Earlier this week, UK-based application modernisation technology vendor Micro Focus announced that it’s purchasing Borland, as well as the testing and quality management software assets of Compuware. Bola Rotibi, our Software Delivery Principal Analyst, has a great piece on this over on our new Software Delivery blog. Please check it out – Borland acquisition: it [...]
Posted on Friday, May 8, 2009 by adminThis is the fourth in our Software Delivery InFocus series of podcast episodes, starring Bola Rotibi – the Principal Analyst of MWD’s Software Delivery competency area. In this episode, she discusses the thorny issue of software quality. This is something the IT industry has talked about for decades – so why is it still so [...]
Posted on Wednesday, May 6, 2009 by adminUncategorized
Yesterday I spent the evening at a dinner in London as a stand-in for my colleague Bola Rotibi, talking about Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and governing software delivery to a group of around 20 senior IT leaders. Due to my own disorganisation I’d not realised that this was a stand-up talk with no visuals or [...]
Posted on Friday, March 20, 2009 by adminI recently finished some research on the cost and quality benefits of upfront, automated code and design review (i.e. prior to and during the development and build process) through static analysis. One of my conclusions was that the case for “good enough” is no longer good enough in delivering software. But some might argue that [...]
Posted on Monday, August 11, 2008 by admin
