Software Project Management

WHITE PAPER: Read what Ovum had to say about IBM's Rational Focal Point in this paper. here, you'll discover who Ovum determined would benefit the most from Focal Point, what applications integrate best with it, and who Focal Point to be less well-suited for.

Posted: 28 Aug 2012 | Published: 01 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to explore the characteristics of a good requirement and learn ten steps to better requirements management.

Posted: 27 Aug 2012 | Published: 30 Jun 2011

WEBCAST: Attend this live webcast at 10:00am PT/1:00pm ET to unlock the secrets of true application agility by learning best practices for bringing together development and operations teams in a collaborative 'DevOps' process.

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 | Premiered: Jul 31, 2012, 13:00 EDT (17:00 GMT)

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn why value-driven project portfolio management (PPM) is so important for delivering successful software and find best practices for ensuring that the projects you launch support the strategic objectives of your business.

Posted: 23 May 2012 | Published: 31 Dec 2011

VIDEO: Get the power to anticipate IT issues - through proactive business insights that practically prevent issues, so that your organization can always perform better. During this video discussion, you'll hear the latest HP Business Service Management (BSM9.1) and how Vodafone realized 300% ROI within the first twelve months.

Posted: 17 May 2012 | Premiered: 16 May 2012

WEBCAST: The downside to modern software delivery strategies such as cloud computing, mobile apps, and agile and composite development methods, is the often overlapping complexities that these innovations introduce to application lifecycles. View this webcast to learn strategies for application lifecycle management (ALM) that reconcile this new complexity.

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 | Premiered: Apr 18, 2012

WHITE PAPER: Today's agile development processes and distributed environments have only increased the complexity of tracking software project requirements. Read this white paper to understand why requirements are slipping through the cracks and discover tools and best practices that can help you create traceability across your modern development organization.

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 | Published: 31 Oct 2011

CASE STUDY: Learn how IBM transformed its own software delivery processes over a 3 year period by adopting Agile practices, improving team collaboration, and systematically acquiring and leveraging development intelligence.

Posted: 09 Mar 2012 | Published: 31 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how a continuous quality assurance approach focusing on requirements, change, and test management can help provide the visibility, control and validation to efficiently deliver quality software.

Posted: 20 Jun 2012 | Published: 20 Jun 2012

EGUIDE: Read this expert e-guide to learn how to lay down a solid foundation for ALM success with: best practices in five crucial development areas; strategies for bringing these five advanced disciplines together in an integrated approach; eight essential software quality metrics to keep, and why you should throw out the rest; and more!

Posted: 04 Jun 2012 | Published: 14 May 2012

EGUIDE: Read this expert e-guide to explore collaborative practices that agile teams are using to minimize requirements churn and become familiar with some of the commercial and open source requirements management tools available today.

Posted: 30 May 2012 | Published: 30 May 2012

EGUIDE: Read this expert e-guide to learn about both open source and commercially available application lifecycle management (ALM) automation tools for requirements traceability, for design and for test. Then, learn a three-step process that will improve the flow of the software delivery process.

Posted: 24 May 2012 | Published: 17 May 2012

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper learn why requirements driven testing (RDT) is so important, what potential areas of the software development life cycle are addressed by RDT, the benefits, and the implementation strategy that may be adopted to introduce RDT within the organization.

Posted: 16 May 2012 | Published: 16 May 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn why you should always have an effective requirements definition before you begin any kind of software development. Use this paper as a guideline to learning how to create an effective outline of expectations, how to put them into action, and the benefits you’ll reap at the end of the process.

Posted: 03 May 2012 | Published: 03 May 2012

EGUIDE: Agile development roles are no longer set in stone. The most successful and efficient teams work together, each adding their own perspective. This featured article uncovers why testers should participate in requirement analysis and how organizations are getting their whole team more involved in Agile projects.

Posted: 02 May 2012 | Published: 02 May 2012

EGUIDE: Read this expert article to find best practices for keeping your iteration and release cycles in sync even as your Agile development projects becoming increasingly complex.

Posted: 18 Apr 2012 | Published: 18 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how to effectively communicate software requirements to all software project stakeholders and enable development collaboration in order to deliver products that align with business and user expectations.

Posted: 12 Apr 2012 | Published: 30 Sep 2011

EGUIDE: Read this expert e-guide to learn you can benefit from a 'DevOps' delivery model in today's accelerated software development environments.

Posted: 11 Apr 2012 | Published: 06 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: DevOps, new tools for improved automation and release management, are taking the software development world by storm. Read this detailed white paper for a comparison of the 11 top vendors in this new space. Learn the strengths and weaknesses of each competitor and determine which one would best suit your development team's needs.

Posted: 09 Apr 2012 | Published: 15 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper gives an overview of the challenges release management presents, three tips for improving your software release strategies, and insight on how effective release management is poised to become a driver of competitive advantage.

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 | Published: 03 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: Familiar with the benefits of agile on a small scale, CIOs are increasingly looking to apply agile methods to broader projects. This white paper discusses the challenges and barriers large enterprises are facing and presents best practices for scaling agile within complex organizations.

Posted: 09 Mar 2012 | Published: 09 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: This buyer's guide describes the key criteria for application lifecycle management (ALM) solutions for today's high-performance teams. It includes key considerations for enhancing your single- or multi-vendor ALM environment.

Posted: 09 Mar 2012 | Published: 31 Dec 2011

ANALYST BRIEF: Organisations adopting agile practices, utilising global and distributed teams, or exploiting complex processes and technologies are most likely to benefit from using ALM tools to plan, manage and report on their development activities. This MarketScope assesses the market offerings and their providers.

Posted: 09 Mar 2012 | Published: 11 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: IBM Rational Team Concert software can help simplify, automate and govern the delivery process. Based on the open standards Jazz platform, it offers a lean collaborative application life cycle management (ALM) solution with integrated planning, work-item tracking, version control, build management and reporting.

Posted: 09 Mar 2012 | Published: 31 Dec 2011

EGUIDE: CIOs are always looking for ways to deliver higher quality software faster, especially in today's bottleneck-prone Agile and iterative environments. As this e-guide explains, streamlining the number of software quality metrics you use as well as implementing lifecycle virtualization can significantly improve your development efficiency.

Posted: 05 Mar 2012 | Published: 01 Mar 2012