Sourcing the right project management staff

Given the complexity of project management and the fact that it is not an exact science, it is quite understandable that sourcing the right candidate can be a challenge. FOXit, a project management specialist, independent software vendor and Microsoft-certified Gold...

What is SAFe all about?

The software development world is seeing a second wave of enterprise agility starting to happen. The first wave saw development teams become agile. The second wave is focused on the entire enterprise – marketing, development, IT operations, finance and so on. Agile...

Pick n Pay achieves project success with PPO

The Pick n Pay Group, one of Africa’s largest retailers of food, general merchandise and clothing, has seen a vast improvement in the quality of data within its project management team, providing enhanced project visibility for management and, ultimately,...

Reviewing the relevance of projects

The waterfall development cycle has been the de facto methodology behind many software development lifecycles for years, writes Ziaan Hattingh, MD of IndigoCube. Over time some companies have been able to make it work reasonably efficiently, others have moved to...

Agile software development aids adaptability

The software development and continuous delivery approach used by ThoughtWorks, the world’s leading agile development and user experience design company, offers an approach by means of which organisations can thrive on uncertainty rather than seeing it as an onerous...

Business agility, profitability and DevOps

DevOps – a combination of “development” and “operations” – is a relatively new approach to managing the application life cycle. It aims to overcome structural challenges in the typical application life cycle, improving the speed and efficiency at which...