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Agile Metrics

Know your business "Done" only tells half the story. It's about building the right product, at the right time, for the right market. Staying on track throughout the program means collecting and analysing some data along the way. In any agile program, it's important to track both business metrics and agile metrics. Business metrics focus on whether the solution is meeting the market need, and agile metrics measure aspects of the development process. A program's business metrics should be rooted in its roadmap. For each initiative on the roadmap, include several key performance indicators (KPIs) that map to the program's goals. In addition, include success criteria for each product  requirement  such as adoption rate by end-users or percentage of code covered by automated tests. These success criteria feed into the program's agile metrics. And the more teams learn, the better they can adapt and evolve.  How to use agile metrics to optimi...

IoT PRACTICAL USE CASES -CONNECTED CAR

IoT connectivity is transforming the automobile. Let us see some practical use cases In-Car Content and Services Connected Cars take the infotainment to the next level by delivering popular content to consumers. Car entertainment today is mostly confined to Bluetooth connectivity and FM radio. With the increasing availability of high-speed networks, popular streaming services like Hulu, Pandora, and Spotify are becoming a part of the infotainment landscape in automobiles. Consumers will soon have plenty of options in digital content. Apple with Apple’s CarPlay and Google with Android Auto are competing to becoming the brain behind in-car infotainment. Consumers can use familiar voice-activated technologies such as Siri and Google Now to interact with the infotainment system, while Amazon is partnering with Ford to bring its popular Alexa engine to the car. Most infotainment systems are presently in a strange period where consumers can choose between manufacturer-made infotainment...

Top LIferay usecases

As businesses continue to grapple with communication and collaboration issues, enterprise portals have emerged as the modern day solution to these challenges, with these characteristics: 1. Support any device, anywhere access to extranet, intranet with speed, relevance, and ease of deployment 2. Provide interactive powerful search and collaboration channels such as forums, chats and gamification with help of secure role based access 3. Overall deployment and maintenance should eliminate costly licensing overheads and provide attractive RoI The different forms of enterprise portals include intranet, extranet, WCM/WEM, knowledge management, collaboration channels, and highly customized portals. They offer value to both internal users (oAuth, SSO and LDAP) and external stakeholders (device agnostic, cloud support and social signals). Among the various options available today, Liferay is unarguably the most preferred choice of enterprise portal development platform for these reas...