Cloud Gives Clear Vision to IT Portfolio
May 9, 2012 | Be the first to comment! This blog has long professed the need for businesses to analyze, measure and assess their IT application portfolios to identify those issues with application software that cause a whole spate of headaches, from application failure, to business risk to increased technical debt. To this end, Large enterprises have been able to …Read More
Structural Quality Metrics in Outsourcing SLAs
May 8, 2012 | 1 Comment When I speak to customers and prospects trying to incorporate static code analysis into their software development processes, one of the most common questions that I get is “How do we incorporate the outputs of static analysis into SLAS?” Given the prevalence of outsourcing in Fortune 500 and Global 1000 …Read More
Shortcuts Today Lead to Shortcomings Tomorrow
May 2, 2012 | Be the first to comment! Catchy slogans are catchy for two good reasons – the put an extremely true point into very simple, succinct language. This is probably why they call these true, simple statements, “catch phrases.” One of the most effective catch phrases of my youth was for a product called Fram Oil Filters. Sometime …Read More
Living Up to Standards
April 27, 2012 | Be the first to comment! By definition, standards are supposed to be a set of bare minimum requirements for meeting levels of acceptability. In school, the students who took the “standard” level courses were those who were performing “at grade level” and just focused on graduating. Every April in the United States we need to …Read More
Gartner Webinar: Get Smart about Technical Debt
April 25, 2012 | Be the first to comment! Over the past 10 years or so, it has been interesting to watch the metaphor of Technical Debt grow and evolve. Like most topics or issues in software development, there aren’t many concepts or practices that are fully embraced by the industry without some debate or controversy. Regardless of your …Read More
Priorities: Fix it First!
April 24, 2012 | Be the first to comment! Since the time of my first household chores, I cannot recall an age when I did not look at a “to do” list of mine and see the need to prioritize things. Whether it was taking out the trash first because trash collection was the next day or recognizing the …Read More
Quality is a Happy Place
April 18, 2012 | Be the first to comment! I love my job! I’ve always been an avid writer, even as a kid. So when it came to career choices my decision to enter a profession that demanded writing skills seemed like a natural fit. I started out as a newspaper reporter, following in my father’s footsteps, but as the jobs …Read More