James Sullivan

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James Sullivan is the principal partner and technical lead of Arcisphere Technologies. Arcisphere Technologies is an application life cycle management (ALM) and agile methodology firm. James has more than a decade and one half of software engineering experience and has developed key ALM for several large organizations. James’s industry experience includes financial services, telecom, and pharmaceuticals.

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Architecture - Design

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United States

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	Using SAFe to Improve Quality and Add Business Value The Scaled Agile Framework, or SAFe, is a popular brand of agile in use by many firms, and it has a significant trajectory. SAFe is a strategy for not only making the team agile, but also making the enterprise agile. With a foundation in lean development and support for DevOps, SAFe's principles make it more effective in helping you deliver quality software.
	Consider Deployment Automation to Add Business Value Faster “Business value sooner” is a simple phrase, but it has been pondered by the best IT project managers. Deployment automation provides business value sooner, which makes for a better return on investment. It not only gets features to market sooner but also gets defects resolved faster.
	Ways to Implement Agile without Breaking the Bank James Sullivan explains popular agile frameworks and outlines their costs and benefits. If you're worried that you are at a place where you cannot make the sort of investments that these agile frameworks require, James is here to discuss foundational agile practices that can provide you key benefits without the costs associated with these kinds of agile brands.
	Information Technology Predictions for 2013 While 2013 may appear calmer compared to 2012 due in part to fewer “big” events scheduled this year, the information technology (IT) industry and profession advances forward. The IT industry, interestingly enough, shapes events in addition to being shaped by events around the world.
	The Center of Excellence A great way to establish your software engineering processes, training, best practices, reports, and metrics is to build a center-of-excellence (CoE). When complete, a CoE is a team, or entity, that provides the leadership and governance in a focus area. Often the leadership is in the form of items such as, training, documentation, metrics, reporting.