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Dangerous Dubai? There’s No App for That

Mobile travel apps are all the rage, especially for destinations like Dubai. While they appeal to tourists, they don’t tell the whole story.

May 25, 2012 3 mins

Consumer Electronics Software Development

Beyond Templates: Building a Better Business Website

Are you looking for a more robust and actionable business website? Here experts offer advice to help you move beyond a basic template-based business website.

May 23, 2012 7 mins

Retail Industry Small and Medium Business Web Development

Mobile App Standoff: Web App vs. Native App

For resources-strapped companies that want to get in the mobile app game, a Web app tuned for smartphones and tablets is a wise choice. Just ask Texas insurance provider ANICO.

May 21, 2012 4 mins

Small and Medium Business Smartphones iPhone

How to Advance Lean Software Development (Beyond the ‘Toyota Way’)

The concept of lean software traces its origins to lean manufacturing and the Toyota Production System. Building software is much different than building a car, but lessons about reducing waste and achieving continuous improvement apply nonetheless.

May 21, 2012 9 mins

Agile Development IT Governance IT Strategy

5 Ways to Send a Custom Software Project Off the Rails

Unless you want to build a software system that quickly becomes a fossil (or a monster), you should avoid doing these five things that usually seem like a good idea at the time.

May 21, 2012 6 mins

Agile Development Enterprise Architecture IT Governance

IT Should Forget Development, Focus on Requirements and Release Management

Despite all the changes to application lifecycle management (ALM), IT organizations are doing just fine when it comes to core development processes. It is the "bookend" processes of requirements management and release management that need help.

May 18, 2012 6 mins

Agile Development Collaboration Software Small and Medium Business

Kicking Waterfall Project Management Habits Requires Agility

Things that won't die are great for the movies, but bad ideas that won't go away can really hurt cloud projects. Unfortunately, management likes classic, counterproductive waterfall project management and binary go-live deployments for cloud project

May 11, 2012 5 mins

Agile Development Engineer IT Governance

Facebook Developers: How to Get Admitted Into the New App Center

Facebook's new App Center is set to launch, but are you ready to be seen? Here are four steps you, and all Facebook developers, must follow to ensure your app is included.

May 10, 2012 5 mins

Engineer Facebook Web Development

Using Pair Programming Practices in Code Inspections

If the dynamics of code inspections have changed in the past three decades, how should we inspect now? Matt Heusser suggests that pair programming principles could provide some, but not all, of the answers.

May 9, 2012 8 mins

Agile Development IT Governance IT Skills and Training

How to Address Cloud Application Lifecycle Challenges

Taking an agile approach to the application lifecycle in a hybrid cloud environment means moving beyond the one-and-done method of V2C conversions and embracing DevOps. Getting development and operations to collaborate means linking resource, configu

May 8, 2012 8 mins

Agile Development Engineer Project Management Tools