Managing the application environment

Mobility is changing the way we work, the way we live and the way we play. The introduction of the smartphone in 2007 radically altered consumers’ expectations of what could be accomplished while on the go. Hundreds of millions of smartphones have been sold since...

Where are tomorrow’s software engineers?

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...

The business case for Agile

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...

Getting ROI from a PPM system

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...

DevOps is the buzzword of the moment

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...

Project management is a balancing act

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...