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- Gathering detailed requirements is the first part of the project lifecycle
- Client engagement modelHello,I would like to know what you think what should be the model of cooperation with client.Let's assume we some software development company have the software development project for external client and we plan to manage this project in "waterfall" model. When we sign a fixed price contract...
- Tags: waterfall, maciej@..., software development
- Discussion threads 2007-01-31
- Manage the Unmanageable: The Importance of Governance in the Project Life Cycle
- Software development projects are notorious for cost overruns, missed deadlines, and constantly changing scopes. Why is that? Why is it that when one sets out to develop a product - be it an operating system, a device driver, an internal application, or even just a Web page - one can't...
- Tags: Governance, IBM Corp., Software Development Project, Software Development, Development Tools, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2006-05-16
- Do you use Unified Modeling Language in software development projects?
- Polling Place examines the results from TechRepublic's Quick Poll: Do you use Unified Modeling Language in software development projects?
- Tags: Programming languages, Development tools, TechRepublic Staff, software development project, UML, software development, software, Polling Place
- Technical articles 2000-11-17
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- Improving Software Development Management Through Software Project Telemetry
- Software project telemetry is a new approach to software project management in which sensors are attached to development environment tools to unobtrusively monitor the process and products of development. This sensor data is abstracted into high-level perspectives on development trends called Telemetry Reports, which provide project members with insights useful...
- Tags: Software, Software Development, Telemetry, Tools & Techniques, Management
- White papers 2005-01-20
- Project Management & Software Development Methodology
- Aside from the commercially available methodologies such as Prince 2 and Rational Unified Process, there are many methodology developed to suit individual organisations. This white paper sets out to provide a better understanding of methodologies, and how they can be developed and implemented. It is important to differentiate between a...
- Tags: Methodology, Project Management Methodology, Software Development, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Development Tools, Software/Web Development, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- White papers 2005-06-27
- The IBM Rational Software Development Platform
- This webcast shows the IBM Rational software development tools, their broad range of functionality and use throughout the entire software development process, focusing on application modeling, design, development, coding, testing, and deployment. Software development is a business process. Rational recognizes that it takes many different talents to make a development...
- Tags: IBM Corp., Software Development, Development Tools, Software/Web Development
- Webcasts
- Planning a Project with the Rational Unified Process
- This white paper, written for project managers and software development managers who are about to embark on the process of planning for a software development project, describes a practical approach to project planning based on the RUP project management discipline.
- Tags: RUP, Software, IBM Corp., Software Development, UML, Development Tools, Tools & Techniques, Software/Web Development, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Management
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Planning a Project with the IBM Rational Unified Process
- This white paper, written for project managers and software development managers who are about to embark on the process of planning for a software development project, describes a practical approach to project planning based on the Rational Unified Process RUP project management discipline. It discusses how to create a coarse-grained...
- Tags: Software, IBM Corp., Software Development, Development Tools, Tools & Techniques, UML, Software/Web Development, Management, Ooa/Ood/Oop
- White papers 2003-08-27
- The FreeBSD Project: A Replication Case Study of Open Source Development
- Case studies can help to validate claims that open source software development produces higher quality software at lower cost than traditional commercial development. This case study of the FreeBSD project, a long-lived open source project, provides further understanding of open source development. The paper details a method for mining repositories...
- Tags: Colorado State University, FreeBSD, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software
- White papers
- Practical Development Environments: Project Basics
- This paper briefly describes the different parts of a project and then introduces the main activities involved in software development and the corresponding tools that make up a development environment. The activities are Software Configuration Management SCM, building software, testing software, tracking bugs, writing documentation, releasing products, and maintenance. This...
- Tags: Software, Environment, O'Reilly Media Inc., Development Environment, Development Tools, Tools & Techniques, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management
- Book chapters 2005-09-13
- Ensure project success by first building a practical development environment
- This chapter excerpt from O'Reilly's Practical Development Environments describes the different parts of a development project and then introduces the main activities involved in software development and the corresponding tools that make up a development environment. Building a development environment may not be a sexy topic to...
- Tags: Environment, O'Reilly Media Inc., Tool, Development Environment, Productivity, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Book chapters 2005-11-25
- Key Principles for Business-Driven Development
- As the paper noted at the beginning, the principles have evolved from their origins over a decade ago, when software developers generally worked in a somewhat more limited context. The knowledge about software development, along with the overall conditions for project success, has matured and expanded. Today's business-driven software development...
- Tags: Software, Business-driven Development, Software Development, Tools & Techniques, Development Tools, Regulatory Compliance, Software/Web Development, Management, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures
- White papers 2005-10-15
- Collaborative Software Development on Demand
- CollabNet is the standard for on-demand collaborative software development networks. Our software and services help distributed enterprises reduce costs and speed development by bringing their people, ideas, processes, and development partners together in one Collaborative Development Environment. This paper outlines how this approach enables a level of rapid innovation and...
- Tags: Software, CollabNet Inc., Software Development, Tools & Techniques, Development Tools, Software/Web Development, Management
- White papers 2006-02-17
- The top 4 things project managers do to destroy software quality
- Project managers often use techniques that are successful at reducing cost and the development time without impacting quality. However, it is possible for them to push their techniques too far. Here is how. In many cases, the manager's drive to get a software development project delivered on...
- Tags: Software, Technique, TechRepublic Inc., Project Manager, Productivity
- Download resources 2005-12-12
- A Study of Software Methodology Analysis: "Great Taste or Less Filling"
- Software project management methodologies that have developed in the past couple of decades have done so to address the endemic problem of software project failures caused, in a large part, by lack of planning and poor execution. Methodologies like Waterfall, Sashimi, Spiral and Agile have all become key tools in...
- Tags: Software, Methodology, Analysis, Tools & Techniques, Software Development, Productivity, Management, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2005-10-03
- Intelligent Assistance for Software Project Management
- This paper examines the issues of assisting software project managers in the decision making processes involved in the planning, managing and executing of a software development project. The role of software project management tools is examined and a proposal for an intelligent assistant system for software project management is set...
- Tags: Software, Software Project Management, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- White papers 2005-10-06
- Software Development Project Outsourcing
- Outsourced software development can offer important business benefits over in house development in many situations. Equally, outsourced development can introduce issues for the project and the long term success of the resulting solution. This paper discusses the potential issues and benefits, and suggests ways to maximise the benefits and avoid...
- Tags: Software, Outsource, Outsourcing, Software Development, Benefits, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Software/Web Development, Human Resources
- White papers 2005-11-30
- Risk Based Software Development: Reducing Risk and Increasing the Probability of Project Success
- All software projects implicitly have associated risks. One of the major sources of risk results from changes that occur during the project's lifecycle. In its most common form, this is seen as changing user requirements. It is, however, not just confined to this area. How an individual deals with changes...
- Tags: Software, Project, Risk, Software Development, Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Security, Software/Web Development, Management
- White papers 2006-05-01
- Overview of Agile Management & Development Methods
- This paper presents an overview of Agile Project Management & Development Methods. The paper will describe the deficiency of normal project development processes, who started Agile Management & development method, what is it made up of and who should use it, differences between Agile development processes and normal development processes,...
- Tags: Method, Project Development, Development Method, Project Management, It Operations, It service Management
- White papers 2005-06-27
- Service Oriented Architecture for a Software Traceability System
- In order to improve software development and keep up with the fast pace of business, standards and methodologies for determining and endorsing effective software development processes have been introduced and put into effect on software projects. The panacea, at least in the confines of this project, is to employ a...
- Tags: Software, SOA, Software Development, Tools & Techniques, Development Tools, Software/Web Development, Management
- White papers 2004-10-24
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