Mattermost 5.4 includes new features designed to increase team productivity.

The transition to Agile development and continuous deployment has resulted in the DevOps movement to break down organizational walls. While there are many benefits to this approach, some best practices of traditional IT Service Management (ITSM) have been lost in the transition. Which ITSM processes and controls are still relevant and how can you adapt them to the new agile world?

Shipping clean, safe, and correct code is a high priority for engineering at Sentry. Bugs are best discovered before they hit production because afterward they have real user impact and can drain even a high-performing team’s resources quickly. The later in the development cycle a bug is found, the longer it will take to fix.

At Atlassian, we’re big believers in open work. We’ve seen how our teams and our customers’ teams achieve more when collaboration and communication are at the foundation of everything they do. We know that having the right set of integrated tools is critical to moving work forward.

Every software organization faces challenges in keeping applications available and running reliably. At Google, we’ve developed and practiced a discipline known as Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). Following SRE practices lets us build and operate services reliably for our billions of users. Google has about 2,500 Site Reliability Engineers who support both internal and external services.