Lack of visibility into the technical health of critical business applications creates business and financial risks that include application outages, security breaches, degraded performance, data corruption, and excessive ownership costs. These quality challenges are ushering in a new era in software engineering, the Fourth Wave. With a concentration on the architecture and internal engineering quality of critical applications, the Fourth Wave aims to reduce costs and risks.
This exclusive event for IT leaders will discuss how organization and management, IT resources and the culture of IT innovation can help maximize operational effectiveness. Attendees will discuss and share strategies that deliver results for the enterprise, the IT department and the CIO.
This invitation-only event is specifically designed to provide the most senior IT leaders with insight to shape their strategies.
Please join Mr. Frank Castellucci, former IT executive with ADP and Dr. Bill Curtis, co-author of CMM and CAST Chief Scientist, for an exclusive luncheon for application delivery and development professionals.
Join us for a webinar on January 27 at 11am EST (5pm CET, 4pm GMT, 8am PDT) and lively discussion with Capers Jones, a world-renowned authority on software measurement. Mr. Jones is an expert in function points, and has written extensively on function point sizing, automated function points, and function point methodology.
In this next discussion, Mr. Kelly Cannon, former CIO of Kaiser Permanente, and Dr. Bill Curtis, co-Author of the CMMI, will discuss Federal organizations adopting 'IT Management Visibility' programs to enable ongoing transparency and audit-readiness of their IT Program work streams. To learn about practical steps to significantly improve IT Program transparency and audit-readiness, please attend this complimentary breakfast session.
Peer Reviews are a low cost, high return investment of time that can be done anywhere in the software development lifecycle. However, many organizations struggle with the process that often becomes politically charged and opinion based. In this brief webinar, David Consulting Group (DCG) and CAST Software will show you can produce a PEER REVIEW MAP of your application to transform your peer review process and get everyone talking on the same page and moving in the same direction, with out buying any new software.
Many IT leaders acknowledge that they are reluctantly ‘flying blind’ when it comes to the quality of their IT applications, the performance of their vendors, or how their development outcomes compare to others in the same industry. Until now, there was no single source for this valuable information. CAST is proud to announce the first application quality benchmarking repository. Please join us for an online presentation on December 3rd at 11am EST (5pm CET, 4pm GMT, 8am PDT), where CAST will discuss the initial findings and insights from the analysis of thousands of applications across many industries.
Proactive attention to quality in the software development lifecycle, whether it is part of planning and design or the inspection process, is essential for delivering software products with high reliability and healthy returns on investment. In the fall of 2009, ICSQ will revisit this theme as contributors explore tangible and actionable strategies and tactics for improving software quality.November 9th Tutorial by Bill Curtis - "Controlling the Internal Quality of IT Applications Before They Embarrass You"November 10th Keynote by Bill Curtis - "The Challenge of Controlling Quality in Large, Multi-Tier IT Applications".
Please join us for a detailed presentation and discussion around the new features available in CAST Application Intelligence Platform (AIP) version 6.4, the latest release of the only enterprise-grade software quality assessment and performance measurement solution.
Many organizations think of QA as a necessary evil to make sure the product that’s shipped is just good enough for production. Some view QA as the last stage gate to prevent IT risk in their systems. Only the forward-looking organizations think of their software quality program as a competitive differentiator that makes them leaner, faster, and more efficient.
Special Guest Speaker: Dr. Bill Curtis
Lack of visibility into the technical health of critical business applications creates business and financial risks that include application outages, security breaches, degraded performance, data corruption, and excessive ownership costs. This problem is exacerbated by the multiple languages and technologies that are integrated into modern business applications. Often, the most challenging issues are hidden in the interaction among tiers and technologies. Consequently, non-functional defects that frequently go undetected by functional testing create some of the greatest quality problems in business applications. These quality challenges are ushering in a new era in software engineering, the Fourth Wave. The Fourth Wave focuses attention on the "product", and builds on the disciplined practices many organizations implemented in the Third Wave, which focused on process. With a concentration on the architecture and internal engineering quality of critical applications, the Fourth Wave aims to reduce costs and risks.
The Software Engineering Institute and Carnegie Mellon University are pleased to announce the fourth Team Software Process (TSP) Symposium to be held in New Orleans, Louisiana.
The TSP Symposium is the event where all of the yearly TSP activities will occur. The purpose of the conference is to bring together the seasoned users of the TSP, those involved in its development and transition, and those who are new to the technology and eager to learn more. The attendees will have the opportunity to exchange ideas, concepts, and lessons learned concerning the experiences, best practices, and suggested introduction strategy for the TSP methods and practices.
Join us for an in-depth discussion with Capers Jones, a well-recognized authority on software measurement. Having written some of the most widely read books on software productivity, Mr. Jones is an expert regarding Function Points and the state of the art in productivity measurement
If it runs, it must be high quality! Understanding your Application Quality metrics will help you improve performance and reduce risk. Progressive CIOs and their teams have more than opinion about their critical applications, they have data.In this partner-hosted event, David Consulting Group (DCG) will show you how with no capital investment and less than 2% of your annual application budget, you can examine the FACTS of your application quality to an actionable level of detail to address performance bottlenecks and wasted coding that cost you money. You won’t want to miss this educational presentation if you want to be pro-active about application quality and higher performance.This webinar is a must for all executives, software project managers, application and key stakeholders responsible for IT applications and governance. This is a no cost 45-minute webinar with a 10-minute Q&A to follow
Join this webinar one-time event, where , Gene Baker, VP of Application Development and Chief Architect at WySTAR tells us how he made the business case for investing in application quality, and the impressive results they've achieved at WySTAR (a subsidiary of Wells Fargo Bank)
Join this webinar one-time event, where a prominent IT thought leader, Bill Martorelli, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, will discuss best practices and key industry trends on multi-sourcing
You’re invited to join your peers for an interactive networking luncheon Co-hosted by Dr. Bill Curtis, Co-author of the CMM, and Mr. Kelly Cannon, a leader of global application delivery for over 20 years and most recently the VP for Application Development at Kaiser Permanente. This is a must-attend event for IT leaders responsible for mission-critical business applications.
You’re invited to join your peers for an interactive networking luncheon hosted by Mr. Kelly Cannon, a leader of global application delivery for over 20 years and most recently the VP for Application Development at Kaiser Permanente. This is a must-attend event for IT leaders responsible for mission-critical business applications.
In this webinar, Mr. Gil Hoffman, CIO, Maritz, will share his practical experience and insight on enabling his team to enhance business agility and innovation while addressing hard IT cost.
You’re invited to an evening of conversation, cocktails and networking at 21 Club, hosted by Dr. Bill Curtis, co-author of the CMM, and Kelly Cannon, a veteran IT executive. Both speakers will share strategies for achieving business objectives in a tough climate by focusing on IT performance and quality.
You’re invited to an evening of conversation, cocktails and networking at The Wine Cellar at Mooo, hosted by Dr. Bill Curtis, co-author of the CMM, and Kelly Cannon, a veteran IT executive. Both speakers will share strategies for achieving business objectives in a tough climate by focusing on IT performance and quality.
Designed especially for IT leaders in government, this session will cover the growing trend in IT to use automated, ongoing software assessment throughout development, acceptance, and sustainment to increase speed to market, deliver an outstanding level of quality, and promote healthy relationships with your contractors.
In the current economic conditions in 2009, heads of IT face a seemingly impossible mission - to significantly cut hard IT costs while simultaneously improving business end-user productivity. This is no longer a choice - the tradeoff between cost and business performance must be broken
Mr. Carlos Goncalves, Head of IT, Société Générale Global Equities & Derivatives will share his practical experiences and insight on how his team is enhancing software quality and aiming to increase business productivity at Societé Generale.
This is a must-attend event for those responsible for delivering quality applications to the business. Learn why systematic software quality means increased agility, lower risk exposure and controlled IT costs and practical first steps to improve software quality of your applications.
The Challenge of Quality in Multi-Tier, Multi-Language Applications
In his keynote address, Dr. Curtis will tell QUEST attendees how The Fourth Wave of software engineering addresses the evolving quality challenges in developing software. Learn how this new era in software development deals with the lack of visibility into the technical health of critical business applications creates business and financial risks including application outages, security breaches, degraded performance, data corruption, and excessive ownership costs. Previously named The QAI Conference, QUEST is “a conference for IT professionals who share a common goal of delivering quality software.”
Join Dr. Bill Curtis, co-author of the CMM, and Dr. Ray Russo, former Director of the Office of Business Enterprise Solutions at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, to learn how your programs can benefit from incorporating early, automated analysis of your software assets.
Over the last decade agile methods have been evolving to incorporate practices that address some of these concerns. Please join us for a discussion with Dr. Bill Curtis, Chief Scientist at CAST, about how an organization should implement agile methods and approach the decision to use them on business-critical applications. In particular he will address the issues of sustaining architectural integrity, ensuring application quality, and managing team coordination in a highly distributed environment.
In today’s economic climate, organizations can ill afford such risk exposure. To learn how companies like yours are limiting their exposure by getting control over the internal quality of critical business applications, take a short break from your yearend workload to spend an insightful morning with industry expert Dr. Bill Curtis, co-author of the CMM, which has become the global standard for evaluating the capability of software development organizations.
IT executives are faced with more cost constraints, while business is becoming more competitive. It has always been a challenge to trade off quality and risk for agility and innovation. Additional cost constraints make this a truly difficult equation for IT managers, especially when the core business apps are already stretched to the limit.
Margo Visitacion, a leading software quality and project management expert and Vice President with Forrester Research, will discuss how organizations can master some of these tradeoffs. Margo will discuss how leading IT shops are making sure that just enough attention is paid to quality to prevent the highest risks to the business, while increasing the agility of the application development organization.
WSTA SeminarIT Operational Excellence
Speaker: Caren EvansVP of Software EngineeringRaymond James Financial
The Warwick New York Hotel65 West 54th StreetNew York City
This new WSTA seminar is designed to address ways to optimize operational spending by running IT as a business and exploiting current technological frameworks. Process Maturity as a discipline leads to frameworks like ITIL and goal-driven capability levels like CMMi. Managed Services leveraging outsourcing allows rapid re-engineering of selected data center operations. Consolidation, clustering, virtualization and hosting of server and storage need engineering excellence. Well-designed Business Continuity Planning (BCP) is a core requirement for Wall Street companies. How do Wall Street executives manage these demands and what are the corresponding best-of-breed operational solutions offered by vendors are the key focus areas of this seminar
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.
TPI, leading sourcing advisory firm, and CAST, leader in Application Intelligence software, join to bring to you this unique webinar on October 14th at 11am EDT on how leading companies are redefining SLAs by incorporating quality metrics to manage vendor deliverables.
Join us online on October 2nd, as our Chief Scientist, Dr. Bill Curtis, navigates the jargon and techniques of lean and explains what's fad and what can actually be useful in application development and maintenance.
Dr. Bill Curtis is senior vice president and chief scientist of CAST Software. He is a globally recognized expert in software process and quality, who co-authored the Capability Maturity Model (CMM). Prior to CAST, he was the co-founder and Chief Scientist of TeraQuest, a global leader in providing CMM-based services, which was acquired by Borland. Formerly the Director of the Software Process Program in the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, he has published four books, more than 150 articles, and was recently elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Join us online on September 17th, as our Chief Scientist, Dr. Bill Curtis, navigates the jargon and techniques of lean and explains what’s fad and what can actually be useful in application development and maintenance.
Wright Patterson Air Force Base - Dayton, OHAugust 27, 2008
Featuring our Special Guest, Dr. Ray RussoDirector, FDA's Office of the CIO (recently retired)
Our special guest presenter, Dr. Ray Russo will be joined by Marc Jones, Federal Practice Director of CAST Software. They will share their insights on proactive management and governance of application development.
This webinar will present how application software quality analysis complements and strengthens CMMI-based application development processes in ways that directly affect the cost of ownership and business benefit of applications.
You are invited to join an online dialogue with Phil Vogel, Market Manager of IBM Rational Project and Portfolio Management and Dr. Bill Curtis, Chief Scientist of CAST Software, for an important webinar on using metrics to manage the quality of your application development.
Like many SAP customers, you’re probably wondering how you’ve come from purchasing an enterprise software package to owning another custom application. As resources with SAP skills get ever more expensive and your customizations ever more complex, costs just continue climbing out of reach.
Hilton New York1335 Avenue of the AmericasNew York, NY 10019CAST Booth #1612June 10-12, 2008
Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin HotelOrlando, FLCAST Booth HJune 1-5, 2008.
1000 - 1400Lane HallFort Monmouth, NJMay 29, 2008
Rosemont (O'Hare) IllinoisCAST Sponsored Speaker: Mary Johnston, Director Business Systems, HSBCMay 22, 2008.
Traditional outsourcing models have resulted in significant tradeoffs and dissatisfaction between the Enterprise and the Outsourcer. The majority of the enterprises feel that the cost of outsourcing has been as or more expensive than doing the same work in-house. On the other hand, Vendors, in spite of aggressive pricing resulting in razor-thin margins and aggressive cost reduction curves, constantly face the wrath of customer dissatisfaction.
The reality - outsourcing is here to stay. So, just how do you make this partnership a win-win?
Anaheim Convention Center- Hall CCAST Booth #307Anaheim, CAApril 13–15, 2008
San Diego Convention CenterSan Diego, CACAST Booth # 113March 16–20, 2008
Carey Schwaber, Sr. Application Development Analyst with Forrester Research, will discuss how organizations must take a proactive approach to managing the quality of their custom applications. This Webinar will outline a holistic approach for managing technical quality and the functional quality of software, as well as how quality management ties in to the overall governance of application development. It will include case studies of global organizations already using these software quality strategies.
The CIO Agenda
Join CAST at this one day conference, designed for CIOs and IT Leaders, and learn:
Applications Architecture
Join CAST and Gartner’s Research VP, Matt Driver, and learn:
Join CAST for an online CIO dialogue with Paul-Camille Bentz, former branch CIO at Allianz Group
On October 25, please join Paul-Camille Bentz and CAST for this important online discussion and gain insight into proven strategies to run IT like a business.
We are proud to announce the immediate availability of CAST Application Intelligence Platform version 6.0, the latest release of the only enterprise-grade software quality assessment and performance measurement solution on the market today. This latest release combines an enhanced user interface with unparalleled levels of technology coverage so you can gain more visibility and control over the performance of your application development.
A Conversation with Gartner’s Matt Hotle, VP & Distinguished Analyst
This web-seminar will introduce CAST’s Application Development Platform that automatically generates the metrics IT managers need to assess the performance of their AD organizations. Our experts will discuss the importance of metrics to transform application development into a measurable, predictable and repeatable process. Finally, we will present examples of companies using KPIs in Application Development and the tangible gains observed: reduced development cycles, earlier detection of quality defaults, and decreased budget overruns.
The consequences of poor software quality are widely known – sometimes even making headlines. But when it comes to achieving quality, there is only so much an individual or even a team can do. Producing complex applications of high quality is the culmination of considerable group effort amongst business and IT teams. Finding a way to deliver innovation, on time and on budget - all without sacrificing application quality is often a company-wide challenge.On July 30, please join CAST Software’s Director of Technical Services, John Gibel, for this informational webinar, as we explore how to achieve application quality by implementing an automated Application Quality Gate.
The consequences of poor software quality are widely known - sometimes even making headlines. But when it comes to achieving quality, there is only so much an individual or even a team can do. Producing complex applications of high quality is the culmination of considerable group effort amongst business and IT teams. Finding a way to deliver innovation, on time and on budget - all without sacrificing application quality is often a company-wide challenge. On July 30, please join CAST Software’s Director of Technical Services, John Gibel, for this informational webinar, as we explore how to achieve application quality by implementing an automated Application Quality Gate.
Do you devote time and resources developing or maintaining custom code or interfaces on top of your BANNER application from SunGard HE? Do you have to manage the consequences of Banner upgrades on your custom code and applications? Discover how CAST software solutions help customize, extend, interface and upgrade Banner at lesser costs and reduced risks.These 45 minute web-seminars will take place on July 11th and 17th at 12 noon EDT and will include a product presentation and live Demo on Banner.
The relationship between outsourcer and customer can be difficult given the technical and financial issues that can arise. While current SLAs introduce some measurement and accountability, they do not provide a means to properly manage drifts in maintenance costs. Moreover, they do not address areas that significantly impact application spend after the first year, such as the evolution of the application's complexity and maintainability or the justification for 'Request For Change' costs.
Whether you feel your outsourced applications are currently under control or the issues above resonate loud and clear, you must attend the upcoming Webinar for Outsourced Application Management. The webinar will give you a brand new perspective on how to measure and control the deliverables from your outsourcing vendor before poor quality and ballooning change costs disrupt your business.
Companies measuring their Application Development activities with metrics can see a measurable improvement on the productivity and quality of the work delivered back to the business. This is why many businesses are using Key Performance Indicators, also known as KPIs, to monitor their Application Development organisations.
With complex business applications, outsourced or distributed teams, and new user demands every day, it is vital to put in place processes to gain visibility and keep control over the Application Development organisation. Now you can spot potential problems or maintainability drifts early and take action before they become costly.
Join executives from Allianz, Depository Trust Clearing Corporation (DTCC) and Lehman Brothers as we discuss the latest trends in the outsourcing of software application development and management in the financial service sector Thursday, March 15, 2007, from 5pm-7pm at Club 101, 101 Park Avenue, New York, NY.
This web-seminar, hosted by CAST, features Forrester’s primary expert on the topic of software quality and application development governance, Carey Schwaber. Carey will speak about a holistic approach to managing the quality of custom applications developed and maintained in support of business needs. The discussion will cover approaches for managing Technical Quality and Functional Quality of software, and how quality management ties into overall governance of the apps dev and maintenance organization for better and more consistent outcomes.