New SD Times Articles on Software Development Management
Posted on Thu, Dec 09, 2010
SD Times just published a new software development management article by Adam Kolawa, Parasoft co-founder and CEO.
The software development life cycle is riddled with inefficiencies. As with any manufacturing process, these inefficiencies hamper productivity and ultimately erode an organization's competitive advantage. We need to reassess the life cycle with the mindset that everything we do as a development team either adds value to the customer or creates waste. Our goal should be to optimize productivity: 100% waste-free production...
You can read the complete software development productivity article on the SD Times site.
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SD Times also published an article on Parasoft Concerto: Parasoft homes in on development process with latest Concerto. This article notes:
The new release of Concerto measures projects in real time versus expectations established via policies. Exception-based alerts nudge appropriate team members if action is needed. The product provides visibility into when and how requirements are being implemented. According to Parasoft, Concerto is “Hook-up and go” out of the box, with minimal effort integrating into your existing development environments...
“Development organizations are under pressure to improve productivity and success rates all while the complexity of applications continues to increase. Often we look for the quick fix, and agile is currently the ‘hot’ concept, but making agile work in a sustainable fashion requires getting everyone on the same page working from the same playbook. This requires building common vocabularies and tools that enable collaboration and enable a quality-centric development process; quality sooner rather than later is what enables IT teams to meet the demands of business.”
You can read the complete article at SD Times. Also, you can get a 3-minute introduction to Parasoft Concerto at the Parasoft Concerto ALM site.