by Thomas Murphy | January 31, 2012 | 1 Comment
DVCS has become a popular trend in agile development with many open source projects making use of GIT and Mercurial and other vendors offering DVCS like function (see Hype Cycle for Application Development, 2011) but they are still a bit too on the edge for most enterprise use. Concerns about security, a still emerging toolset [...]
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by Thomas Murphy | December 2, 2011 | 3 Comments
For a long time, (a really long time) the term Application Life-cycle Management (ALM) has bothered me. Why, because what we typically call ALM tools are tools that govern the development and delivery of a software project and that is only part of the life-cycle of an application. To really be ALM you would need [...]
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by Thomas Murphy | November 30, 2011 | Submit a Comment
Gartner’s Application Architecture, Development and Integration Summit conference began yesterday (http://bit.ly/rAazgw) with over 1000 attendees and an agenda full of great presentations. This year there Cloud Computing is a major theme and I will be presenting along with Jim Duggan today on the affect that Cloud is having on AD and ALM. We will talk [...]
by Thomas Murphy | June 17, 2011 | 1 Comment
I have been to lots of daily stand-up meetings in many different companies. It is great to see how different Scrum teams work and fit agile practices into their culture and to their needs. I saw a more unique instance this week on a visit to Rally Software. This wasn’t the traditional development team stand-up [...]
by Thomas Murphy | January 31, 2011 | 2 Comments
We published the updated MQ for Integrated Software Quality Suites today (see http://bit.ly/hd4reJ ) after several months of work with vendors, users, and community review. This document focuses on vendors who provide (or are working to provide) a complete set of tools for primarily driving the software testing process including test case management, defect management, [...]
Category: ALM Quality Testing Tags: Magic Quadrant
by Thomas Murphy | September 20, 2010 | Submit a Comment
Axosoft has produced a nice 10 minute intro to scrum that describes the core processes without being a vendor tool pitch. http://www.axosoft.com/ontime/videos/scrum If you are trying to explain or understand the basics of the approach this is a great overview.
by Thomas Murphy | June 9, 2010 | 1 Comment
SAP had its first significant life-cycle partnership a couple years ago with HP providing a more robust set of tools for managing testing activities to beef up their own capabilities. Now with that relationship well established they are extending to support additional companies. Coming next quarter will be tools that integrate between SAP’s Solution Manager [...]
by Thomas Murphy | April 14, 2010 | 4 Comments
Over the past few years we have seen a solid growth in the number of companies using Agile development methods. From the ALM viewpoint Agile is one of the drivers for companies to acquire new tools. Rally Software has played well in this market with their SaaS delivered solutions supporting Scrum. Generally this market has [...]
by Thomas Murphy | April 12, 2010 | 2 Comments
ALM (application life-cycle management) continues to be an important trend in the market with a large number of vendors delivering ALM strategies and tools. It is important enough and large enough that we will migrate this year from producing a Marketscope for ALM to producing a Magic Quadrant. However, it continues to be a challenging [...]
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by Thomas Murphy | March 9, 2010 | 3 Comments
In the 8 months since this MQ launched, a market that on one hand would seem pretty stable (it certainly has been for years in its dominant provider) a good deal has changed. Borland has been acquired, new tools have come to market both in open source and traditional channels and the continued emergence of [...]
