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Seven Steps to Software Project Failure

Seven Steps to Software Project Failure

By Donald Beckett | May 02 2013

In spite of 30 years of structured programming, CASE tools, OO development, 4th GL languages, CMMI, and PMI, the failure rate for larger projects has failed to respond to all of this love and attention. ... Read More

Should You Develop Apps or Syndicate Apps For Better ROI?

Should You Develop Apps or Syndicate Apps For Better ROI?

By Manash Chaudhuri | Mar 05 2013

Buy vs. build, every growing company eventually faces it, and many are still driven to keep software matters as in-house as possible. Manash Chaudhuri, CEO of Corelynx Inc., outlines some of the advantages and disadvantages ... Read More

Lean Canvas: As if You Were Home 24×7 – The iDoor

Lean Canvas: As if You Were Home 24×7 – The iDoor

By Maarten Ectors | Jan 31 2013

The idea of Lean Canvas is to put what would go into the executive summary of a business case on one page and to forget about writing the rest of the business case. The justification ... Read More

Methodology For Project Delivery Success

Methodology For Project Delivery Success

By Alex Antonatos | Jan 29 2013

In my career, a methodology is a structured approach for project delivery; in the 1990s we were talking about XP (Extreme Programming) it faded a bit, but has made resurgence lately with agile gaining momentum, ... Read More

5 DIY Mobile App Development Tools: No Coding Required

5 DIY Mobile App Development Tools: No Coding Required

By Ashley Dotterweich | Nov 20 2012

In an increasingly mobile tech climate, even businesses who aren't centered on tech can benefit from creating a mobile app. Luckily for small businesses, there are many affordable mobile app development platforms for creating apps ... Read More

SCM and Enterprise: Andreessen Horowitz's $100 Million Investment in GitHub

SCM and Enterprise: Andreessen Horowitz's $100 Million Investment in GitHub

By Mark Aspillera | Aug 21 2012

When Andreessen Horowitz announced earlier in June that his venture capital firm would invest $100 million in the online program management application GitHub, people paid attention. GitHub is application development software that performs the task ... Read More

Github Makes Source Code Management Easier

Github Makes Source Code Management Easier

By Mark Aspillera | Aug 09 2012

Every program you're running on your computer right now, from your web browser to the operating system itself, was built on a foundation of source code, the language in which software communicates. Github transforms source ... Read More

Atlassian Revamps ALM With Customer Service Focus

Atlassian Revamps ALM With Customer Service Focus

By Mark Aspillera | Jul 12 2012

Atlassian, a top ALM software vendor, began like many other Silicon Valley startups, with two college dropouts who shared an aversion to corporatized software development. Jira is Atlassian's flagship program, which, as a top application ... Read More

What's in Store for ALM in 2011

What's in Store for ALM in 2011

By George Middleton | Feb 10 2011

As applications are dominating the software, computing and network spaces as of late – and significant growth in this area continues to dominate forecasts – immense opportunity is being created in the Application Lifecycle Management ... Read More

Agile software development morphs QA Jobs

Agile software development morphs QA Jobs

By George Middleton | Jun 21 2010

The role of the QA professional has changed in recent years, as these must adapt to the adoption of QA software in the cloud. The skills now needed for QA professionals, who work with ALM ... Read More