Software Best Practices

ASSESSMENT TOOL: This one minute survey consists of ten questions to assess your software quality environment. When complete, you will receive custom recommendations that you can view and print out to help plan your QA strategy; complete with next steps, and thought leadership guidance and papers.

Posted: 09 Sep 2009 | Published: 09 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, we'll outline the many benefits of an integrated approach to requirements and quality management, as well as offer best practices for effective requirements-driven testing.

Posted: 22 Jun 2009 | Published: 22 Jun 2009

WEBCAST: Attend this fast-paced presentation and hear from Dan Rawsthorne, as he introduces Agile Release Planning, which is actually the development of a release strategy that must be implemented in an agile way.  Dan shows you how a Release Plan is generated, and then shows how the Release Plan is monitored and managed with metrics from sprint to sprint.

Posted: 10 May 2010 | Premiered: May 10, 2010

EBOOK: SAP upgrades are a perennial challenge - especially for organizations with many instances or customizations. The struggling economy has also made it difficult to make a case for a technical SAP ERP upgrade. Read this paper to learn about six SAP upgrade tips and best practices for global environments which can help avoid costly downtime and issues.

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 | Published: 09 Mar 2010

WHITE PAPER: Mercedes-Benz USA needed to upgrade from 4.6C to ERP 6.0 to manage an increasingly complex application environment while doing it in-house without overtaxing development team members. Read this paper to find out how Panaya helped Mercedes-Benz USA come in on time and under budget with their SAP upgrade.

Posted: 24 Feb 2010 | Published: 24 Feb 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper contains advice on improving application performance. It also gives 10 tips for building and managing a performance center of excellence.

Posted: 09 Feb 2010 | Published: 09 Feb 2010

WHITE PAPER: This document provides the best practices for addressing the "last write wins" issue and key profile use case scenarios that can dramatically benefit with a User Profile Manager solution.

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 | Published: 01 Feb 2009

WEBCAST: Discover an ALM platform that will help meet aggressive government deadlines, centralize development, and implement a long-term strategy that has continued to power global development environments for years.

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 | Premiered: Jan 7, 2010

WHITE PAPER: Requirements management is critical to the success of a project but can be a pain to fully implement. Read this paper to find out what is really required to be successful at requirements management and how requirements management is being redefined to provide a faster, easier, more collaborative way to ensure project success.

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 | Published: 08 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: Companies with mature requirements management and traceability processes achieve 75% higher success rates. Change, if managed poorly, will wreak havoc on even the most talented and experienced development teams. Learn how traceability can benefit your team by helping you stay connected, manage change, improve quality, and more.

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 | Published: 18 Aug 2011

EBOOK: In August 2009, hundreds of SAP system integrators were asked to contribute their best upgrade tips for upgrading to SAP ERP 6.0. We took the best tips we received and compiled them in this eBook for you. Read this eBook to learn over 60 tips on upgrading to SAP ERP 6.0.

Posted: 10 Nov 2009 | Published: 10 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper takes a new look at the SAP upgrade process in light of emerging best practices and new technologies. This report offers a discussion of the value of both technical and functional upgrades as well as a discussion of some of the best practices to enhance the value of your SAP upgrades while lowering overall cost.

Posted: 10 Nov 2009 | Published: 10 Nov 2009

SOFTWARE DEMO: Access IBM Rational Build Forge demos to see how it can be used to create a software assembly line to automate and accelerate software delivery. Learn how Rational Build Forge can help development teams automate repetitive tasks, uncover development bottlenecks, determine trends for specific projects and manage compliance mandates.

Posted: 04 Nov 2009 | Premiered: 15 Oct 2008

WHITE PAPER: Over the past decade, a powerful new approach to development - open source software - has risen to prominence, dramatically increasing the opportunity to re-use existing software. This report describes a set of seven best practices whose objective is to encourage development based on component re-use and software assembly.

Posted: 07 Oct 2009 | Published: 07 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: IBM offers the first integrated software platform dedicated to the delivery of smarter products, with our portfolio of software, hardware and services, IBM can help companies create and manage smarter products for a smarter planet. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 May 2009

EGUIDE: This eGuide provides insight on requirements gathering during the agile process, how to manage upcoming agile projects and how to assimilate current development practices with the new agile methodology.

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 | Published: 18 Sep 2009

TRIAL SOFTWARE: Download a free trial version of IBM® Rational® Team Concert Standard Edition, a member of the Rational Team Concert family of products built on the Jazz Technology Platform. Jazz is a scalable, extensible team collaboration platform for seamlessly integrating tasks across the software lifecycle.

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 | Premiered: 11 Sep 2009

DATA SHEET: This evaluation guide is designed to help you choose the best tool for your needs today, while protecting your investment as your team, needs and agile maturity grow.

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 | Published: 11 Sep 2009

WEBCAST: If you are using Open Source, doing Agile but not able to consistently meet project goals, and aren't sure what tools you need -- check out how Rational Team Concert can help. See how Rational Team Concert automates core Agile practices -- like consistent team collaboration, rapid response to change, and frequent delivery of [...]

Posted: 09 Sep 2009 | Premiered: Sep 9, 2009

WEBCAST: Join us for a live demonstration of 5 key metrics you can use to answer many of the biggest, meatiest issues that confront development teams, and learn practical approaches for increasing efficiency and software quality in your development projects.

Posted: 10 Jul 2009 | Premiered: Jul 22, 2009, 13:00 EDT (17:00 GMT)

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes HP Sarbanes-Oxley IT Assessment Accelerator, a template of pre-defined information based on ITGI's COBIT, which is loaded into HP Quality Center to help your organization define and execute Sarbanes-Oxley testing, evaluate the results, and develop remediation plans.

Posted: 29 Apr 2009 | Published: 01 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: The Office SharePoint Server 2007 document management solution is uniquely positioned to help your organization succeed with its document management goals. With Sharepoint you can extend document management capabilities to all employees, improving compliance with enterprise standards and delivering value to the business.

Posted: 17 Apr 2009 | Published: 01 Aug 2007

WHITE PAPER: Requirements definition and management is an activity that has the potential to deliver a high, fast ROI. This white paper explains the characteristics of a good requirement and presents ten steps to better requirements management. Read on to learn how better requirements translate into easier, higher quality projects.

Posted: 02 Apr 2009 | Published: 01 Oct 2008

WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines the challenges that impede teams as they try to collect, analyze, and evaluate ideas to define the best solution requirements. The paper also provides information on the four critical areas to defining great requirements and how IBM Rational® solutions help teams address these areas.

Posted: 16 Mar 2009 | Published: 13 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: Cloud computing is transforming the way IT departments build and deploy custom applications during lean times and changing the economics of information technology. Here are the 5 reasons why thousands of companies are betting that cloud computing is the right technology strategy for 2009 and beyond.

Posted: 10 Mar 2009 | Published: 10 Mar 2009