Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Software-Management: Beherrschung des Lifecycles
Das Buch beschreibt den gesamten Software-Lifecycle und den für dessen erfolgreiche Beherrschung geeigneten Methodenmix. Dazu werden unterschiedliche Vorgehensmodelle gegenübergestellt und erläutert, welches Modell für welchen Projekttyp passt. Risikomanagement mit UML (Unified Modeling Language), iterative Testmethoden zur Qualitätssicherung und Konfigurationsmanagement bilden weitere Schwerpunkte des Buches. Besonders für Projektmanager, Softwareentwickler und Softwareingenieure stellt es durch seinen hohen Praxisbezug ein Werkzeug zur Steigerung der Qualität von Software und zur Beschleunigung des Entwicklungsprozesses und damit der Sicherung des Projekterfolgs dar. Abgerundet wird das Werk mit der Vorstellung einer vollständigen und hochintegrierten Werkzeugumgebung, die alle beschriebenen Phasen des Software-Lebenszyklus unterstützt.
Software Management,
We are an established industry leader, having installed our Destination 3000(tm) solutions in organizations of all sizes and operating budgets in both the United States and Canada. SMI is proud to have worked with over 100 organizations in the hospitality and tourism industry.
Our solutions are designed specifically for Convention and Visitors Bureaus, Chambers of Commerce, Event Facilities and Destination Management Companies. Our technology is proven, our leadership position has been established, and our customers are happy. SMI looks forward to the next 25 years of serving our destination industry customers.
Our solutions are designed specifically for Convention and Visitors Bureaus, Chambers of Commerce, Event Facilities and Destination Management Companies. Our technology is proven, our leadership position has been established, and our customers are happy. SMI looks forward to the next 25 years of serving our destination industry customers.
Software Management Suite 2007
Software Management Suite is an extensive SAM solution. The solution includes a discovery tool, an inventory tool, a procurement tool and an optional metering tool. License experts and organizations are using Software Management Suite for SAM projects for years. The approach is to keep track of software- and license-Assets.
For an efficient planning of investment decisions all organizations need to know which assets are in use especially which software is installed. Frequent enterprise wide scanning of computers and servers is the basis for intelligent budgeting, optimized licensing and efficient investments.
Software Management Suite is made for this approach.
For an efficient planning of investment decisions all organizations need to know which assets are in use especially which software is installed. Frequent enterprise wide scanning of computers and servers is the basis for intelligent budgeting, optimized licensing and efficient investments.
Software Management Suite is made for this approach.
Software Managemebt Solution
Software Management Solutions (SMS) is your comprehensive partner in software development excellence.
SMS is committed to being the number one choice for organizations looking to improve their software development practices. SMS consultants have worked with Fortune 500 companies to address all aspects of their software development improvement needs including increasing awareness and buy-in within the organization, conducting assessments of current practices, creating a roadmap and action plan for improvement, training their employees on best-practices, and assisting in the development and implementation of new methods and procedures to achieve higher levels of software maturity and increase the organizations’ return-on-investment.
Whether it's Consulting, Training, or Staffing - We are your complete software management support team.
SMS is committed to being the number one choice for organizations looking to improve their software development practices. SMS consultants have worked with Fortune 500 companies to address all aspects of their software development improvement needs including increasing awareness and buy-in within the organization, conducting assessments of current practices, creating a roadmap and action plan for improvement, training their employees on best-practices, and assisting in the development and implementation of new methods and procedures to achieve higher levels of software maturity and increase the organizations’ return-on-investment.
Whether it's Consulting, Training, or Staffing - We are your complete software management support team.
Fog Creek Software Management Training Program
Here's how I learned to run the night shift at the Oranim bakery when I was a teenager.
First, you do an awful lot of cleaning. A few months of cleaning dough off of machines gives you a really good understanding of what the machines are and how they work and what parts matter.
Then you run the dough mixers for a few months until you get really good at that. Then you learn to make rolls. Then they let you run the computers that control the nightly bread production. If you're lucky, the computer will break down once or twice, and you can learn how to do it manually. That's really cool.
Finally, when you're really really good, they let you hang around with Yussef on the ovens. Yussef was about 100 years old and so good at running the ovens it was scary. When Gabbi tried to show me how to solve the problem of bread sticking to the conveyer belts on the way out of the oven, he ran back and forth like a lunatic for ten minutes, turning knobs, pulling levers, redirecting heat, and burning a few hundred loaves while he struggled to get things under control. But Yussef, facing the same problem, turned one tiny knob on a seemingly-unrelated chimney about one degree to the right. It made no sense, he couldn't explain why it worked, but it did: it solved the problem instantly and suddenly perfect loaves started popping out. It took me another couple of years to really understand the complex relationships between heat and humidity inside an 80 foot tunnel oven, but it would have taken ten more years before I could solve problems as well as Yussef did.
After a year or so doing every job in the bakery, you have credibility with the crew you're leading because they all know you could do their job. You have a complete, holistic understanding of the bakery in a way that no individual does. You've had a chance to watch good managers and bad, you've experienced a lot of the things that can go wrong and seen how to fix them (and how not to fix them), and you can be trusted to drive a fifty million dollar factory that churns out hundreds of thousands of loaves every night.
So they put you in charge of the night shift.
Although Yussef will probably pretty much ignore you no matter how much you think you know.
I told you that so I can tell you this:
We're planning to hire a new kind of employee at Fog Creek.
Until now, most of our hires have been programmers. That's a start, but we need to start hiring the next generation of management too.
First, you do an awful lot of cleaning. A few months of cleaning dough off of machines gives you a really good understanding of what the machines are and how they work and what parts matter.
Then you run the dough mixers for a few months until you get really good at that. Then you learn to make rolls. Then they let you run the computers that control the nightly bread production. If you're lucky, the computer will break down once or twice, and you can learn how to do it manually. That's really cool.
Finally, when you're really really good, they let you hang around with Yussef on the ovens. Yussef was about 100 years old and so good at running the ovens it was scary. When Gabbi tried to show me how to solve the problem of bread sticking to the conveyer belts on the way out of the oven, he ran back and forth like a lunatic for ten minutes, turning knobs, pulling levers, redirecting heat, and burning a few hundred loaves while he struggled to get things under control. But Yussef, facing the same problem, turned one tiny knob on a seemingly-unrelated chimney about one degree to the right. It made no sense, he couldn't explain why it worked, but it did: it solved the problem instantly and suddenly perfect loaves started popping out. It took me another couple of years to really understand the complex relationships between heat and humidity inside an 80 foot tunnel oven, but it would have taken ten more years before I could solve problems as well as Yussef did.
After a year or so doing every job in the bakery, you have credibility with the crew you're leading because they all know you could do their job. You have a complete, holistic understanding of the bakery in a way that no individual does. You've had a chance to watch good managers and bad, you've experienced a lot of the things that can go wrong and seen how to fix them (and how not to fix them), and you can be trusted to drive a fifty million dollar factory that churns out hundreds of thousands of loaves every night.
So they put you in charge of the night shift.
Although Yussef will probably pretty much ignore you no matter how much you think you know.
I told you that so I can tell you this:
We're planning to hire a new kind of employee at Fog Creek.
Until now, most of our hires have been programmers. That's a start, but we need to start hiring the next generation of management too.
Monday, August 17, 2009
Microsoft Web Application Installer
Tired of figuring out how to install web applications into your Windows Server? Enter Microsoft’s latest installer – Web Application Installer (Web AI). It is still in Beta.
Web AI is supposed to assist you in installing the commonly used web applications like DotNetNuke, Wordpress, Drupal and OSCommerce into your Windows Server. Familiar with the likes of Fantastico and SimpleScripts? Web AI probably works in a similar fashion.
Web AI will first perform a series of checks to acertain that your machine meets the prerequisites of the web application you want to install. It will then download the application from their source and present you with the configuration screen before installing the application.
I don’t really have the need for Web AI currently as my hosting runs on Linux. I will however download it and try it out in one of my virtual environment.
Do you have a need for such a tool in your current environment? Are you currently testing this out? Are you impressed?
Tagged as: adobe dreamweaver cs4, firefox 3.1 beta, latest software, microsoft web application installer, openoffice 3.0, software news, wordpress 2.7
Web AI is supposed to assist you in installing the commonly used web applications like DotNetNuke, Wordpress, Drupal and OSCommerce into your Windows Server. Familiar with the likes of Fantastico and SimpleScripts? Web AI probably works in a similar fashion.
Web AI will first perform a series of checks to acertain that your machine meets the prerequisites of the web application you want to install. It will then download the application from their source and present you with the configuration screen before installing the application.
I don’t really have the need for Web AI currently as my hosting runs on Linux. I will however download it and try it out in one of my virtual environment.
Do you have a need for such a tool in your current environment? Are you currently testing this out? Are you impressed?
Tagged as: adobe dreamweaver cs4, firefox 3.1 beta, latest software, microsoft web application installer, openoffice 3.0, software news, wordpress 2.7
Australia 2nd to China in APAC security software market E-mail by Peter Dinham
The Asia Pacific security market grew at a solid rate of 28.3 percent in 2008 – albeit it, down from 36 percent in 2007 - with Australia becoming the second-largest market for security software in the region after China.
In its latest report on the security software market, Gartner says that despite a slower growth rate, the security market did not suffer a significant impact from the economic downturn, with Australia showing above-average growth of 27.5 percent to reach revenues of A$248.6 million, to be the second-largest market for security software in Asia Pacific, following China.
Gartner senior research analyst, Matthew Cheung said this growth was remarkable considering in the fourth quarter of 2008, global economies began to feel the impact of the credit crunch and the global economic downturn.
“Double digit growth in a challenging economic climate confirms that security remains a key priority for Asia Pacific CIOs and IT security leaders.”
According to Gartner, data security and privacy, along with the need to protect IT infrastructure from the “ever increasing rise in sophisticated and targeted attacks in Asia Pacific”, were among the key drivers fueling the growth of IT security software spending, and for organisations operating in mature markets such as Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong, compliance was a major driver.
Cheung said the secure Web gateway (SWG), security information event management (SIEM) and e-mail security market segments demonstrated the highest growth at 48 percent, 31.1 percent and 29.4 percent, respectively.
Consumer security and enterprise endpoint protection remained the two largest sub-segments of the Asia Pacific security market in 2008, totaling US$1.08 billion, according to Cheung.
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In its latest report on the security software market, Gartner says that despite a slower growth rate, the security market did not suffer a significant impact from the economic downturn, with Australia showing above-average growth of 27.5 percent to reach revenues of A$248.6 million, to be the second-largest market for security software in Asia Pacific, following China.
Gartner senior research analyst, Matthew Cheung said this growth was remarkable considering in the fourth quarter of 2008, global economies began to feel the impact of the credit crunch and the global economic downturn.
“Double digit growth in a challenging economic climate confirms that security remains a key priority for Asia Pacific CIOs and IT security leaders.”
According to Gartner, data security and privacy, along with the need to protect IT infrastructure from the “ever increasing rise in sophisticated and targeted attacks in Asia Pacific”, were among the key drivers fueling the growth of IT security software spending, and for organisations operating in mature markets such as Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong, compliance was a major driver.
Cheung said the secure Web gateway (SWG), security information event management (SIEM) and e-mail security market segments demonstrated the highest growth at 48 percent, 31.1 percent and 29.4 percent, respectively.
Consumer security and enterprise endpoint protection remained the two largest sub-segments of the Asia Pacific security market in 2008, totaling US$1.08 billion, according to Cheung.
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