Bill Dickenson, Independent Consultant, Strategy On The Web In most commercial environments the developers are distributed — rarely occupying the same physical site and often on very different hours. Faced with this reality, AGILE struggles. In the 12 principles from the “Agile Manifesto” is the principle that “The most efficient... Read more →

Bill Dickenson, Independent Consultant, Strategy On The Web Expectation Management As DevOps becomes increasingly mainstream, it is essential that expectations are met for each group involved in the process. Part 1 of this blog focused on what operations should expect from the developers in DevOps while this part (Part 2)...... Read more →

Bill Dickenson, Independent Consultant, Strategy On The Web Expectation Management DevOps brings both the developers and operations processes into alignment. This blog focuses on what operations should expect from the developers while my next blog will focus on what developers should expect from Operations. Managing both sides is essential to...... Read more →

Bill Dickenson, Independent Consultant, Strategy On The Web Dr. Richard Soley, the Chariman and CEO of OMG, published a paper for CISQ titled, How to Deliver Resilient, Secure, Efficient, and Easily Changed IT Systems in Line with CISQ Recommendations, that outlines the software quality standard for IT business applications. The..... Read more →

Bill Dickenson, Independent Consultant, Strategy On The Web Dr. Richard Soley, the Chariman and CEO of OMG, published a paper for CISQ titled, How to Deliver Resilient, Secure, Efficient, and Easily Changed IT Systems in Line with CISQ Recommendations, that outlines the software quality standard for IT business applications. He..... Read more →

Tracie Berardi, Program Manager, Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ) Rob Marvin published an article in the January issue of SD Times that details the work of the Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ). Rob interviewed Dr. Richard Soley, CEO of the Object Management Group (OMG) and Dr. Bill Curtis,...... Read more →

By Tracie Berardi, Program Manager, Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ) In January 2013 CISQ published a specification for Automated Function Points (AFP) that enables the automated sizing of software by function points. The spec was developed by an international team led by David Herron of the David Consulting Group... Read more →