New outsourced app development service launches
Friday, January 31, 2020 by Richard Harris
System Soft Technologies (SSTech) announced the formal launch of an application development outsourcing service to help SMBs drive the innovation required to meet the demands of digital transformation.
The AppSimpleTM service successfully offered in beta in 2019, supplements and enhances the design, test, and deployment skills and experience of SMBs’ in-house t...
Nureva adds 13 agile-themed templates to Span Workspace
Wednesday, December 4, 2019 by Richard Harris
Nureva Inc. announced that it has added 13 agile-themed templates to Span Workspace, Nureva’s expansive cloud-based digital canvas for visual planning and team collaboration. These customizable templates are designed to help teams accelerate common, recurring agile and Scrum activities while improving team engagement and collaboration. They cov...
2pass app development
Monday, December 18, 2017 by Karthick Viswanathan
The concept of Bimodal IT is changing the face of enterprise operations, which need to be agile and secure, but also need to de-silo business and technology operations for the sake of creating better applications. As Gartner defines it, "Bimodal IT is the practice of managing two separate and coherent modes of IT delivery - one of them focuses on stability and the other...
Talend releases selfservice data preparation tool
Thursday, October 19, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Talend has unveiled a new version of Talend Integration Cloud (TIC), the company’s scalable and secure integration platform-as-a-service (iPaaS) solution, which leverages the power of the cloud to enable widespread use of data for decision making. The new release includes a cloud-based version of Talend Data Preparation, which delivers data-as-a-service, 24x7, to a vari...
The problems with agile development
Thursday, February 16, 2017 by Matt Bridges
In many industries, agile development has become standard practice for creating software applications. The benefits are clear: the methodology produces faster results, and often, superior software. So, what are the drawbacks to agile? For the project manager, the drawback is risk. Project managers live with the reality that software estimation is messy and uncertain, an...
Is Agile development really that great
Saturday, November 5, 2016 by Richard Harris
Agile is buzz word among various industries. Many experts are talking about the importance of agility in the enterprise -but do we really know what it means to be agile and how it benefits business?Todd Olson, CEO of BI/UX company, Pendo.io, thinks it’s important for the entire organization to understand agility at the team-level. From prioritize work across teams, to a...
Why release automation is critical in the application lifecycle
Wednesday, November 2, 2016 by Richard Harris
We all know application release automation is a growing area in DevOps, and Gartner has finally acknowledged that by issuing a brand new Magic Quadrant. The Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Release Automation states that this market is poised for growth, with a projected CAGR of 20% through 2020.CA Technologies was recently named a leader in the report for its CA ...
The Problem With Sort Of Doing Agile Mobile Development
Friday, August 19, 2016 by Zubin Irani
Agile development combines process, technology, and mindset in a deliberate way. If you neglect any one of those three pillars in mobile development, you’re setting yourself up to fail. “Sort of” Agile just won’t work.
Here’s why: Mobile users and desktop users have very different expectations. On desktop, if your website has low-p...
Six Best Practices to Better Agile Implementation
Wednesday, June 1, 2016 by Mark Orttung
While Agile software development has become the dominant methodology adopted by software development groups, many companies - including some of the most innovative - are not using it to its fullest potential. An alternative to traditional project management, the Agile approach is a set of principles for software development in which requirements and solutions evolv...
Making Application Testing a First Class Citizen of the Agile Age
Saturday, May 7, 2016 by Richard Harris
BlazeMeter recently announced new functionality to its application testing platform by adding technology that provides the ability to create load and performance tests as brief fragments of code in any text editor. Developers can run any combination of open source tools including Gatling, The Grinder, Locust, Selenium and JMeter tests in parallel through a single unifie...
About SelfOrganizing Teams
Monday, April 11, 2016 by Clementino de Mendonca
A question from a budding Scrum Master, who is transitioning from a background as a traditional project manager:“In order to promote team bonding and self-organization, from now on I am going to try something new with the team. In the sprint planning meeting, instead of me breaking down the tasks for user stories between each team member, I am going to just identify tas...
Six Best Practices to Better Agile Implementation
Wednesday, April 6, 2016 by Mark Orttung
While Agile software development has become the dominant methodology adopted by software development groups, many companies - including some of the most innovative - are not using it to its fullest potential. An alternative to traditional project management, the Agile approach is a set of principles for software development in which requirements and solutions evolv...
Study Shows Companies Want Apps to Directly Impact Their Bottom Line
Tuesday, December 29, 2015 by Richard Harris
We recently visited with Mark Lorion, Chief Marketing Officer & Head of Product at Apperian, about the ramifications of the results of Apperian’s recently published the 2015 Enterprise Mobile App Trend Report, which analyzed nearly two million app deployments across hundreds of thousands of enterprise users.Lorion is the CMO and Head of Product, whose responsibility...
How Cloud Helps Agility
Wednesday, September 9, 2015 by Eric Naiburg
Most software development groups, whether they are within large Fortune 500 enterprises or the small shop around the corner, are looking to become more agile. You’ll notice I said the word “more” as many are already following a large portion of the elements of agility and are much further along than they were just a few years ago, but the goal to improve is always...
Meeting Expectations Means Embracing Change Throughout a Project
Tuesday, August 4, 2015 by Joe Carrolo
A few years ago, a client asked if I had any advice for how to set expectations. He was part of a team that hired us to build his company’s first app. As our primary day-to-day contact for the project, he was nervous that by the end of the project, the final deliverable might not meet some of his internal stakeholders’ lofty expectations.I paused for a moment before I a...
