Posts tagged with the "Project Management" tag
CAST Highlight Gives Enterprises a Kick in the Apps
May 25, 2011 | Be the first to comment! System outages, software failures, security breaches and IT maintenance costs are all rapidly on the rise. It seems like not a day goes by that we don’t read about one company or another announcing that their system went down or revealed personal data to hackers. Couple that with published estimates …Read More
Agile Turns 10 – Time to Grow Up
May 24, 2011 | Be the first to comment! Happy Birthday to Agile Development! You’re 10 years old now; that’s an important age. A lot of things start happening at age 10. The pre-teen years start and things will seem to get awkward. Most important, a lot more will be expected of you. This is probably why Mike Beedle, the …Read More
Is Agile Enough to Ensure Quality?
May 3, 2011 | Be the first to comment! Whether it’s in sports, medicine, music or even a military operation, I’m a firm believer in the “best man for the job” concept. This is why Agile, or more specifically, Scrum development, sounds to me like a smart play for an organization. But even with the “best man” on the job, …Read More
Developer be Agile, Developer be Quick; Use Automated Analysis, it Does the Trick
March 23, 2011 | 1 Comment All business-critical applications consist of many intertwined components. In Agile Development, these components are built individually in “scrums,” but eventually have to coexist and work together, possibly across many layers (UI, data, business logic). This underscores a fundamental problem among applications created using Agile techniques: How do you ensure that …Read More
Gartner Tech Trends for 2011…Or Rather the One They Forgot
March 11, 2011 | Be the first to comment! Recently, Gartner Research VP and Fellow David Cearley hosted a webinar to discuss his group’s take on the top strategic technology trends for 2011. The webinar followed closely the trends Gartner had announced in conjunction with its Symposium/ITExpo last October in Orlando. Many of the initiatives on the list have become …Read More
Don’t Dawdle on Debt: Establishing a Technical Debt Action Plan
February 25, 2011 | Be the first to comment! Recently, Gartner Analyst Andy Kyte made quite a stir when he published a report that brought to the forefront just how expensive the cost of software maintenance is becoming for the IT industry. As reported by Patrick Thibodeau in Computerworld, Kyte cited what he called IT Debt as already standing …Read More
The Financial Implications of Technical Debt
February 22, 2011 | 2 Comments Discussions in the industry about technical debt have been focused on the IT costs involved in remediation and the potential risk to the company if applications deployed with poor structural integrity fail to perform optimally, or fail completely. But some impressive new ways of looking at the cost of technical debt …Read More