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Despite signs of life in the economy, the realities of software development persist. Most companies and customers need their software yesterday with the most advanced features at the lowest possible cost. To accomplish these seemingly contradictory goals, developers seek to streamline production with fast, effective processes that can give the customer what he/she wants… Continue

Agile practices in software projects help you to reduce requirements risks and deliver real business value.

Every software project carries some risk, but many of these risks can be mitigated. That's true of problems related to product requirements – problems that a… Continue

To mature software engineering, we must learn from history, and to learn from history, we must define what we do when we develop software and how we do it. When we produce a process specification and define measures for the key process parameters, we are beginning to build the basis for reliably and consistently recording and learning from history. That is why the pr… Continue

Project managers need to be responsible for software security standards – whether they’re externally or internally imposed. Introducing best practices at the beginning of the project life cycle, rather than the end, works best.

Producing secure software applic… Continue

Whether you are a project manager planning for a smooth implementation of a plan or a project sponsor on whose decisions a project depends, you cannot escape from the fact that project estimation is essential to its success. In the first place, there are three basic requirements that a project must satisfy: schedule, budget, and quality. The need to work within these… Continue