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Featured Content from MKS
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- New Efficiencies in Application Development
Using MKS Portfolios to Reduce IT Costs
and Increase AD Effectiveness
This paper outlines the major differences between Application Portfolio Management and Project Portfolio Management and reviews the unique Portfolios solution offered by MKS. With 76% of a firms IT budget going to ongoing operations and application maintenance, it is essential that CIOs gain greater visibility over the entire AD effort. Learn why MKS Portfolios is the solution to deliver real-time, accurate status, metrics and trending for all development activities, ensuring that IT is accountable to the business and enabling improvements in IT efficiency.
- Sarbanes-Oxley, IT Governance and Enterprise Change Management
Enterprise Software Change Management (ESCM) is recommended as a solution to combine process methodologies such as COBIT with the infrastructure necessary to manage and store process workflows and then measure the results of those processes. With ESCM, any business processes, including all software development processes, can be automated with full audit trails. Thus, Enterprise SCM can play an integral part in achieving Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.
- Managing Service Oriented Architectures with Application Lifecycle Management
With software project failures continuing to plague IT organizations, management needs to improve control over departmental activities ranging from project planning, project execution, development and IT operations. Yet it is difficult to achieve this control if the data is scattered throughout dozens of diverse tools supported by disparate processes. Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) is an approach to bridge these challenges by enabling IT to be more adaptable to the business. This white paper discusses the key management challenges surrounding SOA adoption and how application lifecycle management (ALM) can provide a comprehensive management platform for SOA transformation, adoption and ongoing administration, ultimately reducing the complexity of SOA deployments.
- Using MKS to Help Achieve CMMI Maturity Level 3
This paper highlights the requirements and tools necessary for an organization to reach CMMI Level Three. It features a short case study on Lockheed Martin's successful attainment of CMMI-SE/SW Level Five certification with the help of MKS. Central to any software process improvement effort should be a process-centric change management solution, such as MKS Integrity, which provides the control necessary for implementing CMMI.
- An Innovative Approach to Managing Software Requirements
Explore the current state of the requirements management tools landscape and how requirements are authored, captured and traced through the downstream lifecycle, how companies can utilize best practices such as parallel development and reuse in relation to requirements, and how configuration management concepts such as versioning and base lining can be leveraged for advanced requirements management practice.
- It's All About Process
In IT today it is still difficult to describe how a business requirement ends up as part of a functioning business service. This white paper will look at these issues with emphasis on two process methodologies - CMMI for software engineering, and ITIL for best practices in service delivery. The paper discusses bridging these processes and delivering them as one IT application process.
- Scalable Process for Enterprise Software Development:
Standardizing SCM and Change Management Tools for Maximum Advantage
This white paper makes the case for standardization and then provides recommended solutions for minimizing the pain that comes with changing software development tools and associated processes midstream. It sets out an industry accepted method for rolling out these tools and processes, allowing individual development teams to harmonize their development and delivery of software applications, while retaining certain unique and necessary elements of their processes.r
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