Our latest major release of trellispark is now available to download for free! trellispark is a requirements virtualization platform that enables you to configure a forms-based custom business application user experience in real-time. Over 90% of the code normally...
Why are we discussing security and ROI of data in the same blog? They are more intimately related than you might think! Why is your business critical data vulnerable? Most businesses have several and sometimes hundreds of software applications that support some aspect...
Why do we want to build a requirements virtualization platform? Our ultimate objective is for a business analyst to be able to conduct a requirements meeting with business users/stakeholders and walk out of that meeting with a working implementation of the...
Business Analysts Many business analysts spend most of their time in meetings documenting business requirements, explaining what they mean to developers, waiting for weeks and then figuring out why the implementation didn't match the documentation, rinse and repeat...
One of the first things we do when we initiate a new software application project is attempt to gather a set of software requirements. These are often broken down into Functional and Non-Functional Requirements. The Functional Requirements are then generally further...
The simple answer is knowing what your application needs to do to be successful! If only life were that simple! If you don't have complete and correct requirements, you simply can't succeed. Application projects in many organizations rush to development too soon -...
As customers, most of us pay little attention to the implementation process between ordering and delivery - we happily give little thought to the underlying infrastructure and technology as we receive our new fancy red toaster! Our attention is more towards the...
As your business critical software applications age, the technology they depend upon also ages, reaches "end of support" and/or "end of life". We also find that as applications age, they drift from their original purpose as business requirements change. They...
Many business analysts spend most of their time in meetings documenting business process requirements, explaining what they mean to developers, waiting for weeks and then figuring out why the implementation didn't match the documentation, rinse and repeat endlessly!...
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) was recently in "stormy weather" because of a major computer system failure. As per BBC News: "US air safety officials say that the glitch that led to travel chaos at airports last week was actually caused by a contractor...