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Challenges and opportunities for the medical device industry: Meeting the new IEC 62304 standard
The recent IEC 62304 standard for medical device software is causing companies worldwide to step back and examine their software development processes with considerable scrutiny. This paper explores what IEC 62304 compliance means for manufacturers in the larger context of systems and software engineering best practices.
Last updated: 30 Jan 2012
Author: Martin Bakal, Senior Business Development Manager, IBM
Enterprise modernization: A Rational approach
This paper presents a new, broad, and all-encompassing multiplatform view of modernization in the context of applications, people, and teams that will help you see where to begin, and where a comprehensive strategy might lead.
Last updated: 30 Jan 2012
Author: Ashok Reddy, Director, Offering Strategy and Delivery, Enterprise Modernization & Compilers, IBM Rational
Reduced costs, improved outcomes: An executive overview of enterprise architecture and project portfolio management
Properly implemented and managed, enterprise architecture and project portfolio management initiatives offer a “blueprint” of your organization’s business infrastructure as it exists today, and a road map to achieve the changes you need to meet goals and economic challenges.
Last updated: 30 Jan 2012
Author: Robert Shields, Senior Manager, Strategic Offerings, IBM
Smarter quality management: The fast track to competitive advantage
This paper introduces a practical approach to quality management (QM) that helps reduce time to market without sacrificing quality in the outcome.
Last updated: 30 Jan 2012
Author: Moshe Cohen, Market Manager, Rational Quality Management Solutions, IBM
Transforming Software Delivery: An IBM Rational Case Study
Learn how IBM transformed its own software delivery processes over a three year period by embracing agile practices, improving team collaboration, and systematically acquiring and leveraging development intelligence.
Last updated: 30 Jan 2012
Author: Stephanie Trunzo, Senior Development Manager, IBM and Krista Meyer, Senior Manager, Rational Executive Dashboard, IBM
How collaboration in software delivery improves productivity for small to medium businesses
Learn how a collaborative development platform such as IBM Jazz helps solve some of the biggest challenges for small-to-medium businesses, and how virtualization solutions, such as Presto by Black Diamond Software, supports higher levels of productivity.
Last updated: 22 Jul 2011
Author: Randy Howie, Black Diamond Software and Mike Perrow, Marketing Editor, IBM Rational
Motivations for software security: An executive overview
Understanding the motivating factors for security improvement can lead to better business decisions and allow a business to thrive in a hostile operating environment. This paper includes an overview of the evolution of software vulnerability to help you understand your own security challenges.
Last updated: 22 Jul 2011
Author: Danny Allan, former Director of Security Research, IBM
Introducing Measured Improvement: Applying business analytics and process optimization in software and systems delivery
IBM offers measured, continuous, and quantifiable improvement in software and systems delivery. This eBook describes the business context for measured improvement, including the principles on which the approach is based.
Last updated: 14 Feb 2011
Author: Per Kroll, IBM
Scaling agile: An executive guide
This paper looks at the IBM Rational team’s experiences gained while applying agile/iterative strategies and techniques in organizations around the world, often at a scale far larger than the techniques were pioneered for.
Last updated: 14 Feb 2011
Author: Scott Ambler, IBM
What CFOs should ask software development leaders
This paper describes how CFOs can better understand software and system development projects in the fuller context of costs and benefits associated with project investments, including a practical understanding of past performance and future risk.
Last updated: 14 Feb 2011
Author: Peter Spung, IBM
Software Econometrics: Challenging assumptions about software delivery
This is an accompanying document to a pair of podcast episodes focused on “Software Econometrics: challenging assumptions about software delivery”. It summarizes the main discussion points in a conversation between IBM’s Chief Software Economist, Walker Royce and MWD Advisors’ Research Director, Neil Ward-Dutton.
Last updated: 30 Jan 2011
Author: Walker Royce, Chief Software Economist, IBM Rational