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While there are good reasons to use teams for software projects, there are also many well-documented challenges and pitfalls. One of the most important decisions for any team is the governance model they choose to abide by.

Capacity assessment has become a necessity in today's complex network environments. Indeed, conducting rigorous assessments can not only bring peace of mind and improved performance and stability to the final system, but also saves time and money. Conducting these assessments requires tools that properly address the realities found in environments such as the Internet or enterprise network infrastructures. In fact, conducting assessments without these realistic factors can be risky, often not resulting in a real world picture of the performance or capacity of the system. We introduce CawUsers as the definition of a real world user-assessments using CawUsers will vastly improve the understanding and confidence in a system to meet the demands and rigors found in the real world.

What is the real value of computing performance improvement? What is the real cost of computing performance degradation? This paper describes an approach used at The Boeing Company to answer these questions.

Each generation of technology-from mainframe to the Internet-creates many opportunities for businesses to try new things. But with uncharted territory comes exponentially increased risks.

These days, it seems everyone who wants to make a mark in the software world feels the need to invent a new model or methodology. While such models provide useful frameworks for structuring our thinking and practices, enough already!

Over the past twenty-five years, the Software Engineering Laboratory (SEL) at NASA/GSFC has studied mechanisms for improving the software process and product.