On-Demand Events

In this webinar David Norton of Gartner Research discusses recent findings on Technical Debt that estimates industry IT debt is at $500 billion—and on target to reach $1 trillion by 2015. He also talks about the importance of Software Analysis & Measurement to manage Technical Debt, how to measure debt continuously to control TCO of the application lifecycle and include debt measurement in project management and prioritization.

In this webinar, experts from CAST and The David Consulting Group will explain how to proactively manage risk while optimizing the value you bring to the business by adding application quality measurements into the assessment process to ensure project deliverables meet requirements and expectations.

In this webinar, Steve Hall, author of "Managing Global Development Risk,” discusses the challenge of aligning vendor SLAs with long term business value. Steve discusses how you can build healthier and transparent relationships between vendors and customers by incorporating application structural quality measurement and practical, meaningful metrics to mitigate risk. You’ll learn how you can avoid vendor lock-in, improve production support activities and align metrics between vendors and project managers.

Don’t miss an exciting webinar with Melinda Ballou, a leading analyst with IDC, as she reviews the newly defined market category of Software Quality Analysis and Measurement (SQAM).   Hear Melinda discuss the motivation behind increased spend on SQAM such as competitive pressures requiring rapid adaptability while avoiding software failure, complex sourcing environments that include onshore, offshore and open source options, and economic impacts that drive efficiency and accountability in development.

CAST’s second annual report on global trends in the structural quality of business applications shows that the average business application has $3.61 of Technical Debt per line of code.  Hear from Dr. Bill Curtis, Chief Scientist and SVP of CAST Research Labs on findings and implications in the report, along with industry benchmark data.  Some of the topics covered include if certain technologies are more susceptible to technical debt, if the size and age of an application affects its structural quality, and if the application development methodology (agile, waterfall, etc.) has an impact on structural quality.

Hear from Raju Pusapati, Head of Enterprise Architecture at American Express, on adopting an innovative IT Governance model to proactively measure and manage the key drivers of application costs and risks.  With Software Analysis and Measurement, they have achieved a state of more reliable applications, satisfied business owners and ultimately happier customers.

Listen to an exciting lineup of experts on the Future of Software Analysis and Measurement:  Dan Galorath, President & CEO of Galorath Inc and Bill Curtis, SVP & Chief Scientist, CAST will have an engaging discussion moderated by David Herron, VP, Knowledge Solution Services, David Consulting Group.  These industry veterans will discuss how SAM tools coupled with estimate models can impact organizational performance through increased ROI, customer satisfaction and business value.

Hear Steve Eannuzzi, VP at Bank of New York Mellon, discuss the quest to improve the structural quality of their core applications by identifying defects earlier in the development cycle and eliminating waste in application development applications to reduce outages and achieve productivity improvements.

As IT organizations have started exploring the application of Lean practices to the development and maintenance of application software, many have missed focusing on the crucial pillar of Jidoka--early detection and elimination of defects.

Join us on Tuesday, July 19th to hear Dr. Bill Curtis, Director of the Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ) and Chief Scientist at CAST, discuss key steps to cut IT costs through Lean principles:

• Eliminate much of the 30-50% of development effort wasted on defects in source code and the rework they cause
• Reduce maintenance resources by addressing the changeability of code early in development
• Sustain the quality of the application over its lifetime by continuously tuning the performance of code and managing application size
• Mitigate the structural problems in source code resulting in the fast pace and short release cycles of Agile

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solutions promise the holy grail of full lifecycle visibility–to perfectly align business objectives with development activities to deliver optimum business value. However, they often end up being used as developer tools to manage individual projects.

Join us on June 30th to a get a firsthand perspective on leveraging ALM and measurement to meet CIO’s objectives from Francois Gitton, current CIO of Veolia, world leader in management of water and wastewater, operating in 67 countries. Prior to Veolia, Francois held the position of CIO for several leading organizations including Renault-Nissan, a leading automobile manufacturer; Carrefour, the second largest retail group in the world; and La Redoute, the largest mail order company in France.

Learn how Francois Gitton has leveraged measurement and ALM to meet key CIO objectives:

• Meet business requirements on time
• Deliver cost effective solutions
• Reduce application TCO as much as possible
• Keep full control of the Enterprise Application Portfolio

Ask 10 IT executives what they mean by Application Portfolio Management (APM) and you’re likely to get 11 different answers! With the ratio of new development to maintenance spending currently at 30 to 70 (or worse) in many IT organizations, it’s absolutely critical to get APM right to make room for new applications that drive business growth. But what exactly is APM and is it worth the trouble?

Join us on as guest speaker Forrester Research Inc. Principal Analyst Phil Murphy discusses his research on APM at 30 companies, and the distinct patterns of APM success and failure. Phil’s presentation provides data on portfolio budgets and trends and will explain how to:

• Implement APM – the universal steps and the techniques for gathering key metrics
• Select the right APM tools for your business objectives
• Record and preserve critical application knowledge that SMEs carry in their heads
• Create an objective foundation for managing vendors

Listen to Capers Jones On March 29th speaking about quantifiably-proven techniques to measure and manage software risks. With data from a large number of applications and process improvement studies worldwide, we’ll discuss how to quantify the effectiveness of quality improvement techniques, assess the relative impact of software quality risks, and explain how to rationally decide how much to invest in mitigating these risks.

Isaac George, Group Director, APM & Offshore, Steria, Sandya Gopal, Head of Agile Center of Excellence, HCL, and Dr. Israel Gat, Director of Agile Product & Project Management practice, Cutter Consortium to hear how they have made Agile work in the context of outsourcing and offshore application development.

Agile development and offshore outsourcing are two trends in software development that enable you to get more for less. But can they coexist? Can offshore Agile teams boost productivity exponentially? Or is this a bad combination?

 Listen to this on-demand webinar to learn more on Agile development and offshore outsourcing

Hear Dave West, principal analyst at Forrester Research discussed how organizations are striking the right balance between delivering fast yet keeping their Technical Debt down so that they can remain truly agile.

 According to recent survey data by Forrester Research, Agile methods are now the predominant development approach. Their success is due to their promise of both delivery speed and business value. But agility is more than short term speed. Short term speed can actually reduce long term business agility.

Pat Howard, VP Global Application Software Delivery at IBM discussed about "Development and Maintenance for the IBM Corporation"

Results from CAST’s 2010 Worldwide Application Quality Study

There is more than one million dollars of technical debt in an average IT application, but what does that mean and why should you care about it?

CAST has just released results from the largest analysis of the structural quality of IT business applications ever conducted. Dr. Bill Curtis, Chief Scientist and SVP of CAST Research Labs along with other co-authors of the study will discuss the findings and implications from analyzing 288 business applications totaling 108 million lines of code drawn from 8 industry verticals.

Webinar will provide answers to the following questions:

• What is technical debt, how do you estimate it, and which technologies are most susceptible to it?
• What technology scores highest and lowest on Security?
• What industry sectors score best and worst on Changeability, and how does this translate into cost of ownership?
• How does the size of an application affect its quality?
• Why is Application Development reactive instead of proactive?

Please join Mr. Lester Thomas, Head of Architecture, Vodafone for an online dialogue on using automated software analysis and measurement to align IT with business objectives.

Mr. Thomas will discuss how Vodafone use automated software analysis and measurement to:

• Tap into accurate and actionable quality metrics to increase application performance and reliability
• Obtain the architectural visibility to rapidly enhance mission-critical systems under severe cost and time pressure, and
• Boost business responsiveness by measuring and reducing the complexity of critical applications.

The buzz around Agile continues, but what's the actual impact on business agility? Is it too early to tell?

Hear Rebecca Parsons, CTO, ThoughtWorks and Dr. Bill Curtis, CAST Chief Scientist and Co-Author of CMM, explain how to adopt Agile on core business systems to improve productivity, quality and business outcomes

This web-seminar will present recent trends in SLAs with some practical examples incorporating new metrics. These new metrics not only help mitigate business risk by proactively managing application quality but also help build healthier and transparent relationships with vendors.