Tag: Cast Event

Con motivo de nuestro 25 aniversario, el pasado 16 de junio tuvo lugar el primer User Workshop a nivel local, una sesión cuyo objetivo reside en crear una comunidad de usuarios de CAST AIP y mantener informados a los clientes de las novedades de nuestras soluciones.

¿Hacia dónde evolucionan las soluciones de CAST y cómo pueden influir en las organizaciones?, ¿Estoy optimizando el uso de CAST AIP en mi organización? En formato taller y para crear un ambiente dinámico y participativo se dio respuesta a esta y muchas otras inquietudes y experiencias de un grupo de usuarios de CAST AIP con el objetivo de extraer todo el valor y potencial que la herramienta puede aportar en cada organización y dependiendo del público al que se dirijan los resultados de análisis extraído.

Among CAST Application Intelligence Platform presentations and updates regarding the new CISQ RFC for Automated Enhanced Points and its relationship with the AFP OMG standard, attendees also discussed software measurement in Agile and DevOps environments.

Last week, CAST attended the Gartner EA Summit, held at National Harbor. It was two days of jam-packed sessions and workshops about Enterprise Architecture, but what stuck out the most was the value of this very unique discipline as a catalyst for Digital Transformation.

EA and Digital Transformation were the core focus of many presentations, including Mike J. Walker’s session “Leverage EA to Understand the Value and Impacts of Digital Disruption.” Mike stressed that this ever-evolving discipline is becoming a vital component to corporate strategy, delivering high-performing and sustainable business outcomes.

Today, CAST is meeting hundreds of Enterprise Architect aficionados, gurus, practitioners and professionals in National Harbor at the Gartner EA Summit. When glancing at the agenda, it is evident that EA has become omnipresent and is interacting either directly or indirectly with 100% of hot IT challenges such as Digital Transformation, Cloud Readiness, Internet of Things, Cyber Security and Innovation - the topics that are keeping many executives up at night.

The intent of this post is to share “one” view of the EA journey and provide some personal insight into software risk management and what I think will be the upcoming challenges in our favorite discipline.

Recently I had the pleasure of speaking at QAI QUEST 2016, which showcases the latest techniques for software quality measurement and testing. It was a content-rich program with more than three days of diving deep into issues like DevOps, Open Source, Security Mobile and more. But what struck me the most above all the event chatter is that even the brightest of companies are still having a difficult time identifying and fixing code quality errors.

On April 6^th, CAST held a user group meeting on the topic of function point analysis and software productivity measurement. The meeting gathered more than 20 software measurement professionals from major companies in the banking, IT consulting, telecom, aviation and public sectors for a two-hour working session to discuss the benefits of function point analysis testing.

The event featured presentations including:

1. An IBM case study on how they worked with CAST to integrate and secure an Automated Function Point (AFP) approach with a big player in the aeronautic sector within TMA Systems
2. Functional sizing case study
3. Updates on the new CISQ standards for Automated Function Points
4. The importance of internal and external benchmarking

On March 15, CISQ hosted the Cyber Resilience Summit in Washington, D.C., bringing together nearly 200 IT innovators, standards experts, U.S. Federal Government leaders and attendees from private industry. The CISQ quality measures have been instrumental in guiding software development and IT organization leaders concerned with the overall security, IT risk management and performance of their technology. It was invigorating to be amongst like-minded professionals who see the value in standardizing performance measurement.

Software Risk Management in Digital Transformation was the focus during the 4^th edition of the Information Technology Forum, hosted by International Institute of Research (IIR).  Massimo Crubellati, CAST Italy Country Manager, discussed how Digital Transformation processes are changing the ICT scenario and why software risk management and prevention is mandatory.

Massimo shared our recipe for Digital Governance evolution: including a specific ICT Risk chapter in the design of the governance structure of the digital transformation, whose most relevant aspect is to determine which methods and through which key performance indicators to measure the operational risk inherent in the application portfolio. Measurement needs to be continuous and structural, it must include the assessment of application assets inherent weaknesses, through the analysis of correlations between the layers composing them. Thus obtaining, not only an effective prevention of direct damage ensuring the service resilience, but a reduction in maintenance and application management costs.

Software risks to the business, specifically Application Resiliency, headline a recent executive roundtable hosted by CAST and sponsored by IBM Italy, ZeroUno and the Boston Consulting Group.  European IT executives from the financial services industry assembled to debate the importance of mitigating software risks to their business.

On May 13^th, a group of IT executives highlighted the importance of these software analysis and measurement in order to maintain software quality standards and to uphold a healthy and efficient relationship with business stakeholders and application service providers.