Software Project Management Reports

WHITE PAPER: Effective governance for lean development isn’t about command and control. Instead, the focus is on enabling the right behaviors and practices through collaborative and supportive techniques. Learn how to form a lightweight, collaboration-based framework that reflects the realities of modern IT organizations.

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 | Published: 21 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Basis path testing, also known as Structured Testing, is the primary code-based testing strategy recommended by McCabe Software and supported by McCabe IQ. The main idea behind this testing is that decision outcomes within a software function should be tested independently. This article provides an overview of the benefits of basis path testing.

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 | Published: 15 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Continuous improvement, improving processes and increasing efficiencies are important when the economy heads south. Although the current economic situation is improving, many organizations are opting to keep operational expenses on a tight leash. View this paper to learn how to Increase productivity and reduce costs across the enterprise.

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 | Published: 25 Feb 2011

EGUIDE: Software development teams are often faced with requirements to add new features to an existing code base. For many reasons, this sort of work can entail a lot of risk. This Expert Tip examines mistakes in managing the requirements process and how by looking at requirements from the perspective of all team members, these mistakes can be avoided.

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 | Published: 24 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper explains how IBM Rational® software provides a comprehensive application development solution for Power Systems servers to help organizations build, maintain, leverage and optimize their software assets.

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 | Published: 04 Feb 2011

CASE STUDY: Experian needed to enhance its consumer insight and market analysis tool, Micromarketer, to give customers a more powerful and flexible engine. Experian leveraged Alteryx data- and country-neutral core technology to redevelop its Micromarketer product. The result was a new release named Micromarketer Generation 3 (G3).

Posted: 11 Jan 2011 | Published: 11 Jan 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Read this presentation transcript from IBM as it explores quality management strategies that can deliver a positive ROI while at the same time improving delivered quality and reducing risk and uncertainty in development projects.

Posted: 06 Jan 2011 | Published: 05 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn the top ten best practices to help fulfill the SSLP’s mission of building hack-resilient software.

Posted: 15 Dec 2010 | Published: 15 Dec 2010

DATA SHEET: IBM Rational Quality Manager offers two views on the individual user’s dashboard: A work-item list that shows a tester what work has been assigned to him or her, and a team event log that updates automatically as activities occur/progress. Together these views help ensure that everyone is on the same page.

Posted: 14 Dec 2010 | Published: 14 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This executive brief will illustrate the progression of service management since the 1990s, illuminate the hidden service life cycles and discuss how, once they are visible, we can start to make them work — to improve services and better align IT with business objectives.

Posted: 03 Dec 2010 | Published: 03 Dec 2010

ASSESSMENT TOOL: Find out how IBM Rational® can provide you with solutions to improve organizational efficiency, reduce your TCO, and position your organization for long-term growth. Choose a solution that addresses one or more of your needs, and the tool will help you determine your ROI or estimate the value your organization could attain with IBM Rational.

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 | Published: 18 Nov 2010

SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD: Rational Team Concert enables Agile development teams to track work items, control source code, create and manage defects, and manage the lifecycle of software projects. Download now and get RTC-Express-C free for up to 10 developers or get your hands dirty in our live sandbox with no download required.

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 | Premiered: 12 Nov 2010

EBOOK: SAP upgrades are a perennial challenge - especially for organizations with many instances or customizations. The struggling economy has also made it all the more difficult to make a case for a technical SAP ERP upgrade. But maintaining upgrade best practices and avoiding mistakes can help avoid costly downtime and issues during upgrade projects.

Posted: 03 Nov 2010 | Published: 03 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper looks at quality strategies which deliver a positive operational return on investment, improving quality whilst reducing cost and risk. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 02 Nov 2010 | Published: 08 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: Get the help your organization needs to link product paths into an intelligent whole, using software as the invisible thread to make it happen. This white paper examines software delivery for smart products, plus strategies for turning software development evolution into a business practice, and more.

Posted: 02 Nov 2010 | Published: 14 May 2010

WHITE PAPER: Your customers expect the highest quality in the products you deliver. Discover how a comprehensive, integrated, automated requirements centric model and code based test environment managed with an extensible quality management system can increase market acceptance, ensure customer loyalty and deliver superior outcomes.

Posted: 02 Nov 2010 | Published: 01 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Automated testing will shorten your development cycles, avoid cumbersome repetitive tasks and help improve software quality but how do you get started? The best practices discussed in this white paper help ensure results and a successful foundation for improving your software quality.

Posted: 14 Sep 2010 | Published: 14 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper recommends best practices for efficient, lightweight peer code review that have been proven to be effective via scientific study and extensive field experience. Use the techniques discussed in this paper to ensure your code reviews improve your code and make the most of your developers' time.

Posted: 14 Sep 2010 | Published: 14 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: Software development teams are always looking for an edge to produce features more quickly while retaining a high level of software quality. This document describes best practices for uniting both automated and manual test efforts to improve your software releases and obtain the highest quality releases in the shortest amount of time.

Posted: 14 Sep 2010 | Published: 14 Sep 2010

SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD: IT Problem: JIRA provides issue tracking and project tracking for software development teams to improve code quality and the speed of development. Combining a clean interface for organising issues with customisable workflows, JIRA is the perfect fit for your team.

Posted: 25 Aug 2010 | Premiered: 25 Aug 2010

WEBCAST: Join Sue Green, Market Manager for IBM Rational Systems at this webcast as she shows you a structured approach to seizing opportunity and managing change amid the fast pace world and complexity of smarter product development.

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 | Premiered: Aug 17, 2010

WHITE PAPER: Despite criticism of application development methodology over the years, some fundamental problems haven’t been addressed successfully. This paper examines a new direction supported by the IBM InfoSphere Foundation Tools. These tools provide a coordinated approach well-suited to the special needs of contemporary information-centric development.

Posted: 16 Aug 2010 | Published: 13 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how this software can aid in starting new projects and adding and transitioning team members quickly, thereby increasing your ability to respond to changes in your business as well as marketplace demands.

Posted: 04 Aug 2010 | Published: 29 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: Working together, HP and CollabNet offer a true end-to-end ALM solution. This paper describes the integration that offers efficiency improvements leading to higher quality software delivered at increased velocity. Enterprise-wide, stakeholders can stay in their specialized environments and still take advantage of improved processes.

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 | Published: 13 Jul 2010

ASSESSMENT TOOL: Check out this tool for an estimation of the return associated with implementing our collaborative software delivery solution.

Posted: 16 Jun 2010 | Published: 16 Jun 2010