DVT promotes disciplined approach to agile
The many benefits of the disciplined agile delivery (DAD) approach were outlined at the recent Agile Africa 2013 Conference by software development company DVT’s newly appointed principal agile consultant and coach, Riaan du Toit, whose talk was entitled Enterprise...
Gartner names MicroStrategy a challenger
MicroStrategy Incorporated, a leading worldwide provider of enterprise software platforms, has announced that it has debuted in the “Challengers” quadrant in Gartner’s 2013 “Magic Quadrant for Mobile Application Development Platforms” (MADP) report. “We are extremely...
Software development and smart computing
Forrester Research’s Global Tech Market Outlook 2013-2014 points out that software as a service (SaaS) and data-driven smart apps will be the major growth engines for the global software market. The report forecasts that the SaaS market will increase in 2013 by 25% to...
HP speeds delivery of application services
HP has announced the next generation of its data centre automation, orchestration and cloud management software, which is designed to enable enterprise IT to rapidly deliver services on a massive scale - on premises or via the cloud - to meet changing enterprise...
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, allowing for...
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 applications...
Business, IT face disconnect in SA
Each year, South African small and medium businesses lose significant amounts of money because most business leaders have little or no understanding of how IT contributes to their companies’ performance. Chris Welham, executive director of Space Age Technologies – an...
The case for project management software
A common problem within businesses is that, while there is an acute awareness of the need to implement project office software, it is not easy to provide the necessary justification for approval, says Guy Jelley, CEO, Project Portfolio Office (PPO). Even then, when...
SOA is a strategic enabler
Technology has evolved to a point where, for the first time it’s the business principles and the needs of an organisation that can drive the way in which technology can execute on those needs. It is through service-oriented architecture (SOA) that this relationship...
Choosing the right project management tools
Regardless of how organised your project team might be, identifying project management software for your business is important for the smooth-running of projects, specifically when they occur in parallel. Daniel Marcus, director of project management and CRM tool...