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Standard cost reduction practices – outsourcing, broad staff cuts, and indiscriminately slashing projects - don’t work. There’s a better way! The answer is to adopt Lean thinking and Agile software development practices in order to run IT as an Agile portfolio. Download this white paper now.
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How can we balance agility and control? How can we update our release process to keep pace with Scrum? How are other organizations solving these same problems? There are many paths to improving your development automation efforts, but where to start? Our Enterprise CI Maturity Model can be your guide.
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For most electronics companies, the bill-of-materials (BOM) is the central hub of product definition activities. However, current BOM development processes are not well suited to today’s realities. With a Product Development System, companies can improve the quality of their bill-of-material (BOM) information, incorporate more sophisticated product options, and improve operational efficiency.
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Most software professionals believe that testing software is essential to quality. Where people inside the industry differ is how to accomplish that testing - strategies vary by level of the application tested, tools, methodology, amount of automation, and who completes the testing itself. The aspirational desire is to ship high-quality bug-free software no matter how one gets there. However, the devil is in the details. This White Paper focuses on the four essential questions that are central to creating a testing strategy that works.
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Gartner has released its 2009 “Magic Quadrant for Software Change and Configuration Management for Distributed Platforms.” The report evaluates SCCM vendors based on completeness of vision and ability to execute. According to Gartner, “SCCM tools are evolving on a path toward integrating tightly with or becoming generalized management platforms for requirements, test plans and other aspects of the application life cycle.” MKS is positioned in the SCCM Leaders Quadrant.
Get your copy of the Magic Quadrant, courtesy of MKS.
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Agile development doesn’t have to mean fragile enterprise process. Scalability, transparency and compliance remain important to satisfy the needs and obligations of the business.This paper explains that Agile practices and approaches must be blended with proven enterprise practices to achieve the right mix of agility and discipline.
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Best practices for effective, efficient, lightweight reviews using lessons learned from field work and experiments from the past 10 years.
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While the practice of outsourcing IT development and testing activities to third party firms continues, there are many hidden costs and delivery risks in today’s distributed software environments that aren’t addressed by conventional management processes and tools. Collaborative quality can help all parties regain accountability and reduce project risk.
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Serena Software’s Development Process Management solution gives application development teams a better way to work. The management dashboard portal rolls up key information so the boss can see the big picture. It also provides even globally dispersed organizations with increased visibility, control and effectiveness, that integrates with your existing tools.
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Properly designing and implementing a parallel software development strategy can result in lower development costs, higher software quality, and a better ability to meet deadlines. However, many distributed projects that could benefit from a parallel development approach do not use one. What do managers need to know about parallel development?
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Uttam Narsu is an industry expert on software configuration management best
practices. While an analyst at Giga and Forrester Research, Mr. Narsu
worked with hundreds of differing software development environments
and has put together these SCM best practices in this compelling white paper.
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