WHITE PAPER - This white paper is an excerpt from the book "Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprises", and describes the iteration pattern and activities that a team engages in to create tested, value-delivered code in a short time box.
Posted: August 14, 2008 | Published: August 14, 2008


Topics:  Code Management | Project Management | Project Management Software | Software Configuration Management | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools

WHITE PAPER - The pressures of a truly global economy cause today's business to increasingly rely on their ability to produce software as a key competitive advantage. This whitepaper is a "playbook" of ideas about implementing Scrum within an enterprise.
Posted: August 14, 2008 | Published: August 14, 2008


Topics:  CIOs | Collaboration | Collaborative Applications Software | Quality Control | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools | Software Project Management | Software Quality Assurance

WHITE PAPER - Many IT project management initiatives often miss goals, exceed budgets and fail to deliver benefits. Read this paper to learn how optimizing project management can help organizations transition from managing IT projects to managing business outcomes.
Posted: August 1, 2008 | Published: August 1, 2008


Topics:  Application Life-Cycle Management | Business IT Alignment | Business Process Management | IT Best Practices | Project Management | Project Management Software | Project Portfolio Management | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools

WHITE PAPER - This paper examines the fundamental elements needed to successfully engineer your SaaS product. It consolidates the technology strategies to build on-demand products and is the result of helping several ISVs transition to an on-demand environment.
Posted: July 21, 2008 | Published: July 18, 2008


Topics:  Application Deployment | ISVs | OEMs | Programming | Project Management | Software Architectures | Software as a Service | Software Configuration Management | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools

WHITE PAPER - This white paper discusses how to eliminate common requirements errors for a more effective software development lifecycle.
Posted: June 17, 2008 | Published: January 1, 2008


Topics:  Functional Requirements | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools | Software Project Management

WHITE PAPER - This white paper discusses SOA deployment best practices and lessons learned. Learn how to use SOA technology to better support agile business innovation and optimization.
Posted: June 10, 2008 | Published: November 1, 2007


Topics:  Application Deployment | Best Practices | Business Process Management | Business Process Management Software | Change Management | SOA | SOA Governance | Software Development Methodologies

WHITE PAPER - This white paper explores the importance of fast-paced requirements management in the delivery of agile software development projects. Learn how requirements management can effectively reduce the cost and duration of application development.
Posted: June 10, 2008 | Published: April 1, 2007


Topics:  Functional Requirements | IT Governance | Risk Management | ROI | Security | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools | Software Project Management

WHITE PAPER - In this document, John Hosken will explain a little bit about the SAP development subscription and also talk about what the differences are between the SDN subscription system and the various flavors of trial versions.
Posted: June 9, 2008 | Published: June 1, 2008


Topics:  NetWeaver | SAP (Product) | Software Configuration Management | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools | Software Installation

WHITE PAPER - TechExcel DevSuite is built with the best-practice that specifications - from formal specifications, to competitive information to issue resolution and customer insight - is central to any product development initiative.
Posted: June 5, 2008 | Published: June 5, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Collaboration | Software Development Methodologies | Software Quality Assurance

WHITE PAPER - Read this white paper and learn a better way to deliver applications and how to providing access to business data without losing control with New Tactics for enhancing performance across the network.
Posted: May 5, 2008 | Published: May 1, 2008


Topics:  Application Deployment | Blade Servers | Managed Security Services | Networking | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools | Software Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - This paper provides an overview of the product along with practical advice for those who are considering Mercury Business Process Testing for optimizing their own manual processes or moving toward test automation.
Posted: April 29, 2008 | Published: January 1, 2006


Topics:  Business Processes | Customers | Functional Testing | Software Best Practices | Software Development Methodologies | Software Quality Assurance | Software Testing

WHITE PAPER - By automating functional testing, you can take major steps forward to improve automated business processes. Your development and QA teams can increase the speed and accuracy, and your IT department can achieve a higher ROI from software projects.
Posted: April 29, 2008 | Published: April 1, 2007


Topics:  Functional Testing | Quality Control | Quality Control Staff | Return On Investment | Software Development Methodologies | Software Quality Assurance | Software Testing

WHITE PAPER - This paper examines the relationship between business and IT groups within the typical enterprise and explores how the implementation of a Business Rules Management System (BRMS) allows both groups find common ground.
Posted: April 10, 2008 | Published: March 1, 2006


Topics:  Key Performance Indicators | Personalization | Policy-Based Network Management | Software Developers | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools | Testing

WHITE PAPER - This white paper discusses the decisive role automated source code analysis plays in effective software development and application security.
Posted: April 10, 2008 | Published: April 1, 2008


Topics:  Application Security | C++ | Debugging | Java | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Methodologies | Software Quality Assurance | Software Testing | Source Code Control | Source Code Control Software

WHITE PAPER - This white paper explores the various stages of source code analysis development. Discover how effective source code analysis facilitates reduced costs, improved software quality and shorter development time.
Posted: April 10, 2008 | Published: February 1, 2008


Topics:  Application Security | Debugging | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Methodologies | Software Quality Assurance | Software Testing | Source Code Control | Source Code Control Software

WHITE PAPER - This white paper explores the results from an analysis of multiple open source projects that are commonly used in embedded development.
Posted: April 10, 2008 | Published: April 1, 2008


Topics:  Debugging | Embedded Systems Software | Open Source | Project Management | Software Development Methodologies | Software Testing | Source Code Control | Source Code Control Software | Vulnerability Management

WHITE PAPER - Software Testing and Debugging provides an overview of how to detect and test code performance and security vulnerabilities early in the development cycle.
Posted: March 20, 2008 | Published: March 20, 2008


Topics:  Application Security | Best Practices | Code Management | Debugging | Documentation | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools | Software Quality Assurance | Software Testing | User Experience

WHITE PAPER - This paper will review the most common pitfalls that software developers face when creating multi-threaded applications. Discover how static analysis techniques can be used to eliminate concurrency defects earlier in the lifecycle.
Posted: March 5, 2008 | Published: March 3, 2008


Topics:  Simulation and Analysis Software | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools | Software Quality Assurance | Software Testing | Vulnerability Management

WHITE PAPER - This white paper discusses how static source code analysis can be used to find critical defects and security vulnerabilities in C/C++ and Java source code.
Posted: March 5, 2008 | Published: March 3, 2008


Topics:  Code Management | Java | Simulation and Analysis Software | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools | Software Quality Assurance | Software Testing | Vulnerability Management

WHITE PAPER - This white paper explores the nine essential stages of effective software testing during the development lifecycle, detailing tools and techniques which enhance productivity during each phase.
Posted: October 29, 2007 | Published: October 29, 2007


Topics:  Performance Testing | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools | Software Project Management | Software Quality Assurance | Software Testing

WHITE PAPER - Software Asset Management (SAM) can deliver increased efficiency, better cost control, risk mitigation and patch management. This paper provides an overview of SAM benefits, and addresses the specific issues in getting SAM running in your company.
Posted: September 7, 2007 | Published: July 1, 2008


Topics:  Compliance Best Practices | Compliance Software | Corporate Governance | Regulatory Compliance | Risk Management | Security Management | Software Asset Management | Software Best Practices | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools | Software Quality Assurance

WHITE PAPER - This white paper details methods for implementing concurrent computing to better meet the performance and scalability needs of increasingly complex business applications on multi-core systems.
Posted: August 27, 2007 | Published: January 1, 2007


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Application Performance Management Software | Business Process Management | CVS Software | Grid Computing | Multi-core Processors | Multithreading | Parallel Processing | SOA | Software Development Methodologies | Software Quality Assurance

WHITE PAPER - This paper is a statement by the OMG Architecture Board (AB) of the expanded vision necessary to support interoperability with specifications that address integration through the entire systems life cycle.
Posted: July 3, 2002 | Published: July 9, 2001


Topics:  Application Integration | Application Life-Cycle Management | CORBA | DCOM | Interface Definition Language | Interoperability | Model Driven Architecture | Object Management Group | Software Development Methodologies

WHITE PAPER - The task and directions of the model driven architecture solution are outlined in this paper.
Posted: July 3, 2002 | Published: November 27, 2000


Topics:  Application Integration | CORBA | Interoperability | Legacy Applications Software | Manufacturing Industry | Middleware | Model Driven Architecture | Object Management Group | Software Development Methodologies | UML

WHITE PAPER - Here we describe the application development process supported by the MDA - how information flows from one set of artifacts to the next, and how the MDA process ultimately yields an application running on virtually any target middleware platform.
Posted: July 3, 2002 | Published: November 1, 2001


Topics:  Application Life-Cycle Management | Banking Industry | Consulting Services Industry | CORBA | Interoperability | Manufacturing Industry | Middleware | Model Driven Architecture | Object Management Group | Software Development Methodologies | UML | Web Services