To design an effective software engineering organization that delivers business value, software engineering leaders should begin by understanding the IT operating model (ITOM) targeted by their CIO.

Freely available and open to anyone to contribute to or use, open source software is regularly at the heart of exciting and impactful innovation. Much of this innovation is a result of the ethos of ...

Researchers propose that human factors involved in the software development processes will determine the quality of the products developed. However, the results of the study also suggest that tools, ...

Over the course of the last decades, there was a steady rise of flexible software development practices around the world. The reason seems simple enough: an increased diversity in products, processes ...

These days I find myself in a lot of meetings where folks talk about things like risk management and compliance as well as software security. Those meetings have gotten me thinking about how and why ...

Technical debt is the term for issues embedded within the code of the software that make it harder to maintain. These issues may not immediately be apparent to a user, but instead are visible to the ...

Every organization, no matter its size, has an abundance of moving pieces. Ensuring that all those pieces move in perfect synchrony starts by devising an organizational structure that represents the ...

Evolving technology is changing the nature of warfare. Software has transformed from a means of operating hardware-based weapons systems to being the essential driver of nearly all the Army's weapons, ...