After an era of benign neglect, enterprise instant messaging is finally winning IT’s grudging acceptance.
One analyst reports that only 28 percent of outsourcers report achieving the savings they expected.
A growing number of project managers, technical architects, and software developers are starting to see the benefits of highly iterative and incremental development.
Visual models can reduce the effort and cost of the entire application lifecycle when the size and complexity of the app justifies using them.
Want to supercharge your Visual Studio .NET development? My pick of utilities
these days is Developer Express' CodeRush.
Some people would have you believe that the entire .NET edifice is about
to collapse, revealed as nothing more than an exercise in aggressive
marketing. Don't you believe them.
There's a lot of information available out there via Web services these days.
Now - how do you make that information available to business users? StrikeIron
has the best answer to that question that I've seen so far.
We've had more than fifty years now to learn about the best ways to develop
software. So why is it that we have to keep learning the same lessons over and
over and over again?
Let's start the week with a few short items to clear out my mail bag. This time
around I've got the latest word from PreEmptive Solutions, Salesforce.com, and
SYWARE.
When Microsoft undertakes to explain kids to parents, it's safe to assume that
the kids are snickering in the chat rooms.
With the coming release of Visual Studio Team System, Microsoft is promising an
agile variant of their Microsoft Solutions Framework methodology. With a beta
version of the documentation out, it's time for some first impressions.
What happens to your software after you're done building it? In a large
organization, Wise Package Studio may be helping keep it under control.