Software Management is your way of ensuring that your applications remain highly functional, reliable, and consistently available during business hours - no small feat considering the rapid pace of change in today's workplace! To be successful, you need processes to manage daily software changes and major upgrades; high quality assurance standards for debugging, code coverage and testing; fast deployment of all changes; and rapid problem resolution to keep end user productivity high.
Software Management combines all of these processes into one cohesive set of solutions that will propel your IT organization to new levels of efficiency and customer service, and set the stage for continuous improvement.
The following resources explain the engineering discipline behind Software Management, give you practical advice on how to implement your own software management strategy, and provide examples of how other IT departments have set themselves on the road to continuous improvement.
Sarbanes-Oxley: The IT Manager's Working Guide to Sustainable SOX Compliance
Designed to help you quickly assess your compliance status, this Guide takes an IT-specific look at SOX, introduces the most common IT control framework used for SOX assessments (COBIT), and gives you a list of 141 specific audit points you will likely face, highlighting areas where technology may ease the burden of compliance.
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Software Development Survival Guide: Five Steps from Chaos to Control by Paul Conte, Picante Software
Paul recommends five practical steps to make your development process more predictable and reliable so you can build better software more quickly with less cost and less risk.
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Making the Case for Software Management by Paul Conte, Picante Software
In this sequel to his popular "Software Development Survival Guide," Paul lays out a down-to-earth roadmap for IT Managers to build a rock-solid case for improving their company's software management infrastructure so IT can more effectively help the company meet its business goals.
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Application Testing Basics: A Practical Guide to Improving Software Quality by Paul Conte, Picante Software
This no-nonsense primer covers the benefits and basic principles of good testing, offers practical advice for getting the most out of your testing efforts, and pinpoints several areas where automation will help you achieve the most cost-effective results.
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The Basics of Software Management by Paul Schlieben, SoftLanding Systems
You can speed development, increase application availability, and improve software quality while reducing risk.
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A Unified Approach to iSeries Applications Testing
Learn how to build a comprehensive systems testing program so you can increase development productivity, improve systems stability, and start delivering tangible savings quickly.
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Software Engineering Institute
The Software Capability Maturity Model has become a de facto standard for assessing and improving software processes. Through the SW-CMM, the SEI and community have put in place an effective means for modeling, defining, and measuring the maturity of the processes used by software professionals.
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Streamline Your Change Management Process by Paul Schlieben, NEWS/400
Your software's availability is most at risk when it's being changed.
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Maintenance Dollars at Work by Nina Lytton, Computerworld ROI Magazine
Software vendors have it right: Maintenance work can double as development.
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