The thirty years I have spent in software have bridged a period of remarkable and ever accelerating change. Yet while technology, tools and processes have all evolved, we continue to have the same software problems. What’s to blame, software or our strategies?
We talked to Embarcadero Technologies’ Director of Product Management John “JT” Thomas and learned how Embarcadero’s latest product, RAD Studio XE4, brings the best of both worlds to developers.
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. We normally think of failure as a negative thing; but it can have its upside. Saddling a competitor or enemy with a doomed project could stain their career or at the very least inflict a high level of pain on them. A CEO about to retire, or whose focus is on near term stock options, may be able to boost quarterly profits by continuing to add staff to a doomed effort: one for which the customer pays for the added staff, of course.
SMART TS XL is an application discovery software suite designed to analyze text assets, search code bases and provide insight into programs, both structured and unstructured information, change management resources, ticketing systems and documentation. The suite enables users to search, hyperlink and cross-reference data, as well as provides code complexity estimates.
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 of building your own apps from scratch.
Employing rapid application development practices, the KeyedIn Flex Platform enables you to develop cloud-based applications quickly and effectively.
Tricentis Tosca is continuous test automation and DevOps software that utilizes model-based test automation, provides insight into release candidates, and enables users to achieve sustainable automation processes. The platform is designed to automate testing processes, run exploratory testing operations, optimize applications, and report on multiple system aspects such as analytics and risk analysis.
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 is that writing a business case takes two to three months and CxOs normally only read the executive summary. So instead of spending 2 to 3 months, you spend hours or days and get it in front of customers to get feedback.
Cincom MANTIS is an application development software solution that fosters productivity in all stages of program development. The platform allows users to create programs for z/OS, VSE, Open/VMS, UNIX, Linux and Windows.
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, and also very popular in those times was prototyping. For seamless project delivery, you’ll have to choose the right project development methodology. Here are useful tips for making the right choice.