News

Agile Development Morphs Q/A

Agile appears to have gained ground during the recession as companies looked to speed up software development

Social Nets Create Compliance Challenges

Social networks are more akin to webmail, where there are many different ways to access the sites, which makes them more complicated to monitor

PCI Council Launches Certification Program

The PCI standard specifies several high-level security controls that all companies handling payment card data are required to implement.

When the FDA Comes Knocking

One of the ways the FDA will tighten its oversight is to increase the frequency of audits at pharma and medical device companies

Current Software Quality

An interview with Watts Humphrey on why he believes software quality is so bad and what can be done to remedy the situation.

The FDA & Validation

Because so many of our business processes are governed by electronic systems, the topic of CSV inevitably comes up during the course of an inspection.

Agile with Scrum

Scrum enables teams and their clients to develop complex products by entrusting them to use their talents and intelligence to devise their own direction.

The Regulatory Challenge

When InformationWeek asked IT Managers how many requirement sets they were addressing, the No. 1 answer was four or more.

Why IT Projects Fail

According to Gartner Group, 84% of IT projects are either off schedule, exceed budget, or arrive without features users require.

IT Outlook 2010

The cloud will speed delivery of custom applications by enabling organizations to easily leverage infrastructure as a service platforms.