A working party composed of representatives from the ICT industry has cautioned that mandating software quality accreditation can be detrimental to small to medium companies and is pushing instead for ...

Because of challenges often experienced when deploying software, many firms have embarked on software process improvement (SPI) initiatives. Critical to the success of these initiatives is the ...

Process improvement involves the business practice of identifying, analyzing and improving existing business processes to optimize performance, meet best practice standards or simply improve quality ...

ZDNET's key takeaways Pressure grows for software better aligned with business.Agile techniques have been stagnant for a decade.AI may speed up Agile team output. Agile has always had the best ...

Lately, the term "continuous" has popped to the top of vendors' and pundits' lists as the software architecture we all should and want to have. The problem is that many assume "continuous" means rapid ...

GITEX 2006 witnesses the launch of a new set of services presented by the Software Engineering Competence Center (SECC) affiliated to the Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA), ...

Electronics and software development are a key feature — in terms of cost and value — for automotive manufacturers and suppliers. With complexity and challenges in quality, cost and time to market, ...

Narayan Ramasubbu, Sunil Mithas, M. S. Krishnan and Chris F. Kemerer In this paper we develop a learning-mediated model of offshore software project productivity and quality to examine whether widely ...