May 30, 2014
The struggle to increase the number of graduating software engineers has been an on-going challenge throughout the last two decades. The Jo’burg Centre for Software Engineering (JCSE) director and head of Software Engineering at Wits University, Prof Barry...
May 27, 2014
Since the Agile Manifesto was written in the US in 2001, Agile software development methodology has become a mainstay of innovative, high-energy developers the world over. Agile methodology refers to a development process focused on iterative changes and updates, and...
May 20, 2014
In organisations that run projects in significant numbers and value, it is generally accepted that implementing a project and portfolio management (PPM) system, and related standardised processes, would be beneficial. However, it is impossible to rationally justify...
Apr 30, 2014
DevOps has in principle been around for decades. In the early 1980s DevOps was a rudimentary end-to-end process, starting with punching holes into cards (representations of code and data), quality assuring their correctness, followed by physically transporting the...
Apr 25, 2014
When it comes to project management (PM), a major challenge to IT executives and their teams lies in having to maintain focus on the end deliverable and not be side-tracked by small issues as they arise. According to the company, successful projects are dependent on a...
Apr 23, 2014
More than ever before in history, business needs people who can program. Software is becoming a large part of ordinary life, so much so that entire industries and job descriptions are being supplanted by code. Or as a Netscape founder put it, “software is eating...
