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• How to get DevOps into compliance, and vice versa

  IT organizations that are serious about DevOps, especially with integrated release pipelines, need compliance and governance workflows that dovetail with the app delivery approach. Continue Reading

• How to plan and create a test automation framework

  To create an automated testing framework, establish plans for test creation, tools, reporting, logs and maintenance. Continue Reading

• How to make distributed Agile teams efficient and collaborative

  Agile teams don't always exist under one roof, but they should still be aligned in responsibilities and goals. Here's the best way to approach global Agile team management. Continue Reading

• Ease conflicts with software engineering project management

  Development teams try many ways to balance business priorities with software quality in a project -- and most of them don't work. Here's how to keep that relationship balanced. Continue Reading

• Enlist Jira for testing with these test management add-ons

  With the right add-ons, Jira users can turn the tracking product into a potent test management platform. Gauge your organization's Agile maturity, and then consider these options. Continue Reading

• Embrace these Agile sprint planning tenets

  Successful Scrum sprints aren't about precognition or guesswork. It all comes down to how you plan. Address these core considerations during the planning stage for a smooth sprint.Continue Reading

• Why human instinct causes mistakes in project management

  Project management isn't brain surgery, but it involves brain chemistry. A testing expert discusses how we instinctively value gains and losses and how it leads to bad decisions.Continue Reading

• Why I moved from programming to a software testing role

  Testers rejoice when they find flaws, even as project managers gnash their teeth. Matt Heusser explains how, in QA, he learned to stop worrying about deadlines and love the delay.Continue Reading

• Lower the risk of change in continuous testing

  Expert Matt Heusser explains how to improve mobile and web application continuous testing in seven steps. Learn how to identify goals and avoid failures with continuous flow.Continue Reading

• How to develop a UX workflow

  This approach to UX improves software design, whether your goal is to build a new product, modernize a legacy one or improve functionality and features.Continue Reading

• How to solve your TMI problem: Data science analytics to the rescue

  Too much information may not be a good thing. Enter data science analytics. Get a handle on your data and your development career with some expert advice.Continue Reading

• How can your enterprise support mobile email access?

  Granting mobile email access is easy. Here is a rundown of the options available.Continue Reading

• Tips for making software QA testing reports acceptable

  Why don't users seem to appreciate typical software QA testing status reports?Continue Reading

• Tracking bugs effectively in continuous development

  Tracking bugs in a continuous development environment can be challenging. An expert offers tips for smoothing the process.Continue Reading

• KillerIT evaluates application portfolios

  In this innovation spotlight, learn how KillerIT Application Portfolio helps organizations evaluate application portfolios using data-driven initiatives.Continue Reading

• Change control tools keep change control regulated

  Change control tools help to manage data and keep change controls in order.Continue Reading

• Does Agile use business requirements documents?

  How does managing requirements differ in an Agile environment versus a mixed-methodology environment? How do Agile project managers document business requirements?Continue Reading

• How to resolve team conflict

  Arguing team members can derail a project. Project managers can help resolve the issue by finding its root cause.Continue Reading

• How to deal with workplace conflict

  Personalities often clash when several people work together. When facing an issue, learn to appreciate team members for their contributions, not how they express themselves.Continue Reading

• When tracking defects, make efficiency the end goal

  Tracking defects can benefit the development team if done for the right reasons. Explore the reasons to track defects in this expert response.Continue Reading

• Use test charters to enhance test team efficiency

  Team charters and test charters both help streamline priorities and responsibilities for busy software testers.Continue Reading

• Mobile project manager fosters collaboration and helps autistic kids

  By managing her mobile development project, Marlena Smith helps clinicians treat autism in kids today and better understand the disorder tomorrow.Continue Reading

• How adding controls can actually make for fast software development

  Add controls to the business of delivering software, and teams will scream about delays. However, fast development is often the result.Continue Reading

• Security test researcher funded by US Department of Homeland Security

  The U.S. DHS is funding Dan Cornell's efforts to improve hybrid analysis of results of various different security testing tools.Continue Reading

• Application portfolio management: Treat software as a valuable asset

  Application portfolio management helps businesses track their important business apps, making them less intangible and their value more visible.Continue Reading

• Alternative project management styles are faster than multitasking

  Rather than rely on multitasking, project managers should focus each team's efforts on one project or iteration at a time.Continue Reading

• How to measure test progress: Every picture tells a story

  Seeing the big picture when it comes managing the progress of your software tests may require putting together all the little picture pieces.Continue Reading

• Agile development practices: Extending agility to contracts

  Outlining a variety of ideas for contracts, consultant Howard Deiner shows how Agile practices move beyond the development of code and into developing a collaborative contract.Continue Reading

• What are CIOs thinking? What we can learn from social media conversations

  A recent report from Logicalis revealed the top ten buzzwords used in social media by CIOs. Learn how the data from that report was gathered and what trends were found.Continue Reading

• Software quality: When defect tracking is not necessary

  In Quality metrics: Defect tracking throughout the software lifecycle, we explored the argument in favor of tracking defects throughout the lifecycle. In this second article in the two-part series, we look at the other side.Continue Reading

• Agile software development: Tips for writing testable user stories

  Testing pressures are always high on Agile projects. In this article we explore some of the ways adding clarity to stories can help make testing easier for all parties involved.Continue Reading

• Tools and techniques for tracking changes to software requirements

  In this tip, requirements expert Sue Burk explains different techniques and tools that can be used to track changes to the requirement itself as well as changes to the attributes of the requirement.Continue Reading

• Differences between Agile and conventional portfolio management

  In this tip, Kay Diller spells out ten differences between Agile portfolio management and conventional portfolio management.Continue Reading

• STAREAST: Agile testing and defect tracking

  Defect tracking systems (DTS's) are often used in application lifecycle management (ALM) to keep track of the bugs found during software development. In this tip, Agile expert Lisa Crispin talks about the pros and cons of using a DTS and ...Continue Reading

• Business requirements: Five steps to exceed business expectations

  Regardless of the methodology being used, it is imperative that the development team and the business collaborate throughout the software development lifecycle. In this tip by software expert Kay Diller, we look at ways to maintain a strong ...Continue Reading

• Transitioning to distributed Agile: A study from Pace University

  A study done at Pace University produced a report outlining an application development effort of five students in three countries. The development team used Scrum in a distributed fashion to develop a mobile application used by first graders in ...Continue Reading

• Test management: Measuring the performance of testing-- who tests the testers?

  By answering three questions, software test organizations can improve their effectiveness and the value of their services. In this tip with Software Quality Systems' director Ivan Ericsson, you'll learn the metrics needed to ensure an effective and ...Continue Reading

• The software experience report: Record what you learn

  Each software project provides an opportunity for learning. By documenting our experience in an experience report, we are able to reflect and share what we learned. In this tip from frequent SSQ contributor Chris McMahon, you'll learn the benefits ...Continue Reading

• The perfect storm: Multiple mishaps lead to disaster

  A series of mistakes, due to a series of software errors and lapses in judgment, result in a situation that could mean the difference between life and death for customers. Find out lessons that test expert Chris McMahon learned from experiencing a ...Continue Reading

• Effective bug reporting techniques

  If you've ever had a terrible bug come back "unable to reproduce" or "not worth fixing," you know the pain of writing bug reports. This tutorial covers the basics of effective reporting and provides a few advanced tricks to make the reproduction, ...Continue Reading

• Proper defect management increases the likelihood for better software quality

  When software is problematic and in need of defect reconciling which department is responsible for documenting and countering application defects? Expert John Scarpino explains software defect management chain of command in this tip.Continue Reading

• Software project manager perspective: The components of successful application development

  Software development, much like manufacturing is drastically changing. In order to stay on top, project managers need to accept and adapt to change. This chapter provides focus areas for PMs to make good use of such as, risks, cost, complexity, ...Continue Reading

• Managing software projects effectively: Key points project managers should know

  Software project management roles continue to change is tool and process improvements become available. In this chapter learn how to effectively manage your team. Learn where experts say key focus areas lie in this chapter excerpt.Continue Reading

• Tips for software testers: Getting along with developers

  End software project slowdowns caused by fighting between software testers and developers with these four tips. Learn how to report application bugs diplomatically and accurately with veteran tester David Christiansen's guidelines.Continue Reading

• Using metrics to monitor software projects

  Metrics enable a project manager to achieve what is expected -– completing projects on time and on budget -– and provide an opportunity to impress management and promote the project team's talents. Lawrence Oliva, PMP, lists six metrics ...Continue Reading

• Estimating actual project progress

  Man-months are a poor gauge of progress, and Gantt charts don't always tell the whole story. Expert Bas de Baar proposes a different method for visualizing project progress.Continue Reading