Technical debt infection

Posted by Juan Carlos Castromil on Apr 18, 2013 in Development, Technical debt | 2 comments

Imagine that your company has software maintenance issues, perhaps one reason is the technical debt you have, even if you are not aware of it. Many of the clients I deal with on pre-sales meetings, don’t know why, year after year, have maintenance cost growth, and they are not even familiar with the “technical debt” concept.

I have recently read a very interesting article by Steve Garnett. I would like to share with you some of the concepts presented in it, using a dummy situation between a doctor and her patient.

Software quality in game development

Posted by Víctor Tamames on Apr 8, 2013 in Development, Software quality | 3 comments

Software always had, have and will have bad reputation. It always fails for one thing or another, right? The software development industry, at large, does its best applying new methodologies, quality standards, certifications, and a very large etcetera in order to try and avoid problems and failures to keep their clients happy. But it is never enough, software fails, “it is a known fact”. People accept that, generally, but in some markets those failures transcend mere annoyance and become unacceptable, for example: the videogame industry.

Where are your applications’ boundaries?

Posted by Sebastián Revuelta on Apr 4, 2013 in Application inventory management | 0 comments

“We have 1300 applications”, “We have 1 application only, but it is THE application”. I heard these statements from 2 different clients. The first one is smaller than the second one. How can this be? If 1300 >> 1 !!! Well, it comes from the ambiguous definition of…what an application is? How do you split your software?

What’s the most popular programming language?

Posted by Javier Salado on Mar 21, 2013 in Development, From the editor | 0 comments

The eternal controversy. Does it really matter? Well, it depends. For a company like Optimyth Software, it does matter. Why? because we measure and analyze software, and software is built with code. We have to be up-to-date with the technologies and languages developers around the world use. If we want them to measure and track the quality of the software they develop, we have to support the languages they use. So, we do look into this to plan the evolution of our products.

Reducing MIPS

Posted by Juan Carlos Castromil on Mar 14, 2013 in Customer use cases, Economics | 0 comments

Here at Optimyth Software, until now, we have focused in reducing our customer’s software maintenance cost with our solutions. This doesn’t mean cost reduction is the only benefit our customers get when they implement our solutions, they can help as well in other aspects with different flavors: effective use of software and hardware resources, compliance with application security best practices, improve reliability of the code developed in different programming languages and more.