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,...
DVT launches Agile@DVT service in CT
Software development company DVT has expanded its agile training and consulting services with the launch of its Agile@DVT service in the Cape Town market. Managed by Jenny Bellairs, regional director of DVT’s Project management and Agile Solutions, Agile@DVT is a...
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...
BCX expands PPO use for greater insight
The Business Connexion Application Services (BCX-AS) department of Business Connexion (BCX), has seen a number of benefits since its rollout of Project Portfolio Office (PPO), an online project portfolio management (PPM) and collaboration application, including the...
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...