Just as Supportability, Maintainability is one of these Non Functional Requirements, that is or should be required from every software development project. So what does that mean? Wikipedia defines it as the ease with which a software product can be modified in order to: correct defects meet new requirements make future maintenance easier, or cope [...]
When reading the specification of a piece of software to be written, you are bound to find some non functional requirements. Among these there will be, or at least should be Supportability. But what the heck does that mean? How do you install supportability? Let me present some ideas, what you can do to improve [...]
For about a decade now everybody in IT talks about Agile, but hardly anybody else does. There is a somewhat similar concept of ‘Lean’ in other industries, but hardly anybody in a ‘real’ industry considers things like ‘release early’ a viable strategy. And that’s a good thing. I don’t want a second iteration car. “Ooops [...]