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What is IT Service Management?

The IIL Blog

It was way back in 1989 that the first version of the Information Technology Infrastructure Library, aka ITIL, emerged. LEAN processes emerged in 1991, with the Agile Manifesto launched by a group of software engineers in 2001. Along with this, our approaches to work are also rapidly transforming.

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Defensive Programming Grows Up

Leading Agile

Cloud infrastructures make it seem as if an application is long-lived, while in reality servers are being destroyed and re-created under the covers all the time. People who specialize in testing software will need technical skills more-or-less on par with competent software engineers.

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Top Solutions to Project Failure – Epicflow Research Part 2

Epicflow Blog

Merrow (Wiley, 2011), recommended by Giorgio Locatelli , an Associate Professor of Infrastructure Procurement and Management at the University of Leeds. Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering by Robert L. Glass ( Addison-Wesley Professional, 2002), also recommended by Giorgio Locatelli.

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The Definitive Guide to Release Management

Wrike

Software development has changed radically in recent years, so why are our processes still the same? Release management is a modern solution to the unique challenges software engineers and project managers face today. This software project management method covers everything from ideation to release. Focus on “what.”

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

Hybrid–Agile Software Development Anti–Patterns, Risks, and Recommendations,” Paul E. McMahon, Cross Talk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering , July/August 2015, pp. Architecting Large Scale Agile Software Development: A Risk–Driven Approach,” Ipek Ozkaya, Michael Gagliardi, Robert L. Kirkeboen, G., &

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

“Effort Estimation of Use Cases for Incremental Large-Scale Software Development,” Pareastoo Mohagheghi, Bente Anda, and Reidat Conradi, Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Software engineering. Software Development Effort Estimation using Fuzzy Bayesian Belief Network with COCOMO II,” B. 9, Issue 3, No.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Taxonomy-Based Risk Identification,” Marvin Carr, Suresh Konda, Ira Monarch, Carlo Ulrich, and Clay Walker, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-6, Software Engineering Institute, June 1993. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996. De Meyer, C. Loch, and M.