More and more software projects in the mainstream are embracing Agile, these days. It’s important to understand how this paradigm shift impacts testing teams. And, what are the challenges testing teams encounter and how do they overcome them? This blog post is an attempt to answer some of the questions above by taking inferences from [...]
Why Do Products Fail?
First of all, how do you assess whether a software project (or product) is fundamentally a success or failure? I would say by answering the following questions, one can agree on the product’s end result. Has the product fulfilled the business necessities of the key stakeholders? Were the deliverables produced on timely manner and within [...]
Indian Wedding conducted in a Project Management Perspective –‘A different approach’
We are happy to inform that an article by our Project Manager, Mr. Prashant Malhotra, has been published by PMI North India Chapter on the Jan-Mar 2012 Newsletter. The featured article titled ‘Marriage Ceremony managed by Project Management Professional’ correlates various aspects of Project Management with a typical Indian arranged marriage. It’s a lively narration [...]
Avoid Final Minute Performance Screwups
In how many projects have we noticed development getting completed on time, testing completed on time and finally live production usage failing because of unexpected behavior of the software due to high Volume and Load. I am sure all of us would have experienced it. What leads to this situation is not lack of [...]
Why should CIO/CTOs assess IT architecture?
Assessment is the important process that we follow from our school days. In personal life, when we meet certain expectations through assessment, we move into next stage either it is in educational assessment or family relationship. Simply, assessment makes us comfortable to understand the reality and plan to move ahead. Similarly in business world, enterprise [...]
Enterprise Unified Application Platform (EUAP) – Series 1: Maintaining Legacy Applications
In this series of blogs, I would like to share about all the aspects of a framework platform called Enterprise Unified Application Platform (EUAP) – right from pain points from legacy applications to introduction to EUAP – adoption models, transformation methods, implementation and its benefits. I hope you enjoy reading all the episodes of this [...]
Ingredients of a Successful Product
What makes a successful product (okay to be specific – a software product)? In other words, what causes so many software projects to fail? – These are reasonable questions to ask and to be answered. Let me try to bring clarity on this topic in this blog. According to the Standish group report over 80% of [...]
User Experience (UX) – Why is it important?
As the topic mentioned, let’s see the importance of user experience (UX) in this blog. The following figure shows the various components of UX. Focusing on each of these attributes, helps to achieve effective UX in an application or website. Components of User Experience Everyone one of us is a consumer of [...]
Consumerization of IT
Have always wondered if the likes of Microsoft will ever prioritize user experience (user delight) on par with technical excellence & enterprise IT security.. I have always held the opinion that if the end users are able to seamlessly and intuitively use a software, user adoption increases and naturally boosts the ROI (Application Portfolio Rationalization!) Well, [...]
Aspire wins 3rd Prize in Watts Humphrey 2012
Do you know what it takes to win the Customer and delivering a customer experience that your competitors can’t match? We at Aspire Systems have provided the answer, “Producteering”, to the companies across the globe by winning the 3rd prize in the Watts Humphrey 2012 competition conducted recently by SPIN Chennai. The theme of the [...]