SmartBiz IT Research Library

WHITE PAPER - Changing business environment's demands a more adaptable approach to software delivery. Read this paper to learn how agile development is transforming the way software development organizations deliver value and become software delivery organizations.
Posted: October 2, 2008 | Published: September 26, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Collaboration | Customer Satisfaction | Productivity | Quality Control | Software Development Tools | Testing

DATA SHEET - This document contains the data from the The 3rd Annual ‘ State of Agile Development' survey. Its goal was to report on the status of organizations currently implementing or practicing Agile methods. Read now to learn more.
Posted: October 2, 2008 | Published: September 26, 2008


Topics:  Collaboration | Customer Satisfaction | Data Management | Organization Change Management | Project Management | Reporting Software | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools | Testing

WHITE PAPER - This 2008 SearchSoftwareQuality.com Agile Trends Survey provides insight into the challenges faced by agile developers, how they utilize test cases and the tools they prefer for optimal software development.
Posted: September 23, 2008 | Published: September 23, 2008


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

WEBCAST - View this Webcast and explore critical recommendations for leaders of organizations moving to full-scale agile development.
Posted: September 23, 2008 | Premiered: October 7, 2008


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Data Modeling | Software Architectures | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools | Software Metrics

WEBCAST - View this Webcast and explore critical recommendations for leaders of organizations moving to full-scale agile development.
Posted: September 23, 2008 | Premiered: October 8, 2008


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Data Modeling | Software Architectures | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools | Software Metrics

WHITE PAPER - This paper details the challenges and solutions available for companies wanting to improve their software development process, reduce costs, improve quality. It also presents examples of companies that have successfully implemented Strategic QA.
Posted: September 19, 2008 | Published: September 19, 2008


Topics:  Change Management | Quality Control | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Tools | Software Quality Assurance | Software Testing

WHITE PAPER - This paper examines why Model Driven Design (MDD) is emerging as a preferred Best Practices for embedded software development. It presents MDD is the methodology that delivers the most developer productivity, upgrade capabilities and component reuse.
Posted: September 19, 2008 | Published: September 19, 2008


Topics:  Embedded Systems Software | Model Driven Architecture | Software Best Practices | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools | Software Project Management | Software Upgrades | UML

WHITE PAPER - This paper examines the evolution of the data integration and quality industry, and explains the benefits of moving toward a single data services architecture.
Posted: September 19, 2008 | Published: March 1, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Data Integration | Data Management Software | Data Quality | Data Warehouses | IT Spending | Master Data Management | Project Management | Risk Management | SOA | Software Development Tools | Software Implementation

VIDEO - In this Videocast, you will discover how automated testing can be used during software development, particularly agile software development.
Posted: September 18, 2008 | Premiered: September 17, 2008


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

SOFTWARE DEMO - The Azul REALTime Performance Monitor is highlighted in this introductory demonstration. Take a virtual tour of the tool that lets you analyze your application's thread stacks, CPU, I/O, GC and memory usage in both development and production.
Posted: September 8, 2008 | Published: September 8, 2008


Topics:  Application Monitoring | Application Monitoring Software | Memory | Performance Testing | Software Development Tools | Software Quality Assurance | Software Testing

WHITE PAPER - This white paper discusses the key challenges involved in managing outsourced and offshore product development programs. Learn more in this Outsourcing Software Development Kit.
Posted: September 4, 2008 | Published: September 4, 2008


Topics:  CMM (Capability Maturity Model) | Co-Location Facilities | Collaboration | Knowledge Management | Outsourcing | Product Development | Software Development Tools | Systems Management

WHITE PAPER - This paper explains the Agile practices and approaches must be blended with proven enterprise practices to achieve the right mix of agility and discipline.
Posted: August 28, 2008 | Published: August 28, 2008


Topics:  Application Development | Application Life-Cycle Management | Enterprise | Project Management | Regulatory Compliance | Software Development Tools

WHITE PAPER - This article explains various approaches for agile project management and provide comparisons between the simplest tools (index cards and whiteboards), spreadsheets, traditional project management software and agile project management software.
Posted: August 26, 2008 | Published: August 26, 2008


Topics:  Backups | Project Management | Software Development Tools | Spreadsheets

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 - This whitepaper discusses how VLA is transforming the test and development lab, and provides best practices for automating the test and dev process to maintain or strengthen your competitive advantage by getting better products to market faster.
Posted: August 11, 2008 | Published: August 1, 2008


Topics:  Quality Control | Software Development Methodologies | Software Development Tools | Software Project Management | Software Quality Assurance | Software Testing