Normal service will be resumed shortly
Some might say it will be difficult to notice, given the (lack of) regularity of my posting here recently - ahem - but over the next couple of days this blog will be unavailable for one or more periods. All should be back up and running by Monday.
The reason is that we're migrating this blog from Blogger to Wordpress as part of a major overhaul of our website and online services. There's a lot going on behind the scenes here, but we'll try and keep any disruption to the site proper to a minimum.
Note: customers of our advisory services will be unaffected by the site changes.
Once our new site is live next week, I'm sure you'll notice some major improvements. Our current site is still essentially the same as it was when we founded MWD in February 2005, and our business and research library have outgrown it.
The new site is way easier to read and navigate, and it'll be much easier to explore our research library and see what we have to offer. Also the site will reflect our redesigned logo and updated branding. Be sure to check it out!
See you on the other side...
Labels: MWD
Links for 2009-07-02 [del.icio.us]
Labels: MWD
Links for 2009-06-09 [del.icio.us]
Labels: MWD
Links for 2009-06-02 [del.icio.us]
Labels: MWD
Links for 2009-05-27 [del.icio.us]
Labels: MWD
Links for 2009-05-20 [del.icio.us]
Labels: MWD
Micro Focus gobbles Borland, Compuware assets
Earlier this week, UK-based application modernisation technology vendor Micro Focus announced that it's purchasing Borland, as well as the testing and quality management software assets of Compuware.
Bola Rotibi, our Software Delivery Principal Analyst, has a great piece on this over on our
new Software Delivery blog. Please check it out -
Borland acquisition: it finally happened – but not how we expected.
You can also subscribe to MWD's Software Delivery blog feed
here.
Labels: borland, Compuware, micro focus, MWD, Software Quality
Links for 2009-05-05 [del.icio.us]
Labels: MWD
Software Delivery InFocus podcast - the challenge of software quality
This is the fourth in our Software Delivery InFocus series of podcast episodes, starring Bola Rotibi - the Principal Analyst of MWD's Software Delivery competency area. In this episode, she discusses the thorny issue of software quality. This is something the IT industry has talked about for decades - so why is it still so patchy? Bola's guests are Madelyn Bryant McIntire, Principal Group Manager, PQO Product Quality Management, Microsoft; and Justin Spencer, Development Manager at Lend Lease (a large publicly listed international property group).
Producing quality software code is undoubtedly a desired goal of any software delivery team - irrespective of whether the delivered application is for commercial sale or internal business use. Software quality is regularly placed in the top five demand requirements of the software delivery team, yet the quality of software is regularly highlighted as a major failure point and the basis for much end user dissatisfaction. Here, Bola talks to her guests about the main points of failure in software delivery processes; the actions that Microsoft and Lend Lease take to improve the quality of delivered software in a business-driven environment; where the next challenges will come from; and what tools suppliers could do better.
You can download the audio
here or alternatively you can
subscribe to the podcast feed to make sure you catch this and all future podcasts!
Labels: Lend Lease, Microsoft, MWD, podcast, Software Quality
Links for 2009-05-04 [del.icio.us]
Labels: MWD
Links for 2009-04-15 [del.icio.us]
Labels: MWD
Links for 2009-03-04 [del.icio.us]
Labels: MWD
Collaboration momentum building in 2009; what do CIOs think about IT Governance?
A few days ago the results of our second CIO UK poll were published in this piece -
CIO Debate: Collaboration is building momentum in 2009. The poll corroborated earlier research that we carried out for our
Collaboration advisory service in the summer of last year, in conjunction with the guys at Freeform Dynamics.
The headline findings: despite all the hype, collaboration adoption is still just getting underway. A big part of the reason for this is the difficulty of justifying big up-front infrastructure investments. Where collaboration is growing fastest, though, it's business activities "at the edge" - those involved in interactions with external parties - which seem to be driving things along. There is a significant amount of appetite for collaboration technology, though, and our research indicates that 2009 will be quite a strong year for collaboration technology adoption.
Our third CIO UK poll is now live at
cio.mwdadvisors.com, and this time we're asking a handful of questions about approaches to IT Governance. How many organisations are pursuing formal IT Governance programmes, and if so what are the reasons? Are they basing their efforts on established frameworks like COBIT and ISO 38500? And what are their plans going forward? Those are some of the questions we're looking to explore.
If you're a CIO or IT Director - or you know someone who is - please take 2 minutes to provide your input (or send your contacts the
link)! We'll be publishing our CIO UK Debate piece on this topic in the next few weeks.
Labels: CIO, collaboration, governance, MWD, poll
Links for 2009-02-13 [del.icio.us]
Labels: MWD
Links for 2009-02-09 [del.icio.us]
Labels: MWD
Links for 2009-01-28 [del.icio.us]
Labels: MWD
Links for 2009-01-27 [del.icio.us]
- Process for the Enterprise » Blog Archive » MWD’s Vendor Comparison Report
Scott Francis of BP3 reviews our recent BPM vendor comparison report. Some good constructive criticism which we'll take on board for future development. "This is a great start to anyone's software vendor analysis, and I imagine anyone who is serious would invest in getting access to the premium service that lets you adjust the scoring to fit your scenarios." - Chuck's Blog: More On Private Clouds
OK, private clouds. I know this makes me really really unfashionable and late-to-the-party, but - we're talking about utility computing here, aren't we? Aren't we? Tell me I'm missing something, please.
Labels: MWD
Links for 2009-01-22 [del.icio.us]
Labels: MWD
Links for 2009-01-21 [del.icio.us]
Labels: MWD
Links for 2009-01-19 [del.icio.us]
Labels: MWD
