The primary goal of any IT department is to create the right software, on time and on budget with a high degree of quality. To accomplish this consistently, it is imperative that software releases contain well-known and documented change sets. This article discusses a clear way to articulate the problem as well as areas to focus resources that will...   Read Article.

Customer choice is the virtue of product quality that can make or break the success and survival of every business enterprise. Business objectives are not defined by just the bottom-line, as many would have us believe. They are based on creating and retaining satisfied customers by providing products and services that meet and exceed customer needs....   Read Article.

White Paper: The first section of this paper discusses the role that IT will play in complying with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. We examine the sections of the Act that IT executives should take most interest in and how they can be at the table when key decisions are made regarding Sarbanes-Oxley. The second section discusses three popular frameworks or...   Read Article.

With this book, individual developers and small development teams can gain the benefits of configuration management that were previously restricted to large organizations with large budgets. This pragmatic, easy-to-read guide to configuration management comes with all the freeware PC developers need to get started. nbsp; nbsp; Developers will learn...   Read Article.

During my career in software engineering spanning almost two decades across half a dozen organizations, I see a pattern. The organizations can be classified into four categories based on their strengths and weaknesses in management and technical capabilities. In today's business environment of speedy change and uncertainties, if the initiatives...   Read Article.

This document maps out the process and actions one follows to collect and collate all the information a project manager will need before starting a project.nbsp;...   Read Article.

This document maps out the process and actions one follows to collect and collate all the information a project manager will need before starting a project.nbsp;...   Read Article.

Don't risk your software product's success through haphazard integration and release management. This book shows you quot;best practicesquot; for every stage of a successful product release: source code control, product build, testing and defect tracking, code integration, software change management, and release engineering. No matter how large...   Read Article.

As companies grow and become more sophisticated they recognize the need for analysts, both business and QA, to support their Information System functions. Often the practice of software turnover to the QA team is a matter of informal notification. This notification at best includes a module list, functional changes, and a deadline for moving the changes...   Read Article.

Most start-up companies start with paper-based change request management tools and then migrate to automated solutions. Many of the change request management tools available on the market integrate with the change management tool, and ensure that all bug fixes in the code are controlled and managed. Critical bugs reported while the product is in the...   Read Article.

This article gives a solution for workspace management by implementing a simple process.nbsp;...   Read Article.

Companies need to be flexible and innovative in the ways in which they deal with the unfamiliar situations they often find themselves in. We are in a time of great change. The reality of yesterday proves wrong today, and nobody really knows what will be the truth tomorrow. The steadily increasing complexity of the world is asking too much of us. How...   Read Article.

This document details the best practices for Change Management. It outlines the practices that any company can implement easily and with low costs.nbsp;...   Read Article.