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Software development and delivery performance measurement and management: Optimizing business value in software
A new approach to performance management that starts with identification of business outcomes and related measurements and provides senior decision makers with the information they need to leverage their software delivery process to drive innovation and achieve competitive differentiation.
Last updated: 20 Nov 2009
Lowering business costs: Mitigating risk in the software delivery lifecycle
This paper explores the relationship between risk management and requirements management, describing how improved project success rates require teams to focus on business outcomes, become as productive as possible, and mitigate risks with proven tools and techniques.
Last updated: 01 Aug 2009
Improving software economics: Top 10 principles of achieving agility at scale
Through decades of advancing software development best practice, we've learned that software production involves more of an economics than an engineering discipline. This paper provides a provocative perspective on achieving agile software delivery and the economic foundations of modern best practices.
Last updated: 01 May 2009
Software and system development with the IBM Measured Capability Improvement Framework: A business process for smarter companies and smarter devices
Learn how the IBM Measured Capability Improvement Framework helps software delivery teams effectively manage risk or innovation and diseconomy of scale, and understand the effectiveness of different production models.
Last updated: 01 May 2009
The future of software delivery
Before embarking on a new architecture, a new software model, or a new method of making and maintaining software, consider carefully what SOA, OSS, and GDD are, what they represent, and where they come from. In this way, you can better prepare yourself for their eventual mass adoption.
Last updated: 01 Feb 2007