It's said that the first step towards recovering from an addiction is to admit that you have one. This idea applies squarely to change management. If a new idea is being introduced into an organization, frequently it starts in some part of the organization where the team has had the collectively realization, that we have a problem. Once that realization occurs there is a natural receptivity

One of the big challenges with offshore development is protection of intellectual property. Of course intellectual property protection is a major issue for onshore development too. Domestically there are two main layers of protection: internal controls, and legal controls. Internal controls are by their nature preventive, whereas the legal controls are remediative. The problem is that with

I've been a busy a bit while we shipped our latest release. Like all endgames, it was a lot of work. However, it felt much different from previous releases. In particular, the focus we've had via our agile process on keeping the system running at all times really paid off towards the end. Rather than a frantic rush to kill large piles of fundamental defects, things were really quite measured and

All competent companies engage in testing of their software. When this testing is completed, and the software meets the agreed upon quality criteria, the software is viewed as being good enough to release to customers. Let's dissect this further. Typically a quality plan specifies a basic set of regression tests describing the base functionality of a product, a set of new test cases for new