Abstract: The software industry has established several advanced and sophisticated methods to help organizations with their process improvement programs. Those methods use models, metrics or agility indexes and are generally intense to implement. This article presents an alternative, a simpler method that can get organizations, in particular small settings, to improve...
Abstract: Misconception: Productivity efforts hinder innovation efforts when it takes place in a high-technology or software environment. Productivity and efficiency improvements are actually the best enablers for innovative thinking. The context For many years, the Information Technology industry (IT) valued innovation capability more than productivity. However it is now understood that innovation...
Abstract: Organizations that are developing custom software solution are faced with the difficult choice of picking the right software development life cycle (SDLC). This article summarizes the steps an organization would have to go through in order to make the best possible choice. Problem statement A software development...