IBM Rational focuses on software quality

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AmREIT Focuses on Quality

AmREIT Focuses on Quality 03/22/2005 04:53 PM
Small-cap real estate investment trust AmREIT beefs up on quality assets by using a unique share structure.

Rational exec envisions software
prominence

Rational exec envisions software
prominence 07/20/2004 07:30 PM
GRAPEVINE, TEXAS -- Projecting what the world will be like in 2031, Rational Chief Scientist and IBM Fellow Grady Booch predicted that software would touch every aspect of life and, thusly, developers would only grow in their importance to society.

Print Manager Plus Wins W2KNews Top
Award for Best Print Management
Software, Best Price, Best Quality in
the Industry American-British Company
Software Shelf Receives Software Award

Print Manager Plus Wins W2KNews Top
Award for Best Print Management
Software, Best Price, Best Quality in
the Industry American-British Company
Software Shelf Receives Software Award 05/31/2004 02:14 PM
Software Shelf International, Inc., an American and British software development and marketing company today announced that its flagship product, Print Manager Plus(R), has won the coveted Sunbelt W2KNews Top Award for Print Management Software. The award is presented at Microsoft's Tech.Ed 2004 for Best print management software, Best price, and Best quality in the industry. The Award was won as a result of voting from over 500,000 W2K News subscribers consisting of Windows NT/2000/2003 Administrators, MIS Managers, MCPs, MCSEs and IT professionals around the world. Print Manager Plus solves the problem of the hidden cost of printing in organizations. According to Datamation document costs consume up to 15% of a company's revenues. Print Manager Plus reduces these costs. [PRWEB May 26, 2004]

IBM re-focuses software business

IBM re-focuses software business 12/08/2003 06:56 AM
vnunet.com Dec 8 2003 6:39AM ET

Software AG focuses on integration

Software AG focuses on integration 05/17/2004 12:07 PM
The company introduces a repackaging of its product line designed to take advantage of corporate spending on integration software.

CA focuses on forgotten user IDs with
software buy

CA focuses on forgotten user IDs with
software buy 03/29/2005 08:57 PM
Computer Associates said today that it has purchased technology from InfoSec that finds and purges unused user IDs on mainframe computers.

HP roadmap focuses on management
software products

HP roadmap focuses on management
software products 06/17/2004 09:49 AM
Computer Weekly Jun 17 2004 2:05PM GMT

Roxio sells software division, focuses
on Napster

Roxio sells software division, focuses
on Napster 08/09/2004 06:28 PM
Software company sells old business for $80 million and stakes future on digital music.

Software Quality Assurance (SQA)
engineer

Software Quality Assurance (SQA)
engineer 08/06/2004 08:06 PM
Sitepak - Canada, Qc, Montreal (2004-08-06)

DevShed: Writing Quality Software

DevShed: Writing Quality Software 12/17/2003 08:28 AM
New to writing code? Wondering if there's a "standard" way to really write the large application you're dreaming about? Well, DevShed.com just might have an answer for you in their latest article.

Writing Quality Software: A Primer

Writing Quality Software: A Primer 12/15/2003 10:30 AM
Okay, so you have a respectable handle on syntax, and you are proud of yourself for getting that far. And, truth be told, you should be. But, knowing syntax is not the same as mastering syntax in such a way that builds quick, efficient web software. This article takes a look at not just writing software, but writing quality software.

Software Drives Quality for Auto
Suppliers

Software Drives Quality for Auto
Suppliers 05/03/2004 12:27 PM
APQP software helps carmakers document how suppliers design and deliver parts.

The Art Of Software Development (part
4): Delivering Quality

The Art Of Software Development (part
4): Delivering Quality 10/09/2002 11:49 AM
Just writing code isn't enough - you also need to test it thoroughly before you release it to a customer. This article discusses the testing phase of the software development cycle, providing you with an overview of test cases and testing processes, together with a discussion of how to go about documenting your software in a clear and concise user manual.

Improving the quality of open source
software through appreciation

Improving the quality of open source
software through appreciation 02/15/2004 09:17 AM
If you are a typical Kuro5hin reader, then you probably have a lot of open source software on your computer. In this article, I will explain a simple method for improving the quality of that open source software that requires little to no money and no computer expertise. This method will also make you feel better about yourself and improve the lives of others in the process. It may even reduce plaque (note: this claim has not yet been evaluated by the ADA). Read on for the juicy details.

Compuware driving CARS for software
quality management

Compuware driving CARS for software
quality management 05/18/2004 07:41 AM
Compuware on Tuesday is releasing Compware Application Reliability Solution (CARS) 4.1, a software quality management tool featuring an ?Executive Dashboard? for management-level understanding of quality issues.

Cyber-Security Chief Voices Concerns
About Software Quality

Cyber-Security Chief Voices Concerns
About Software Quality 04/19/2004 04:32 PM
Amit Yoran, director of the National Cyber Security Division at the Department of Homeland Security, urges software vendors to devise better ways to examine code for flaws before it is released.

Software Drives Quality for Auto
Suppliers (Ziff Davis)

Software Drives Quality for Auto
Suppliers (Ziff Davis) 05/03/2004 12:23 PM
Ziff Davis - APQP software helps carmakers document how suppliers design and deliver parts.

Quality assurance: Does QA really assure
quality?

Quality assurance: Does QA really assure
quality? 07/14/2002 11:29 PM
CNET Jul 14 2002 10:13PM ET

Rational ignorance

Rational ignorance 02/10/2004 02:51 AM

Lago

Rational Ignorance

Academic life is ruining the internet for me. An example: Today I read Joi Ito’s wandering entry on money, economics, and physics, and the first thing I thought of doing was to post a bibliography of all of the reading that should have been done before that post was made. And then I realized that posting such a bibliography is the equivalent of shouting at the television. It doesn’t matter what I say about it. The TV (and the internet) can’t really hear me.

Lago reacts to an interesting point that I in fact pondered yesterday before posting my thoughts from my lunch with Seth. Is it better for me to post my superficial musings with Seth in the one hour that I had before I needed to move on to the next thing, or do I scribble them in my notebook and write a more rigorous treatment with references. I decided, as Cory often says, that my blog is my notebook and that even though many of my thoughts were half-baked, it was better to write early/write often than to back burner the thoughts and probably never get around to posting them.

If you read on in Lago's post, he does raise a very interesting way to look at the trade-offs of shallow vs rigorous. What is the cost of rigor and is it worth it?

I am not an academic. I am an extremely busy businessman who happens be lucky enough to meet quite a few smart people from a variety of fields. As one good friend has told me, my primary purpose is to connect people. It probably adds more value to society for me to spend one hour getting two people excited enough to talk to each other than to sit and ponder a notion by myself. My blog is not a rigorous treatment of the topics that I'm interested in, but rather a collection of links, questions, thoughts and points of view. A great variety of people read this blog and I'm sure that just about any professional thinker in on any topic I write about will find my treatment of the topic rather superficial. The question is to me is whether this is valuable or whether my lack of rigor could actually be a disservice to the discourse.

Getting back to my last post... I actually did think about spending the weekend dragging out my old notes from Hayek, Coase, Arrow, Chandler, Shannon, Mauss, Simon, etc. and digging into my memory and trying to tie all of this together. Instead, I posted a my rambling thoughts because I knew I'd never do it if I put it off. Also, I realize that I will never be able to compete directly with full-time academic and that it is not my position to answer these questions in a rigorous way. I suppose that if I can end up getting Seth, an economist and a rabbi to sit down and chat about world views over dinner at some point, I will have served my purpose.

I don't want to ignite a academic vs non-academic flame-war here. I'm just trying to point out, as Lago does, that we are all making decisions about how much to study in order for us to make the right decisions. I don't have the time or the ability to do "all of the reading that should have been done before that post was made." Having said that, I would encourage people to post "a bibliography of all of the reading" since I am interested and so are many other people.

Q&A: Mike Devlin, IBM Rational GM

Q&A: Mike Devlin, IBM Rational GM 12/29/2003 11:10 AM
Devlin tears himself away from integrating the software development tools company he helped create to discuss Rational's fusion with Big Blue.

How IBM Is Tucking in Its Rational Tools

How IBM Is Tucking in Its Rational Tools 12/12/2003 10:26 AM
IBM executives give an overview of how they are integrating tools provider Rational Software while re-aligning software divisions.

How to Fail with the Rational Unified
Process (PDF)

How to Fail with the Rational Unified
Process (PDF) 04/12/2004 06:14 AM
This article has a good summary of a lot of mistakes in the software development life-cycle, including a comprehensive critique of the waterfall model (waterfalls are pretty but they just don't work).

More info on RUP. At our company we don't use RUP (you have to pay to use RUP), but we do adhere to the ideas of the spiral model.

IBM Sets Course for Rational 'Atlantic'
Suite

IBM Sets Course for Rational 'Atlantic'
Suite 07/19/2004 08:15 PM
Officials say the next generation of the Rational development tool suite, code-named Atlantic, represents deeper integration between IBM's Rational and WebSphere product lines.

'It's A Miracle That It Sold Anything At
All. It Was Not A Rational Buy.'

'It's A Miracle That It Sold Anything At
All. It Was Not A Rational Buy.' 01/16/2004 11:04 AM
Happy birthday, Macintosh. By Jack Schofield (The Guardian via MyAppleMenu)

Intel Promises Analysts "Rational
Growth"

Intel Promises Analysts "Rational
Growth" 05/13/2004 06:30 PM
With the dot-com bust completed, Intel Corp. is now returning to a period of "rational growth" driven by sound investment in new technologies, executives said Thursday.

Rational unveils upgrade to next tools
portfolio

Rational unveils upgrade to next tools
portfolio 07/21/2004 10:59 AM
Computer Weekly Jul 21 2004 3:35PM GMT

Rational Extends WebSphere Tool Lines

Rational Extends WebSphere Tool Lines 05/10/2004 01:44 AM
IBM's Rational Software division unveils new versions of WebSphere Studio Application Developer and WebSphere Studio Site Developer that feature ease-of-use capabilities.

Interview: Rational?s Devlin touts
merger

Interview: Rational?s Devlin touts
merger 07/23/2004 08:02 PM
Mike Devlin is general manager of Rational Software as part of the IBM Software Group. Prior to IBM?s February 2003 acquisition of Rational Software for $2.1 billion, Devlin was Rational CEO and was a co-founder of the company in 1981. InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill talked with Devlin about the merger with IBM, open source trends, and other issues in an interview at the Rational Software Development User Conference in Grapevine, Texas, earlier this week.

IBM Rational Leader Charts UML's Path

IBM Rational Leader Charts UML's Path 06/07/2004 10:10 PM
Grady Booch, chief scientist at IBM's Rational division and one of UML's creators, talks about the language's ability to add value—and how Microsoft's changing approach to modeling could impact it.

Big Blue sails Atlantic (in Rational
manner)

Big Blue sails Atlantic (in Rational
manner) 07/20/2004 06:31 AM
Tooling up

IBM Rational: Rival Microsoft Faces
Uphill Battle

IBM Rational: Rival Microsoft Faces
Uphill Battle 07/29/2004 10:06 PM
In an eWEEK interview, IBM Fellow and Rational Chief Scientist Grady Booch discusses Rational's development strategy and competition from Microsoft with its Visual Studio Team System application lifecycle development tools.

Brainstorm 2004 tutorial notes -
Rational Executive

Brainstorm 2004 tutorial notes -
Rational Executive 07/15/2004 12:18 PM

The Agency Costs of Overvalued Equity - Michael C. Jensen

Here are my notes. They are rough notes and may be a bit inaccurate or unclear.

Any time two or more people try to engage in cooperative activities, there is a cost because they never have the same preferences.

Stock options should be adjusted to dividends and cost of capital or their incentives are not aligned with shareholders.

If you as a manager find yourself in a situation where your stock is overvalued. It sets up pressures that cause people to destroy value. When an executive commits fraud to deliver market expectation, they know it's overvalued. 70bn peak but was worth 30bn for Enron. They had a choice of defending the 70bn or confess that it's really only worth 30bn. The board and the investors won't feel that it is value reseting, but rather value destruction and would fire the CEO and look for someone who could perform. No easy way to correct. Probably prevent from getting there. If you're there, you've probably lost your job.

Enron could have stopped the run-up, but they didn't see the downside of the run-up. "Charlie and I get just as uneasy when a company is selling for more than the intrinsic value than when it is trading at less." - Warren Buffet.

Overvaluation is managerial heroin. Feels good at the beginning, but turns out really bad at the end. The pressures of the market cause messing with the gray area of accounting. People raise money to buy companies and destroy more value. Funding of risky investment.

For every $1 in the purchase price, $2.31 is lost in the value of the firm for Nortel when investors realized that the acquisitions were not adding value. Companies destroy value with acquisitions. They con the market into believing that they can add value so it postpones the day of reckoning, but it eventually comes and comes bigger. Bad acquisitions were overwhelmingly with stock. Auctions with multiple irrational people increasing irrationality.

Throwing stock options in is like throwing gasoline on the fire. The solution is in the governance system. Can't solve all problems with incentive systems. You need honest and intelligent people who are monitoring. Unwinding constraints. Lockups after vesting.

Why did the shorts shut down shop at the beginning of the turn-around and didn't correct the problems.

95% of waste from stock options went to people lower than the top five officers. Some people think it is costless to issue options, but this isn't true.

DON'T LET YOUR STOCK GET OVERVALUED. If your stock is overvalued, YOU ARE GOING TO BE IN TROUBLE.

Solution for not having stock overvalued. Communicate your strategy. Don't forecast earnings in value. Publish audit-able metrics for strategy. Stop producing short term earnings forecasts. Would not even do rolling 12 month earnings forecast. Managers should not be in business of forecasting.

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Rational calendar with 364 days, extra
week celebrating Isaac Newton

Rational calendar with 364 days, extra
week celebrating Isaac Newton 01/04/2005 08:35 AM
Cory Doctorow: An American physicist has developed a "rational" calendar of 364 days, in which each date falls on the same day of the week every year, thus saving profs the bother of drawing up new homework schedules every September.

His constraints meant eight months would have different lengths than they do now. March, June, September, and December would each contain 31 days, while the other months would each get 30. To keep the calendar in synchronisation with the seasons, Henry inserted an extra week - which is not part of any month - every five or six years. He named the addition "Newton Week" in honour of his favourite physicist, Isaac Newton.

"If I had my way, everyone would get Newton Week off as a paid vacation and could spend the time doing physics, or other activities of their choice," he says.

Despite this incentive, Henry says he has encountered resistance to his plan - mainly because people would be "stuck" with a birthday that always falls on a Wednesday, for example. Henry, who is among that group, is not moved by the argument. "You have my permission to celebrate your birthday the preceding or following Saturday," he says.

Link (via Wired News)

The Raw Story | A rational voice »
Exclusive: Print document of Republican
Schiavo talking points leaked to Raw
Story

The Raw Story | A rational voice »
Exclusive: Print document of Republican
Schiavo talking points leaked to Raw
Story 03/24/2005 05:02 PM
that clumsy Republican talking points memo .. proper perspective .. Raw Story

rawstory.com/news/2005/index.php?p=202
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Ask Jeeves Focuses

Ask Jeeves Focuses 06/21/2004 12:40 PM
The search engine concern shows even more strength in search.

Motorola Spins, Focuses

Motorola Spins, Focuses 12/17/2003 06:10 PM
Motley Fool Dec 17 2003 3:51PM ET

Microsoft Focuses On Research

Microsoft Focuses On Research 05/17/2004 12:04 AM
Microsoft has turned its attention to the growing field of search, with a broad-based push that extends from its dominant Windows operating system to its MSN online division. By Associated Press (via MyAppleMenu)

Book focuses on SQL Server and XML

Book focuses on SQL Server and XML 12/24/2002 02:09 AM
CNET Dec 24 2002 1:05AM ET

Newsletter focuses on Final Cut Pro,
more

Newsletter focuses on Final Cut Pro,
more 11/14/2003 08:00 AM
The latest newsletter (PDF link) from Dr Rawstock, a resource for motion picture film, postproduction services and digital video solutions, focuses on Final Cut Pro, HD, and Film Stock...
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