quality control

Look at Application Lifecycle Management during Project Inception

During a project’s inception phase various tasks usually take place. Joe Townsend takes a look at application lifecycle management (ALM) during the early stages of a project and what roles configuration management (CM), quality assurance (QA), and quality control (QC) play.

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Knight Capital's Quality Control and CM Problems

On August 1, 2012, Knight Capital experienced what all IT shops hope to avoid. A software release that was put into production caused more than $440 million in trades to take place. Joe Townsend explores the quality control and CM issues that created the problem.

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Software Defects: Why They Won't Go Away

Joe Townsend tackles why software defects in IT projects appear to be increasing in recent years. As the business side increases the pressure for faster and bigger results from IT, mistakes and defects will continue to go up.

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