Agile adoption set to grow in 2015
2015 may be the year the pendulum swings – towards more rapid adoption, or a large agile failure. Sufficient Agile skills, improved market understanding of Agile and changes to company philosophy to align with agile values will be the weighing factors, according to niche consulting and technology company, BSG. Creating continuous business value accelerates time to market, increases productivity and allows IT and business to better align so that changing priorities can be better managed. The true challenge, however, is to create more market understanding on what an Agile approach is and, what it takes to succeed.
RS enhances DesignSpark PCB software
RS Components (RS), the trading brand of Electrocomponents, has unveiled the latest release of DesignSpark PCB, the company's award-winning rapid prototyping software for electronics. Supporting engineers in the design phase, DesignSpark PCB Version 7.0 adds three of...
Atos uses CA to embrace app economy
Atos has chosen CA Technologies to assist them to enable customers to fully embrace the opportunities presented by the application economy. This will be achieved with the launch of a new and innovative Service Virtualisation and Agile Testing Centre of Excellence...
Forrester names OutSystems as leader
OutSystems, the enterprise Rapid Application Delivery (RAD) platform provider, has been positioned as a leader in The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Public Cloud Platforms. OutSystems received maximum scores in seven of the categories for rapid developers, which evaluated...
Wipro named leader by Gartner
Wipro has announced that it has been positioned as a "Leader" in the first ever published Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Testing 2014, authored by Susanne Matson and Patrick J. Sullivan and published on 25 November 2014.Gartner defines "Application testing...
Foster agility and reap the benefits
The Agile methodology of software development has had a lot of press in recent years, and your staff may even have had Agility training, but truly becoming an Agile company requires a shift in mind-set across the board and may require the objectivity of an outside...
Keep pace with change
There is a growing debate as to whether Rapid Application Delivery (RAD) solutions can deliver custom mobile and web apps more efficiently than traditional methods. Analyst firm Ovum recently published an 'On the Radar' report as to how much the success of a RAD...
Can a business be too agile?
Agile development has been embraced by businesses around the world. It improves speed to market by cutting down on the development cycle. If done properly, it improves the quality of output and mitigates risks. But risk increases when agile methodologies are not...
Bringing women back to programming
In the 1960s, computer programming was still viewed as a lucrative career choice for many young women. Cosmopolitan magazine at the time even ran an article entitled The Computer Girls, which depicted the field as a better opportunity for women than many other...
Innovative SAP Hana option from Barnstone
SAP Hana offers businesses the ability to turn vast volumes of data into insight extremely rapidly, thus allowing them to operate more smartly in realtime. A real competitive advantage in today’s fast-moving markets. However, in today’s tough economic climate,...
IndigoCube to offer Agile software courses
IndigoCube has entered into a partnership with Software Education, a leading provider of training across the entire software development life cycle. In terms of the agreement, IndigoCube will be accredited to offer the full range of Software Education’s agile courses....
Innovation disrupts the status quo
One of the major transformational forces that is and will continue to be responsible for shifting the tectonic plates of the business world is technological progression, says Angela Gahagan-Thomson, EPG Lead at Microsoft South Africa. Technologies such as big data and...