Guest View: Preparing for the online doorbusters
With Halloween over, an even scarier event is on the horizon for IT staff: the online doorbusters that come with the winter holiday season. The term “doorbuster” applies (sometimes literally) to...
View ArticleGuest View: Agile should be an organization-wide initiative
Software teams that have migrated to agile processes are benefiting from better collaboration, faster release cycles and tighter QA processes. Yet for agile to reach its full potential in a software or...
View ArticleYou manage your financial debt—What about your tech debt?
Technical debt is real, and teams need a strategy to manage it. Just about every software project accrues tech debt over time. Tech debt manifests itself during development and in production. Ignore it...
View ArticleAnalyst View: Handling customer obsession in 2016
2016 is a stake-in-the-ground year in the age of the customer, a 20-year business cycle in which the most successful enterprises will reinvent themselves to systematically understand and serve...
View ArticleTesting in Production: Risk vs. Reward
Before testers try out new methods that may expose software to many risks, their companies are asking themselves a big question: to test or not to test in production? As companies move to implement...
View ArticleFactors impacting software development productivity
Talk of software development productivity abounds. New languages, like Dart, promise software developers that they don’t have to choose between productivity and performance for the programs they write....
View ArticleAgile was the new norm in 2015
Agile has been a sought-after process for the majority of companies in the software development industry for many years, but 2015 appeared to be the year they all finally started to understand and see...
View Article2015: Testing catches up to DevOps
With mobile, agile, Continuous Delivery and DevOps becoming more popular, testing needed to catch up in 2015. Testers evolved this past year from working solo in silos, to joining developers to deliver...
View ArticleSD Times Blog: Five resolutions for managers
While I don’t like to call myself a manager, I have spent a great deal of time managing people over the years. This has almost always been in a non-profit capacity, though it’s not always simply been...
View ArticleThe worst passwords of 2015, VersionOne unveils its Winter 2016 release, and...
Despite efforts to promote and encourage good cybersecurity practices, Internet users continue to put themselves at risk. SplashData has released its annual Worst Passwords of 2015 list, and it...
View ArticleVulkan 1.0 specification announced, Kotlin 1.0, and Rackspace unveils Data...
The Khronos Group has announced the immediate availability of Vulkan 1.0, a royalty-free open standard API specification. Vulkan has been in the making for 18 months, and is designed to provide...
View ArticleMicro Focus announces Atlas 3.0
Micro Focus wants to give organizations the confidence they need to ensure their business requirements are aligned with their agile goals. The company announced Atlas 3.0, its business requirements and...
View ArticleWhere does agile go from here?
Agile has been around for more than a decade now. It has proven itself at the team level and has scaled to the enterprise, but where does the methodology go from here in today’s modern software...
View ArticleDocker introduces Docker Datacenter
Docker wants to give organizations the ability to manage the entire life cycle of their Dockerized applications. The company is announcing the Docker Datacenter (DDC), an integrated end-to-end platform...
View ArticleIndustry Watch: Great products require a Unified Operating Model
If you work in a large company, you probably have application designers, developers and product managers. And, one of your biggest challenges is to get them to work together, on the same schedule, with...
View ArticleGuest View: Pre-built testing comes of age
Software testing is changing for the better with the rise of agile and DevOps. Instead of testing occurring at the end of the development cycle, modern methods integrate testing into every step of the...
View ArticleGuest View: Understand the mobile ecosystem before you test
Mobile apps are a necessity for companies of all sizes, and apps are getting more complex all the time. That along with the dizzying array of devices requires a well thought-out mobile testing...
View ArticleGuest View: Seven tips for increasing software deployments
More and more enterprises are realizing that a streamlined Continuous Delivery pipeline is an integral part of extracting maximum business value from the DevOps movement. The potential benefits of...
View ArticleLinkapalooza: March 28, 2016
The Linker is M.I.A., but one thing that will never go missing are these links… Swift enlightenment… Four key roles on agile software development teams… Software testing vs. software development… Take...
View ArticleEvolving ALM brings all hands on deck
Before the shift in software methodologies, the application life cycle was fairly simple—or at least straightforward. Now, contextual elements of ALM have changed drastically because of the evolving...
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