tool, providing a range of new features to address the challenges of scale and complexity faced by larger organizations.
Snyk announced the expansion of its current partnership with Google Cloud to advance secure code generated by Google Cloud’s generative-AI-powered collaborator service, Gemini Code Assist.
Kong announced the commercial availability of Kong Konnect Dedicated Cloud Gateways on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Pegasystems announced the general availability of Pega Infinity ’24.1™.