Sometimes outsourced development projects fail. Study post mortems documenting such failures or talk to people who were involved in failed projects, and you will discover that failure was often rooted in mediocre team organisation and meager management practices.
Let’s assume you are outsourcing your software development and wondering if things could go any faster. Development teams quite obviously vary in their inherent ability to deliver fast. On the whole, you determine the potential when you select a specific vendor / team to deliver the service.
The growing importance of apps to Europe’s economy is the subject of a new report sponsored by the ACT 4 Apps which provides app developers with educational events, development and UI tools, and a platform for getting more involved in policy issues that affect them.
The idea of the digital changing things sounds hardly impressive for both professionals and common users of the countless number of electronic devices, gadgets and applications which have actually become part and parcel of our lives and are simply here to stay.
“Impact mapping is a variant of the InUse effect mapping method, introduced by Mijo Balic and Ingrid Domingues (Ottersten), combined with impact maps for training organisations invented by Robert O. Brinkerhoff, the feature injection ideas of Chris Matts and the measurability and iterative delivery ideas by Tom Gilb”.
