As more and more project teams adopt agile software development methods, issues arise with traditional approaches to IT governance. Such approaches—which include Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology (COBIT) and the Project Management Institute (PMI) Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM-3)—are often too heavy in practice for development shops seeking to be more agile or lean. A lean approach to development governance weaves the philosophies of lean and agile software development into traditional IT governance to form a lightweight, collaboration-based framework that reflects the realities of modern IT organizations.

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IT organizations continue to struggle with managing the flow of change into production.  The high rate of change requests impacts many teams that use manual processes, various tools and multiple processes.  A process-centric approach can help.  Learn more.

Forrester Research, Inc. has assessed the state of the Agile development management (ADM) tools market, reviewing ALM vendors and Agile project management tools against 152 criteria. MKS achieved the highest scores from Forrester in the ‘Process Configuration’, ‘Security’ and ‘Running a Project’ subcategories of the analysis and received the second highest score for its current offering.

The adoption of Agile development practices has increased as software developers strive to keep pace with customer and market demands. To fully realize the benefits of Agile, a repeatable process for creating bug-free code is critical. This paper examines how source code analysis can enhance the Agile development process and empower Agile teams.

Software builds are one of the most time-consuming, resource-intensive and expensive phases of embedded system development. The very attributes of software that make it naturally appealing for embedded applications—trivially duplicated, easily modified, and readily composed from small parts into large products—have contributed to exponential increase in size, complexity, and number of targets. This explosive growth has caused build times to jump correspondingly, decelerating the entire software production cycle. Without the ability to quickly rebuild the product, even the smallest changes force developers and testers to waste valuable time waiting. In many organizations, it is clear that slow software builds are the primary obstacle to shipping more product of better quality on time.