Software Quality

Unit Test? Yes (also btw here’s a Diagnostic Tool that may help with moving from good to great)

Collins states going from good to great requires discipline (disciplined people, thought and action). Taking software quality from good to great likely requires some of the same (including relative to unit testing) while progressively building increased levels of fun. To some unit testing is common sense and their answer to “Is unit testing beneficial?” would likely be a form of yes, or that increasingly it should be (e.g., may help with ensuring value that is inherent, intrinsic and pervasive… for some projects or applications you may even say it would be critical and innately part of developing capability maturity and being socially responsible).

On a slightly different note here is a Diagnostic Tool that may help each of us along our respective journeys. Perhaps it can somehow be applied to help us along our collective one too as the IT profession moves from good to great and toward truly being built to last and increasingly more so for the benefit of all.

Another step in the Internet’s evolution

Interesting piece on Internet Evolution by Mathew Ingram, technology writer for The Globe and Mail in Canada… The Internet Takes Another Step Into Outer Space. Perhaps this is another step in the Internet’s evolution. 2008 certainly has been an interesting year. Between now and perfect vision leap year 2020 the best is ideally yet to come.

Share or help mature ideas for making quality and value increasingly intrinsic and pervasive. Thank you for doing so.

Amazon’s view of a tester

Able to find bugs in code (The Rational Tester does Software Test and Performance Conference Boston)

Able therefore to help make quality more inherent.

Top software tools of 2008 (look forward to reading the results)

Look forward to reading the results…

Send your product submissions to Editor@SearchSoftwareQuality.com by Friday, Dec. 12.

Green, Fiction or Fact

When determining Green fact or fiction there may be value to looking in on what Gartner has to say, or in digging through an ITtoolbox CIO Knowledge Base, or in exploring BusinessInnovation and what may be included for “using IT as a catalyst to succeed”, or in using a calculator (e.g., perhaps from Nortel) to determine your possible energy efficiency savings, or in reading a free report within ITBusinessEdge, or in various ways to exploring GreenerComputing and “resources for environmentally responsible computing”.

In the past number of months of the current year has your Green movement (IT and corporate in general) made significant progress? For example perhaps progress relative to discerning Green fact from fiction. Ideally your efforts (and the efforts of many including hardware and other vendors) will increasingly bring about improved clarity and positive results that are progressively and continually more intrinsic and pervasive before, by and beyond 2020.

Thank you for all you do; and for helping the world increasingly become one on matters of high purpose. Green IT and beyond!

Earlier this year, Garner Inc. highlighted 10 key predictions that would affect IT and business decisions in 2008 and beyond. Three of the items on the list were:

• “By 2009, more than one-third of IT organizations will have one or more environmental criteria in their top six buying criteria for IT-related goods.”
• “By 2010, 75 percent of organizations will use full lifecycle energy and CO₂ footprint as mandatory PC hardware buying criteria.”
• “By 2011, suppliers to large global enterprises will need to prove their green credentials via an audited process to retain preferred supplier status.” ¹

(source)

“Trust”, a great enabler

Trust is a great enabler and something that can be grown. It may also be that it is inherently essential to moving masses towards increased usage of open source solutions. For some related reading perhaps see today’s SearchCIO-Midmarket.com post by Zach Church entitled “IBM, friends push ‘Microsoft-free’ world”.

Have you tried OpenOffice?

Unaffiliated with OpenOffice and yet to try it, however was wondering… perhaps someone out there has (e.g., perhaps following a recent Java update you decided to install it). It would be interesting to read whether you experienced a smooth install and whether you are enjoying the innate characteristics of the software. Thanks for writing a related comment or post (e.g., perhaps by starting your own ITKE blog).

Ideally you respond to these 3 items via a positive comment

• Share one characteristic you feel is a common existing inherent quality of organizations.
• Share one opportunity you feel could enhance the inherent quality of many organizations.
• Share a top-three list of what you believe does or will help ensure inherent quality as associated with our world and the IT profession.

Ideally you respond to the above 3 items via a positive comment (while trusting in your nature and inner wisdom, while seeing yourself as connected to everyone in the universe, and while doing your best to bring goodness to the path to help further ensure it is inherent within a collective journey). With hope for your cooperation, thank you in advance.

Help beam positive forward progress

Perhaps you agree that sound principles are often inherent where increasingly continual successes exist. Perhaps you feel that outside the box thinking is more possible and meaningful when understanding is more so increased inside. Perhaps on your journey to help towards evolving quality inwards, upwards and pervasively you encountered a 2005 StickyMinds.com article entitled Thinking Inside the Box. Perhaps particularly enjoyed was reading the author’s words in response to a particular comment (for example a response that essentially said Thanks, and then said that there are certainly many sources of wisdom and that we’d all benefit by introducing them into the software environment).

The notion of inherent quality is centuries old. It belongs to no one individual and all can contribute to its evolution. As volumes of material, analysis and opinion increasingly flow into and from the domains of IT and Software, ideally the world will experience quality, value, excellence, simplicity and wisdom forever made more so intrinsic and pervasive. As minds increasingly become open to creatively maturing and innovatively embedding the notion of inherent quality, ideally a positive global mindset increasingly enables greater and greater achievement for all that is for the betterment of all.  Look within and help beam positive forward progress. Thank you for doing so.

Value judgments, cost trade-offs, human factors, trends, market strengths and timing

In today’s world what commonalities may make the daily decisions of a software manager similar to those of a movie producer? In today’s world is it true that 75% of all software projects at Fortune 500 companies fail, that 33% are cancelled and that twice as many exceed budget by over 200%? The IBM Rational Software Developer Conference sounds like it may have been interesting based on Grady’s June 12 blog postings in the handbook of software architecture. If not already registered for IBM TV you can do so here and perhaps watch some of the noted conference keynote videos or R-Heroes episodes. Perhaps the quality that is inherently associated will help you beam some value intrinsically and pervasively to others within and external to your organization. 

Inherent to risk oriented successes, you may find a connection to inspiration

It may be new to you to see risk and inspiration in the same sentence. It may also be new to you to think risk can be good, particularly if you believe that in a perfect world risk should not exist. As a catalyst for continual improvement you may understandably like to have capability increasingly matured in every respect so risk is progressively replaced with greater dimensions of innate quality and value. With each milestone you achieve, remember that quality is not a destination but an unending journey of pure potentiality. Along the journey you and your organization may decide that a particular level of quality is acceptable at a particular juncture. In the same manner you and your organization may decide at particular junctures that a particular level of risk may be too. In any event ideally the continually evolving balance between Risk Management and Quality Management somehow inherently grows inspiration to further enable progress and to overcome obstacles whether associated with Business, IT or other aspects of quality of life. While this post takes no credit, ideally you find bits of inspiration within this webpage (such as in relation to a new Brandt video, Risk).

Be a catalyst for inherent quality and value

For the conscious ones out there who enjoy a good wisdom flash, may you somehow be a catalyst for spreading inner joy (quality) and inner peace (value) within interactions and interrelated products, services and mechanisms. For those who may be interested in a bit of reading perhaps listen in for the inside scoop about how some companies hire top talent. Whether you’re a CQO, CIO or everyday IT or Business Pro, may you have a wonderful weekend that is intrinsically and pervasively blessed with inner peace and inner joy.

Love to hear from an active OOP developer or two

Perhaps you have grown to appreciate the style of the Word of the Day crew at WhatIs.Com. Perhaps you have also grown to appreciate the style of programming known as OOP. Did you think a model organized around objects rather than actions (and data rather than logic) would ever reach its current level of popularity? Of the related languages that exist in the modern world, what do you consider to be your favorite or best friend and why? What inherent qualities of your favorite do you like most? What innate characteristic of quality has it helped you produce? Is Ruby your favorite, “A dynamic, interpreted, open source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity”? Love to hear from an active OOP developer to two. Thanks in advance.

Global embedding of good practice

By now you’ve likely at least heard of ITILv3 and CobiT4.1. You may in fact be making related plans in your organization. What about PSP BOK Version 1.0 (August 2005, since revised and released March 26, 2008)? As more and more read 5.1 and other parts, will commonsense principles become more embedded globally? Will reading and applying the document help overcome problems innately within a young profession that potentially has the most pervasive influence within the modern world? It just may be that real quality does exist and that it must increasingly become inherent within each of us, within all interactions, within that which we use, create and imagine. Intrinsically the critical component of continued forward progress just may be each of us increasingly partaking in good personal practices and positive collaborations.

If pro athletes earn millions, perhaps IT Pros should also (some already are; read more)

In a world where quality must increasingly become a shared responsibility, perhaps you can say that Security is in My Job Description. Perhaps you can say other things are too. Perhaps you can say there are a million reasons to be a CQO and therefore to be a help to the CIO. For those who work hard at supporting the CIO, perhaps reading this will interest you: Who wants to be a CIO Millionaire?