Palabora Copper rolls out PPO
Palabora Copper has implemented Project Portfolio Office (PPO), an online project portfolio management (PPM) and collaboration application, in order to enhance its improvement project management and tracking functions.Situated in the Ba-Phalaborwa area of Limpopo in...
Agile experts at Wits Fak’ugesi Festival
Software and technology projects challenge most organisations’ from a scoping, cost and quality perspective. In its first Fak’ugesi Digital Africa Festival event in August 2014, Wits University and the Joburg Centre for Software Engineering (JCSE) bring two project...
Agile testers must develop new mind-set
Testers have a vital role to play in the agile world, but in order to do so, they need to develop a distinct mind-set. Speaking at a workshop hosted by IndigoCube, Janet Gregory, a leading international expert in agile testing, outlined the characteristics of an agile...
DVT to host Lean conference in October
Some of the world’s foremost Lean software development practitioners will converge in South Africa in October when software and services specialist DVT hosts one of the largest local events of its kind. Presented by the DVT Academy, the Continuously Lean Conference...
DVT launches mobile app testing hub in CT
Software and services specialist company DVT has opened the doors on its new, purpose-built mobile application testing hub in Cape Town.
Certified enterprise agile training from DVT
Software and services specialist DVT is offering a unique training course this month, specifically aimed at program and project managers that want to take their agile implementation skills to the enterprise. The Leading SAFe training course covers the fundamentals of...
TPG Africa to offer PPM training
Project and portfolio management specialist The Project Group (TPG) Africa is offering public project and portfolio management (PPM) training based on Microsoft technologies for people who want to advance their skills in this field of specialisation. The training...
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...
Arte Meccanica implements new IT system
Arte Meccanica has appointed partners, Rifle-Shot Performance Holdings and Isah, to assist them with production and efficient labour planning, streamlining processes and creating accurate job costings. Arte Meccanica produces what is known as the most beautifully...
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 Dwolatzky...
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...
Agile testing specialist to visit SA
Janet Gregory, co-author with Lisa Crispin of Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams, will be in Johannesburg from 23 June 2014. Hot on the heels of its announcement of an exclusive partnership with Agile testing specialist DragonFire,...