When the term “application life cycle” was first introduced, there was no knowledge or even any practice of agile development or Continuous Delivery (CD); there were no wearables, and mobile phones were dramatically different than what they are today. What used to suggest a beginning to an end to a program’s life evolved into this … continue reading
Application performance management solution provider Dynatrace is a private entity once more, becoming an independent business and naming John Van Siclen as its new CEO. After the initial dynaTrace company, which also had Van Siclen as its CEO, was acquired by Compuware in 2011, the company assumed the role of the APM business in the … continue reading
Girls Who Code wants to close the gender gap in the technology industry. The non-profit organization just announced an expansion to its Summer Immersion Program to help educate girls in computer science skills. Previously, the organization provided 19 programs reaching 375 girls, but with the expansion, the organization will be providing 60 programs reaching 1,200 … continue reading
For years businesses have been practicing agile, seeing notable success in time to market, productivity and creativity at the team level. Now they want to expand the scope of those benefits. If you asked development teams a year or two ago to identify the biggest agile obstacle, most of them would have said getting management … continue reading
Technical debt is often the elephant in the room that we choose to ignore, but we do so at our own peril. Technical debt is directly responsible for many of the problems we have in building high-quality software quickly, especially as companies move to more agile methodologies. Having problems releasing quickly? Can’t complete your testing … continue reading
It has been eight years since Quantitative Software Management (QSM) released its Software Almanac, and now the company is putting out an updated version that includes a new section on agile development. The Software Almanac is a compilation of QSM’s years of research and historical data about software projects designed to provide customers with an … continue reading
The race to be the best, deliver high-quality software and to be the first to market has many organizations turning to different methodologies in order to speed up the development process. One methodology organizations have been flocking to in particular is Scrum. “I always will recommend Scrum if an organization is new to Agile and … continue reading
Microsoft describes its Visual Studio Online offering as being “based on the capabilities of Team Foundation Server with additional cloud services.” Productivity across teams is a competitive advantage that is not just nice to have anymore, and a big key to productivity is providing the tools needed for Agile development. The drive to do more, … continue reading
VANCOUVER, BC, October 28, 2014 – Tasktop, the leader in DevOps Integration and the creators of the Eclipse Mylyn open source tool, today announces Tasktop 4.0, a major product release for the company. Tasktop 4.0 advances the state of integration technology through an updated version of Tasktop Sync, the company’s DevOps Integration bus, and the … continue reading
VersionOne recently announced its 2014 Fall Release designed to simplify scaling agile by aligning agile and traditional project teams. “A key to successful enterprise-level agile is breaking down information silos within organizations in order to accelerate decision-making and improve business and IT alignment,” said Robert Holler, CEO of VersionOne. “Our latest release takes a significant … continue reading
OUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.– CollabNet, the leader in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) for Enterprise Agility, today announced its “Enterprise Agility Assessment” services package that helps software organizations streamline company-wide software delivery and increase responsiveness to customer needs. The services package includes a structured assessment of an organization’s current software delivery effectiveness, based on CollabNet’s Blueprint … continue reading
PALO ALTO, Calif., and RALEIGH, N.C. –– Cloudera, the leader in enterprise analytic data management powered by Apache Hadoop, and Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced an alliance to deliver joint enterprise software solutions including data integration and application development tools, and data platforms. By integrating a broad … continue reading
