Software Development Methodologies White Papers

WHITE PAPER: To stay ahead of the competition, companies need to react quickly to adapt to changing customer demands. Discover how you can adapt quickly, improve product quality, and speed time to market by applying agile principles to the development of interconnected products.

Posted: 11 Nov 2013 | Published: 31 Oct 2012

WHITE PAPER: View this resource for an interview with Hayden Lindsey, vice president and Distinguished Engineer of IBM Rational Software. Find out what this DevOps expert has to say about implementing an enterprise-wide DevOps initiative and how DevOps is accelerating the delivery of mobile and cloud solutions across distributed and mainframe platforms.

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 | Published: 30 Jun 2013

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper takes a look at service virtualization, and how it can speed application development by replicating unavailable components, and improve quality control with multiple scenario testing.

Posted: 07 Nov 2013 | Published: 03 Dec 2012

WHITE PAPER: This case study looks at how Virgin Media developed a set of transparent, efficient, and unified software testing tools to speed development, and increase quality.

Posted: 07 Nov 2013 | Published: 03 Sep 2012

WHITE PAPER: Access this resource for a Q and A with Hayden Lindsey, vice president and Distinguished Engineer of IBM Rational Software, on the subject of enterprise-wide DevOps.

Posted: 05 Nov 2013 | Published: 31 May 2013

WHITE PAPER: In this resource, explore the bottlenecks that slow down software delivery and learn how you can overcome them by creating better collaboration through DevOps. Get an in-depth look at how to achieve the continuous release and deployment adoption path to DevOps, with specific examples of each step in the process.

Posted: 09 Oct 2013 | Published: 31 May 2013

WHITE PAPER: Open source options are taking the pain out of business process management (BPM), and putting the value of BPM within reach of more companies and projects. But is open source BPM the right move for you? Read on now to find out.

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 | Published: 13 Aug 2013

WHITE PAPER: In this resource, discover how a software development process known as behavior-driven development, combined with a tool that integrates business rules management, business process management (BPM), and complex event processing (CEP), enables you to speed up and improve the application delivery lifecycle.

Posted: 08 Aug 2013 | Published: 30 Jun 2013

WHITE PAPER: This Forrester Total Economic Impact™ report unveils how one solution provides LAN-speed collaboration between distributed teams, giving them the feeling that they're all working in the same room. View now to uncover how this solution helped one global software engineering company enjoy a 357% ROI with a payback period of less than two months.

Posted: 01 Aug 2013 | Published: 31 Jul 2013

WHITE PAPER: Few organizations have succeeded in moving beyond static, up-front development timelines to the more dynamic process of working with agile teams. In this case study, discover how Getty Images managed to become one of the few agile champions after struggling with the transition to lean and agile development.

Posted: 26 Jun 2013 | Published: 31 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: Check out this brief guide to explore why iteration planning is important to agile development, who will play a role in the process, and what you need to begin. In addition, you'll discover five essential steps to planning, an iteration planning agenda, and much more!

Posted: 29 May 2013 | Published: 29 May 2013

WHITE PAPER: Agile development might seem like a foreign language if you're new to the game - with a new set of roles and terminology, it's not surprising that you might be a little confused. In this quick, helpful guide, learn about one of the key concepts in agile methodology - release planning. Discover what it is, who does it, and why it's important.

Posted: 28 May 2013 | Published: 28 May 2013

WHITE PAPER: In this data sheet, explore business-critical information on service virtualization and how it allows your development team to move more quickly without sacrificing quality or testing. Read on to learn more about service virtualization platforms and your company.

Posted: 17 May 2013 | Published: 31 Dec 2012

WHITE PAPER: In this expert white paper, discover how DevOps and agile overlap, intersect, communicate, and inform one another. Explore ways to improve DevOps with agile techniques, and boost agile development with lessons learned from DevOps.

Posted: 18 Apr 2013 | Published: 18 Apr 2013

WHITE PAPER: With the news of Pacbase's 2015 retirement, many organizations must find an alternative application strategy. This resource outlines your options in the post-Pacbase world, and offers advice and recommendations for realizing continued application success.

Posted: 18 Apr 2013 | Published: 31 Oct 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this exclusive paper to learn how companies are improving software development by establishing requirements at the forefront of the project. Discover why changing your development approach will help you drive a greater ROI as well as prevent errors and issues down the road.

Posted: 17 Sep 2012 | Published: 17 Sep 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to find time-saving techniques designed to make agile testing easier and more productive.

Posted: 27 Aug 2012 | Published: 27 Aug 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this brief paper to learn about five features that your infrastructure must have in order to be agile enough to respond to change and easily adapt to accommodate new development technologies including foresight, heritage, portability, fitness-for-purpose, and readability.

Posted: 20 Aug 2012 | Published: 20 Aug 2012

WHITE PAPER: Discover proven tips for successfully leveraging transactional emails to increase customer engagement and market your applications in this essential resource. Find out how you can leverage a cloud-based email platform to ensure reliable delivery and gain real-time analytics.

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 | Published: 20 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: Exercising Java code is a painstaking yet critical process for developers. This white paper explains how you can free up time by implementing a testing tool designed to detect coding errors as you write Java classes, and even after they have been reviewed.

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 | Published: 19 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper gives an overview of the challenges release management presents, three tips for improving your software release strategies, and insight on how effective release management is poised to become a driver of competitive advantage.

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 | Published: 03 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: Today's agile development processes and distributed environments have only increased the complexity of tracking software project requirements. Read this white paper to understand why requirements are slipping through the cracks and discover tools and best practices that can help you create traceability across your modern development organization.

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 | Published: 31 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Familiar with the benefits of agile on a small scale, CIOs are increasingly looking to apply agile methods to broader projects. This white paper discusses the challenges and barriers large enterprises are facing and presents best practices for scaling agile within complex organizations.

Posted: 09 Mar 2012 | Published: 09 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores the capabilities and benefits that the next phase of application lifecycle management (ALM) must deliver in order to overcome the challenges of application delivery.

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 | Published: 18 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper presents eighteen best practices for leaner, more agile software development project governance.

Posted: 23 Nov 2011 | Published: 22 Nov 2011