Software Project Management Reports

RESOURCE CENTER: This project and portfolio management e-kit contains a collection of webcasts, white papers, and trials providing useful information about software and systems investments, strategic planning, and mitigating risk in the software delivery cycle.

Posted: 11 May 2010 | Published: 11 May 2010

VIDEO: Watch this video to learn how IBM Rational can help you achieve your business objectives within your budget. Topics covered include 1)Increasing Security on the Web, 2)Optimizing Software Quality Process, and 3)Improving Collaboration.

Posted: 22 Mar 2010 | Premiered: 22 Mar 2010

RESOURCE CENTER: Check out this e-kit, which offers techniques and strategies for smart software delivery through webcasts, demos and other informative materials.

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 | Published: 19 Mar 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines the benefits of quality management automation, the progression of its adoption and future opportunities for expanding it.

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 | Published: 25 Jan 2010

TRIAL SOFTWARE: CollabNet TeamForge helps distributed teams by centralizing assets and tools, creating transparency and enabling collaboration.

Posted: 04 Jan 2010 | Premiered: 04 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explains the characteristics of a good requirement and presents ten steps to better requirements management.

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 | Published: 01 Oct 2008

TECHNICAL ARTICLE: The version 1.0 release of the Intel® Media Software Development Kit (SDK) equips developers with a standard application programming interface (API) for creating video solutions that target consumer and professional uses. Read this article to learn more about this product as well as the benefits for developers.

Posted: 10 Nov 2009 | Published: 03 Aug 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this presentation transcript, learn Agile practices that have worked well, failure modes of Agile practices that have failed to live up to the hype, and how to choose the right Agile development for your organization.

Posted: 22 Oct 2009 | Published: 22 Oct 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This is a transcript of a presentation by Brian Turner, Chief Service Delivery Officer at Point consulting firm. He discusses how to keep governance relevant and effective in today’s tough times, what factors drive effective governance structures and what strategies make those governance structures in your organization more effective.

Posted: 15 Sep 2009 | Published: 15 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper presents a set of agile meeting and facilitation checklists that offer an easy framework to help guide software development teams through the various agile cycles. Read on to learn about the Agile Development Rhythms and start using the checklists presented herein to help get through the various agile cycles.

Posted: 24 Jul 2009 | Published: 24 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, we'll outline the many benefits of an integrated approach to requirements and quality management, as well as offer best practices for effective requirements-driven testing.

Posted: 22 Jun 2009 | Published: 22 Jun 2009

TECHNICAL ARTICLE: Only about one-third of all projects are complete successes. Download this paper to take a look at the early warning signs in an IT project and what you can do to make the project a success.

Posted: 18 Jun 2009 | Published: 18 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper will explore the impact agile development methodologies are having on the Project Management community, what new skills are required, and what the Project Manager can do to ease the transition.

Posted: 08 Jun 2009 | Published: 08 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper considers the changing focus of the requirements space and how requirements definition differs from requirements management. A business analyst's struggles with defining requirements using common office software and tools are related. Finally, a requirements definition solution is introduced and discussed.

Posted: 26 May 2009 | Published: 26 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: Requirements definition and management is an activity that has the potential to deliver a high, fast ROI. This white paper explains the characteristics of a good requirement and presents ten steps to better requirements management. Read on to learn how better requirements translate into easier, higher quality projects.

Posted: 02 Apr 2009 | Published: 01 Oct 2008

WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines the challenges that impede teams as they try to collect, analyze, and evaluate ideas to define the best solution requirements. The paper also provides information on the four critical areas to defining great requirements and how IBM Rational® solutions help teams address these areas.

Posted: 16 Mar 2009 | Published: 13 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper introduces coverage analysis as an important direction in the management of software testing. Specifically, this paper covers test assessment and improvement using McCabe IQ coverage analysis in the areas of functional testing, incremental testing, and unit level testing.

Posted: 13 Mar 2009 | Published: 13 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper provides answers to basic questions relating to the management of outsourced development and maintenance. What is the metrics approach to managing sub-contractors? What is the quality of the code expected to be that has been developed by the sub-contractor? Read on for the answers to these and other important considerations.

Posted: 13 Mar 2009 | Published: 13 Mar 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In today's challenging economic climate, the consequences of releasing software prematurely can be severe. Read this presentation transcript and learn how you can transform your next software release into a more managed and predictable business process, increasing the likelihood of your success.

Posted: 12 Mar 2009 | Published: 12 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explains a structured way to manage requirements and how risk-based requirements and quality management are inseparable from the larger process of managing the planning, test and release of a software system.

Posted: 29 Dec 2008 | Published: 23 Dec 2008

SOFTWARE LISTING: Overview: Actuate OnPerformance provides all the benefits of the world?s leading Performance Management application without the IT headache. For as little as $60 per user, per month, Actuate OnPerformance eliminates the resource requirements associated

Posted: 08 Feb 2008 | Published: 08 Feb 2008

WHITE PAPER: Can you list all the issues your software team is working on? Can you sort them by severity, priority, features affected, and other criteria? Can you show the histories of all related actions? This article details how Elementool Bug Tracking can help.

Posted: 28 Jan 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2008

WHITE PAPER: This expert e-Guide details the current state of the requirements development process, exploring how to detect requirements errors in the critical specification and validation steps.

Posted: 04 Oct 2007 | Published: 04 Oct 2007

TRIAL SOFTWARE: This IT download provides a project management tool known as Atlassian JIRA which is designed to improve the functionality and flexibility of legacy systems.

Posted: 27 Sep 2007 | Premiered: 26 Sep 2007

WHITE PAPER: A formal Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and change management infrastructure significantly increases the chances of project success for geographically distributed software development teams. This whitepaper explains why.

Posted: 16 Aug 2007 | Published: 01 Aug 2007