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Information Technology Predictions for 2014 The information technology (IT) field has a plethora of people discussing predictions for the coming year. In this story, Joe Townsend explores many of those predictions. Hopefully next year, we can look back and see if they were fulfilled or completely missed. |
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Three Smart New Year’s Resolutions for a Testing Organization When making New Year's resolutions for his testing organization, the author stumbled on three interesting posts that provided additional insight into the overall thought process on where the software testing discipline is heading. These resolutions may help align your work with industry demands. |
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Reduce Your Work in Progress to Make Your Whole Team More Productive When you are a manager, you have to limit your own work in progress. If you don’t, you can’t pay attention to the most important work you have to do, which can affect your whole team. Read on for some tips about how best to manage work in progress, how transparency helps, and achieving efficiency. |
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Why Open Source CM May Not Be As Cheap As You Might Have Thought Joe Farah writes that there’s a lot more to the cost of configuration management than licenses for version control and problem tracking, and all those open source CM tools out there may be a lot more costly than you might have thought. |
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The Cost of Continuous Integration Is Well Worth the Time If you don’t start putting software together a little bit at a time, it gets harder the farther along you go. The cost of continuous integration sometimes can seem high, but it is often well worth the time, even on a large program. Here are some steps to help you move to more continuous integration. |
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Is There a Recommended Duration of Time for a User-Facing Test? When end-user-involved test programs are done before release to production, the duration of tests is a very critical factor in determining the product's success or failure in meeting its goal. How long should you run the program in order to be sure you have enough data points to make a decision? |
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Five Elements for Creating a Healthy Project Culture In a healthy project culture, people work together to accomplish the goal. It doesn’t matter what approach is used—phase gate, iterative, incremental, or agile; health is key. Read on for five elements of a healthy project culture that can help set up your program, small or large, for success. |
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The US Government's Configuration Management Problems Joe Townsend probes the news and finds several stories detailing the US government's problems with configuration management. According to Joe, the defense industry and government agencies should be able to improve if they follow their own standards and directives. |
