Posts tagged with the "Software Development" tag
CAST Defends the Defenders
December 20, 2011 | 2 Comments From the Pentagon to the Department of Energy, government organizations have been hard hit this year by IT systems outages, performance issues and security failures, most of which have stemmed from structural quality issues. But as bleak as this may sound, the good news is that these problems seem to …Read More
A Crash Course on CAST’s New CRASH Report
December 14, 2011 | 1 Comment Last week, CAST issued a report on the summary findings of its second annual CAST Report on Application Software Health (aka CRASH), which delves into the structural quality of business application software. The report has earned significant coverage throughout the technology media, including InformationWeek, InfoWorld and Computerworld, as well as …Read More
What the New York Giants Can Teach Us about Software Quality
December 7, 2011 | Be the first to comment! As we all know, Sundays are for football, and this past Sunday brought some choice matchups. Although I am a devout fan of the New England Patriots, one of my favorite games paired the undefeated Green Bay Packers, led by quarterback Aaron Rodgers, and Eli Manning's New York Giants. Tied …Read More
Sealed with a K.I.S.S.: Keeping IT Software Simple
November 21, 2011 | Be the first to comment! Kudos to Roger Sessions, the CTO of ObjectWatch. Recently, Sessions took a stand supporting “the intentional architectural design of simplicity into a software application,” which he dubbed “simplility.” But while I applaud Sessions for championing the case for simplicity in software architectural design, I’m not sure we need a new word …Read More
Microsoft Ducks Duqu
November 9, 2011 | 1 Comment November’s most popular day in the United States is arguably the fourth Thursday of the month – Thanksgiving Day. In the Tech industry, however, it is the second Tuesday of the month – yesterday to be exact – that garners heightened interest. The reason for the additional interest is that …Read More
Toast, Coffee & Software Quality
November 7, 2011 | Be the first to comment! Last week’s admissions of bugs in newly released software by Apple and Google were just the latest reminders that the battle between bringing software products to market quickly and optimizing software quality is coming to a head in a year that has seen far more than its share of software …Read More
Is There a Technical Debt Tipping Point?
November 3, 2011 | Be the first to comment! This year, 2011, seems to have been the year of discussing, debating and, hopefully, dealing with debt crises. The U.S. Congress’ Super Committee has its deficit reduction recommendations due in three weeks. Meanwhile the Greek government is reconsidering the debt restructuring deal it signed just just last week. It’s pretty …Read More