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Playing the Critical Friend through Enterprise Analysis Enterprise analysis focuses on achieving a solid understanding of the problem or opportunity and the business and customer value that the organization hopes to achieve. An important part of enterprise analysis is acting as a critical friend when stakeholders can't see beyond the silver packaging. |
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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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Are Data Centers Harming the Environment? Since The New York Times’s explosive piece on data centers and their apparent harmful effects on the environment came out, members of the tech media and industry have voiced their concerns about what the article got wrong. |
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Are Change Packages Really Necessary in Software CM? A change package in software configuration management goes by many names. The CM industry realizes that the change package concept is fundamental to software CM and that life without updates can be complex. |
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There’s More to User Experience Than Pretty Pixels User experience (UX) is not solely about layout, colour themes, and pretty pixels. User experience is about making your product work well for your users. UX designers attempt to narrow the gap between what people expect your product to do and what it actually does. |
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Are QA Analysts Becoming Extinct? Recent observations about QA analyst job opportunities declining while automation engineer opportunities are increasing has many wondering whether QA analysts being replaced by automation. |
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Enhancing Cloud Application Portability across Clouds The cloud application portability promise is seductive, and open specifications position customer choice as a risk-free proposition. Seamlessly migrating applications across cloud service providers and achieving desired portability will require preventing lock-in. |
