Achieve knowledge-centric application lifecycle management (ALM) in your organization for seamless knowledge transfers and ensure that the best processes and method are used during each phase of project development. 

Over the past decade, a powerful new approach to development - open source software - has risen to prominence, dramatically increasing the opportunity to re-use existing software. This report describes a set of seven best practices whose objective is to encourage development based on component re-use and software assembly. 

This paper outlines the steps that organizations must take to improve their systems and software development processes, including key best practices. It discusses solutions for unifying fractured, global development groups with existing infrastructures. 

In this week's Computer Weekly, we talk to IT leaders about successful software development, and how they combine the best of agile and waterfall methods. Drugs giant AstraZeneca talks about how it changed its outsourcing approach to eliminate past mistakes. And we look at a new social media bank that is shaking up the sector. Read the issue now. 

Best practices and new technologies available for provisioning databases for test and development environments are outlined in this white paper. Using this as a guide, organizations can save time and resources, meet regulatory compliance standards, and streamline database provisioning processes for test and development environments. 

This expert E-Guide reveals essential best practices for requirements review in agile methodologies. Inside, evaluate techniques for requirements review, discover how you can determine testability and spot missing connections, learn about the role of collaboration in agile development, and more. 

How do companies create winning business cases to justify key data center and IT initiatives and speed-up the budget approval process? Read this paper for tips and best practices for how to succeed in the budget approval process and business case development. 

Today's agile development processes and distributed environments have only increased the complexity of tracking software project requirements. Read this white paper to understand why requirements are slipping through the cracks and discover tools and best practices that can help you create traceability across your modern development organization. 

Read this paper as it is designed to help your IT team evaluate your agile development tool options and select the best approach for your business. Find key criteria to consider as well as important questions to ask before starting your journey towards agile. 

This e-guide provides expert guidance on requirements management in Agile development. Read it to find best practices for contract negotiation and tracking changes the Agile way. 

As more people become attached to their mobile devices, mobile application development should be high on your list of priorities as it may be the best way to reach your target audience. Read this expertly-compiled e-to learn how you can best develop your mobile applications to optimize their speed and reliability to surpass user expectations. 

InfoPath is a powerful SharePoint tool, but the easiest techniques aren't always the best ones. In this month's issue, learn how to incorporate best practices into your InfoPath forms development process to yield the biggest benefit for your company. 

Faced with rising customer expectations and increasing competitive pressures, Website managers are applying new technologies. In this paper, Gomez will address why traditional “Web page” monitoring is insufficient, how new demands on client-side computing change the performance game, and what the return of the browser wars means for your business.