Posts Tagged "productivity"

The cost of not measuring productivity

Posted by Guillermo Villarrubia on Dec 3, 2012 in Economics, Software development outsourcing | 0 comments

You can guess that in a blog devoted to software development and quality we have already talked about productivity. Well, you guessed right. You can learn here about how you can increase the productivity of your development teams by measuring quality. Or read about how to measure productivity putting it into context. Or even how technical debt can impact your productivity.

However we had never talked about the cost of not measuring productivity. Today I want to give you some hints about what that cost can be when you outsource your development efforts.

Life is shaped by decisions. Software development and quality too

Posted by Tomás Espeleta on Nov 26, 2012 in Development, Quality metrics, Software quality | 2 comments

How many dualities do we have in our lives? iPhone vs. Android, Republicans vs. Democrats, Coke vs. Pepsi…. Once and once again we see these dichotomies: a “digital” 0/1 view of life.

Try to think about an issue: whatever you like. The last discussion or conversation you had with a friend: it’s quite possible that it was in terms of something vs. somethingelse. No grays, no colors… just a never ending religion war between two ideas, which – very often – are not even that different!

How do our customers face their Application Infrastructure Management challenges?

Posted by José Ramalho on Oct 18, 2012 in Application inventory management, Customer use cases | 0 comments

To support their critical business processes, companies face an important number of challenges to manage a growing complex application infrastructure. Among these, the most desired to achieve by our customers are costs retention, avoid application downtime, manage the structure of business processes and control the configuration discrepancies between different environments. Based on the experience of our customers with Optimyth’s checKing AIM, I can say that achieve this four challenges are key to improve service levels in application infrastructure management.

How can you make sure your investment in quality pays off?

Posted by Guillermo Villarrubia on Sep 27, 2012 in Quality metrics, Software testing | 0 comments

Harvest season is here, we have to see that what we planted to improve software quality has grown, ripped and will pay off. I warned you from the beginning that there is no magic formula to calculate the benefits, all you have to do is to track the trend of software behavior.

Software Value and Lean Thinking

Posted by Tomás Espeleta on Jul 30, 2012 in Economics, Quality metrics | 0 comments

In my last post about productivity and misuse of metrics, I was saying that you should not use size to calculate productivity, suggesting that software value is what really matters. That post was obviously a provocation, and I wasn’t quite sure if there was a real standard to measure software value. Well, I found this interesting article @ IBM about this topic.