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Software vendor relationship - can you make it better?
Your company bought a corporate software solution. Your teams tweaked, modified and tested to get it up to your requirements. Now, you just continue to use it for the next 20-30 years without problems. Right?Well, not quite. The marriage between a co...
Competition Software Testing - Benefits and Risks
Testing of any solution, especially software is a very slow and painful process, which requires a lot of human resources and proper design of test scenarios. Because of the slowness of the process, something can be missed.So a number of companies org...
3 Rules to Avoid Problems due to Changes in Development
A software development company can be impacted when trying to modernize their development tools or environment - improper verification can lead to incompatibility with the code, a lot of lost time and energy and a whole lot of headaches for the teams...
4 Controls to Avoid Risks of Fully Trusting a System
All large businesses rely on software solutions to manage many aspects of their business. In time, the business grows so accustomed to the "system" that they deem it authoritative for all information and rarely question it's outputs. When this point ...
Creating Good Software - Align expectations and development
The easiest way to create a bad product in custom development is to misunderstand the customers expectations. This is a discussion of risks that are brought by poor specification, poor understanding of business needs and the hurry to make a profit.Me...
Information Risks when Branching Software Versions
Branching of software versions is a regular and everyday process in software development. However, branching brings inherent information risks that require good controls and regular oversight. Here is an analysis of these risks and the possible contr...
