When outsourcing the Quality Assurance (QA) of your systems and applications, it pays to be discerning of the QA best practices your prospective QA providers can put in place to ensure the quality of your software and systems. If you already have a QA provider in place, how well do you know their best practices and how they impact the overall quality of the software applications that you deliver?Continue reading

In today’s business world the volume of available information is already staggering, and with the progression of the social data revolution it is only getting larger.    These massive amounts of data, or big data, provide companies outstanding opportunities to enhance efficiencies and increase revenue.Continue reading

There is a rapid change taking place in both the skills essential for managing IT projects and emerging trends within the industry. The other aspects of project management, while still important, will become less critical as we end 2011 and move into 2012.Continue reading

I find it interesting when software companies prepare to rollout new applications or services. The launch is usually accompanied by a lot of fanfare and hoopla, as befits “the next big thing (NBT).”   Then comes the inevitable; it flops. How can so many companies, some of them icons within the technology community, do something as important as roll out new technology so poorly?  Continue reading