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	<title>CAST Software: On Quality Blog &#187; Technical Debt</title>
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		<title>Technical Debt: Principal but no interest?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 22:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philippe Emmanuel Douziech</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Making technical debt visible … Making technical debt visible already proves to be quite a challenge, as it’s all about exposing the underwater part of the iceberg. But how deep underwater does it go? To know for sure, you would need the right diving equipment. To go just below the surface, you would start with a snorkel. But to go far down, you need a deep-sea exploration submersible. This is comparable to software. To know for sure how many issues you have under the hood, you need the right analysis equipment. Simple source code parsers help (like a snorkel). Finding cross-technology, cross-layer, system-level faulty patterns is another matter. … to &#8230; <a href="http://blog.castsoftware.com/technical-debt-principal-but-no-interest/">Read More <i class="icon-chevron-right"></i></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Reduce Software Risk through Improved Quality Measures with CAST, TCS and OMG</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 13:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete Pizzutillo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Outsourced Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Software Demystified]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Software Measurement]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Risk Management in software industry]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.castsoftware.com/?p=4580</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Webinar Summary I had the pleasure of moderating a panel discussion with Bill Martorelli, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research Inc; Dr. Richard Mark Soley, Chairman and CEO of Object Management Group (OMG); Siva Ganesan, VP &#38; Global Head of Assurance Services at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS); and Lev Lesokhin, EVP, Strategy &#38; Market Development at CAST. We focused on industry trends, and specifically discussed how standardizing quality measures can have a big impact on reducing software risk.  This interactive format allowed attendees to hear four distinct perspectives on the challenges and progress that is being made within organizations directly, and also at systems integrators. Mr. Martorelli started the discussion by &#8230; <a href="http://blog.castsoftware.com/reduce-software-risk-through-improved-quality-measures-with-cast-tcs-and-omg/">Read More <i class="icon-chevron-right"></i></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Is Every Part of the Application equal when Assessing the Risk Level?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2012 18:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philippe Emmanuel Douziech</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Software Quality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Software Risk Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technical Debt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Risk assessment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Risk detection]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Risk detection is about identifying any threat that can negatively and severely impact the behavior of applications in operations, as well as the application maintenance and development activity. Then, risk assessment is about conveying the result of the detection through easy-to-grasp pieces of information. Part of this activity is about highlighting what it is you’re seeing while summarizing a plethora of information. But as soon as we utter the word &#8220;summarizing,&#8221; we risk losing some important context. Application split impact as a strength in risk assessment An application can be considered as a whole in its purpose of servicing one area of the business, yet it is composed of multiple &#8230; <a href="http://blog.castsoftware.com/is-every-part-of-the-application-equal-when-assessing-the-risk-level/">Read More <i class="icon-chevron-right"></i></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Surviving the IT Perfect Storm</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2012 19:09:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete Pizzutillo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Portfolio Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Software Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Software Risk Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technical Debt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Application Development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The economy, the complexity and pace of business, and an ongoing lack of resources have created a perfect storm for IT departments worldwide. As wave after wave of IT failures litter the press, there’s no question that the storm is here. In its wake, businesses are faltering, careers are shattering, and stockholders are left wondering “How could this happen … again?” The key to preventing your business and career from landing on the rocks is the aggressive identification and elimination of risk. This document provides some tactics designed to identify risks across vast application portfolios and eliminate risk within critical business systems. Red sky at morning, sailor take warning With &#8230; <a href="http://blog.castsoftware.com/surviving-the-it-perfect-storm/">Read More <i class="icon-chevron-right"></i></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Empowering Developers with System-Level SAM Tools</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 14:16:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivier Bonsignour</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Application Quality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Software Quality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technical Debt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lean Software Development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The analogy between brick-and-mortar building architecture and software architecture is used quite often. Although they are quite different, this still helps to remind us that in software engineering everything is interdependent with a crucial cause-effect factor, which is actually thousands of times more sensitive than in hardware construction. It is fairly obvious that the quality of a building is a combination of the quality of the bricks, the quality of the assembly of the bricks in the wall, and the quality of the assembly of the walls (along with the electricity, plumbing, etc.). So it follows that assessing the quality of an application does require more than assessing the quality &#8230; <a href="http://blog.castsoftware.com/empowering-developers-with-system-level-sam-tools/">Read More <i class="icon-chevron-right"></i></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Don’t Blame the Outsourcer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2012 18:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard Karsenti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Outsourced Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Software Risk Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technical Debt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Legacy applications]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my travels, I run into a lot of organizations that are not happy with the performance of their outsourcer. In many cases, the core relationship is the result of a cascade effect. The organization delivered an application that had poor structural quality to begin with, and left the outsourcer with the difficult task of meeting their SLA requirements with a faulty application. If you want great results from an outsourcer, here’s job one: make sure the application you’re delivering is structurally sound to begin with. Step two: make sure the tools and technologies you use to ensure structural integrity are also part of the outsourcing agreement and, in the &#8230; <a href="http://blog.castsoftware.com/dont-blame-the-outsourcer/">Read More <i class="icon-chevron-right"></i></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Moving your application to the cloud: Getting ready!</title>
		<link>http://blog.castsoftware.com/moving-your-application-to-the-cloud-getting-ready/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=moving-your-application-to-the-cloud-getting-ready</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2012 16:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jayesh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Application Quality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technical Debt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cloud adoption]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we start talking about cloud, several common questions come to mind: What do you mean by “cloud”? What standard requirements need to be fulfilled before moving to the cloud? Is my data secure on the cloud? What about application quality? Is it easy to push my application on the cloud? I will be examining these questions and their answers in a series of posts around cloud. The original goal for the cloud was to reduce the cost of IT infrastructure by allowing customers to utilize an infrastructure managed by a third party that contains physical and virtual machines, disk space for storage, and other resources remotely. This type of &#8230; <a href="http://blog.castsoftware.com/moving-your-application-to-the-cloud-getting-ready/">Read More <i class="icon-chevron-right"></i></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Fast or Nimble? Agile Should be Both</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2012 09:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Bloom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Software Demystified]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technical Debt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Agile]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[automated analysis and measurement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Project Management]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[SCRUM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Software Development]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[structural quality]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.castsoftware.com/?p=4218</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was watching the gymnastics competition at the Olympics on Sunday night and on more than one occasion heard commentators applaud competitors for their agility. As I watched these gymnasts move swiftly and with exacting precision across the beam, floor, vault and bars, I could not help but marvel at their abilities and at how appropriate a descriptor “agile” was for them. Long before businesses tossed around the term “Agile” as a method of technology project management, it stood as a word that often affixed to people and objects that displayed a certain set of characteristics. People earning the moniker “agile” almost invariably were both fast and nimble – not &#8230; <a href="http://blog.castsoftware.com/fast-or-nimble-agile-should-be-both/">Read More <i class="icon-chevron-right"></i></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Tech Babel Fish for CFOs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2012 20:46:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete Pizzutillo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Software Analysis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Any advocate for better software quality knows that one of the biggest challenges is helping the CIO reach the CFO. When your team needs a budget for an important project, those conversations often break down. Thanks to the unavoidable technical complexity of IT, oftentimes the CIO might as well be speaking Esperanto to the CFO. When it comes to budgeting, IT might be the least-understood department in your organization. And what the CFO doesn’t understand, he doesn’t budget for. Instead, capital that should rightfully go towards IT growth and innovation is allocated to other groups and initiatives. That dulls the organization’s competitive edge, and can have a toxic effect on &#8230; <a href="http://blog.castsoftware.com/the-tech-babel-fish-for-cfos/">Read More <i class="icon-chevron-right"></i></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Some advice for the Fourth of July</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 19:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lev</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CAST News]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fireworks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here’s a poster for you to celebrate the Fourth of July in the way only a mature development team can appreciate. Feel free to download it, share it, or print it out and hang it around your office. Also feel free to annoy anyone who doesn’t understand the importance of insight and transparency in application development. &#160;]]></description>
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