| IT Should Forget Development, Focus on Requirements and Release Management |
| Despite all the changes to application lifecycle management (ALM), IT organizations are doing just fine when it comes to core development processes. It is the "bookend" processes of requirements management and release management that need help.
05/17/2012
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| Kicking Waterfall Project Management Habits Requires Agility |
| Things that won't die are great for the movies, but bad ideas that won't go away can really hurt cloud projects. Unfortunately, management likes classic, counterproductive waterfall project management and binary go-live deployments for cloud projects.
05/10/2012
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| Using Pair Programming Practices in Code Inspections |
| If the dynamics of code inspections have changed in the past three decades, how should we inspect now? Matt Heusser suggests that pair programming principles could provide some, but not all, of the answers.
05/08/2012
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| How to Address Cloud Application Lifecycle Challenges |
| Taking an agile approach to the application lifecycle in a hybrid cloud environment means moving beyond the one-and-done method of V2C conversions and embracing DevOps. Getting development and operations to collaborate means linking resource, configuration, and cloud management.
05/07/2012
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| Formula One Racing Team Speeds to Agile Development |
| Lotus F1's IT team made a technology pit stop and changed from a traditional application development strategy to an agile approach. Why shift gears? The pit crew and car designer wanted better data faster -- and IT wasn't about to pass on the opportunity.
05/06/2012
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| How to Build an Always-On, Always-Available Enterprise |
| There is never a good time for downtime, even planned downtime. As companies become more global, with employees, customers, partners, and suppliers spread across every time zone, it becomes increasingly difficult to schedule times when no one is affected. There is no "easy button" when it comes to running always-on, always-available services. Here are three steps to get you on the path to building and running an always-on, always-available enterprise.
05/01/2012
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| How IT Pros Can Avoid Bid-to-Win Horror Shows |
| Zombies and vampires are great for the movies, but life-sucking ideas that won't go away are bad for IT projects. Problem is, clients really encourage bid to win behaviors -- even in cloud projects where they are counterproductive.
05/01/2012
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| IT Outsourcing Deals Slow From Hangover Effect |
| Analysis of IT and business process outsourcing transactions in the first quarter reveals a sharp decrease in number and value of contracts signed. As deals get smaller and shorter, contract restructuring and expirations now dominate the IT service provider landscape.
04/19/2012
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| Are Zombies Sucking the Life Out of Your Data Center? |
| If your organization operates its own servers and switches, it's likely that a percentage of them are zombies--steadily gobbling up resources but doing no work. Cleaning up a zombie server infestation takes good management and stringent documentation.
04/19/2012
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| How to Avoid the Perils of Virtualization and Cloud Stall |
| Virtualization and cloud computing offer the promise of cost savings, efficiency and flexibility, but organizations must plan their transitions carefully or risk finding themselves stuck with a bundle of sunk costs and no path forward.
04/09/2012
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| 13 Tips for Better Joomla CMS Security |
| With the surging popularity of Joomla, it's no surprise hackers are drawn to it as well. Don't panic, however. There are a number of things you can do to strengthen your security and turn your Joomla website into a fortress. Read along as we show you how to guard against the most common exploits and hacks that this open source CMS faces.
04/08/2012
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| U.S. CIO Pitches Service-Driven Federal IT |
| Facing ongoing budget pressure, federal CIOs are being prodded to do more with less as they seek to improve services, consolidate data centers and eliminate overlapping or outdated programs. In a keynote address at the FOSE government IT conference, U.S. CIO Steven VanRoekel said that federal CIOs must reassess their approach to new technology deployments.
04/02/2012
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| IT Must Change Security Strategies to Keep Up With Cybercriminals |
| Businesses may have scaled back their security and risk management investments during the economic downturn, but cybercriminals continued to invest. In the coming years, criminal organizations will grow even more sophisticated. To be prepared for what's coming, organizations must adjust their approach to security now.
04/01/2012
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| Do Insecure Open Source Components Threaten Your Apps? |
| Open Source components are a boon to developers, allowing them to efficiently write code without reinventing the wheel. But since open source lacks the notification infrastructure of commercial software, organizations must maintain a running inventory of open source components and their dependencies in production applications or risk deploying apps with known vulnerabilities.
03/29/2012
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| IT Outsourcing System Is Broken, How Can Service Providers Fix It? |
| Andrew Wasser, a veteran CIO and the associate dean of the Heinz College's School of Information Systems and Management at Carnegie Mellon University, tells CIO.com how outsourcing providers can develop cultures of innovation and other challenges and trends and in the industry.
03/28/2012
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