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e-Talk Radio: Rubin, Howard, 18 January 2001 In major companies, one out of every four expense dollars is spent on information technology. As IT becomes more important to business, it has to be run as a business--be market competitive, be market ready, offer the customers options, manage itself with a strong fiscal accountability, treat the money it's responsible for as an investment. The notion of running IT as a business really means making IT competitive through the regular market pressures of the business that houses it, and more and more companies are understanding this. |
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e-Talk Radio: Derby, Esther, 4 January 2001 Ms. Dekkers and Ms. Derby talk about various management issues (e.g., promotions based on technical skills instead of people management skills, and the importance of interpersonal skills training for managers) and modeling organizational change. |
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E-Business Testing: Risks and Test Strategy There are five main risk areas in E-Business (EB) system development. These risks relate to usability, performance, security, availability and functionality. This paper presents an overview of the risks of E-Business and a framework for creating an E-business Test Strategy. |
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Seven Deadly Sins of Software Reviews This article describes seven common ways that technical reviews go wrong. Symptoms of the problem and suggestions for getting the review back on track also are presented. |
Karl E. Wiegers
February 8, 2001 |
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From Software Quality Control to Quality Assurance A two-stage approach to transforming quality control to quality assurance: Quality Assessment (Stage 1) provides objective quantitative evaluation of quality while identifying and fixing software defects early in the development cycle, before they get to the customer and even before testing; Quality Assurance (Stage 2) helps prevent defects from entering the code base by enforcing coding standards during, and by preventing new defects from occurring during times of change through accurate impact analysis. |
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E-Business Testing: Test Techniques and Tools This paper describes twenty techniques for testing E-Business applications. These techniques were introduced in the companion paper, "Risk-Based E-Business Testing, Part 1, Risks and Test Strategy." The techniques are described under five categories: Static Testing, Test Browsing, Functional Testing, Non-Functional Testing, and Large-Scale Integration Testing. A chapter on Post-Deployment Monitoring is appended. |
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Measurement Maturity at CMM Level 3 This slide presentation discusses CMM Level 2 and 3. It describes characteristics of a mature measurement program at Level 3 and discusses measurement requirements from an assessor's perspective. The presentation provides examples and offers ideas on good and bad practices/programs. Measurement requirements are embedded throughout the model. |
Beth Layman
February 5, 2001 |
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When Helping Doesn't Help The term "codependency" was coined to describe an unhealthy coping pattern--one that focuses much on compensating for another party's shortcomings or weaknesses. This week's column asks the question, "Are you involved in codependent relationships with your software developers and project managers?" If so, you may be causing long-term harm in your effort to "do the right thing" for the project at hand. |
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Project Post Mortem is Not the Time for Criticism Those who talk about software development process seldom forget to mention the importance of a project post mortem. All books on process management that I have read and all company Web sites that I have visited have something to read about project post mortems. And my concern here is, do we realize the importance just because everyone else is talking about it or are we committed to use it because the concept sounds relevant? And if we are committed, then how do we take the best out of it? |
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Strategies to Maximize the Value of Your Updates Updates are costly and disruptive. Plan to make certain that your updates are successful. |
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