FEATURE

Achieve business success with accurate software planning: Software development estimation strategies

Manage risk and expectations within your organization with credible, defensible estimates. Learn how Borland® CaliberRM™ can help you to optimize the planning, execution, and management of software delivery across all roles, teams, and technology platforms.
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WHITE PAPERS

Improve distributed team productivity: Breakthrough efficiencies in software development

Software development organizations that rely on multisite teams face specific challenges that, when not anticipated or controlled, can expose projects to unacceptable levels of risk. This paper discusses how Borland® StarTeam® helps organizations manage the risk inherent in software development projects that use remote teams.
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Transforming Software Development into a Managed Business Process

Maximize business opportunities, directing requirements and priorities downstream using a unique process- and role-centric approach. By converging management and software delivery processes, your development team can increase its success rate across products, and your operations team can more effectively transition software services to end users.
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Integrating Borland® Deployment Op-Center with enterprise events management systems

Borland® Deployment Op-Center centralizes configuration, control, and availability assurance of software components for distributed applications. It performs the same role for managing enterprise infrastructure software and application components as a network operations center does for the hardware and routing components of a network.
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"If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail": Requirements-based Unified Modeling Language™ (UML™)

Requirements-based UML is a structured approach for incorporating business-oriented requirements analysis into a UML-centric development method. It balances the need for non-technical business analysis against the need for the structured technical approach defined in UML. Furthermore, it identifies business requirements analysis as a precursor to software-centric use case modeling efforts.
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Collaborative teams and effective project management with Borland® Delphi® 2005 and StarTeam®

Deliver higher-quality software with more control during the project lifecycle.
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BORLAND RESOURCE CENTER

• To All Enterprise Developers: Tear The Barriers Down (PDF)
  Transform ad-hoc software development into a manageable, predictable process that lets you spend more time coding and less time responding to knee-jerk change requests.

• Access the Borland Developer Network

CASE STUDIES

• APIR® chooses Borland® for scalability and security
  APIR® deployed an industry-accepted, scalable solution that reduced development costs and improved accuracy of business requirements modeling.

• Borland® solutions automate HealtheTech™
  HealtheTech™ experienced productivity out of the box and is better able to meet compliance requirements.

• Borland® modernizes Mercy Ship's Development
  Mercy Ships now experiences improved productivity, increased flexibility and usability.

• Borland® helps Army deliver early, under budget
  The Army increased their IT capacity, delivered their first application early, and reduced development costs.

WEBINAR

Managing Risk for Software Delivery Optimization

Join leading enterprise risk-management authority, Dr. Robert Charette, and Borland VP of Process Management, Don Oxley, as they address risk factors and explain how your IT team can:

• Spot the early warning signs of acute software delivery risk
• Take a proactive control of risk management with a solid, step-by-step action plan
• Leverage process improvement and organization change to minimize risk
• Evaluate today's best technology solutions for managing risk

ASSESS YOUR COMPANY'S RISK LEVEL
Following the webcast, you'll be given access to an online "Managing Risk Self-Assessment" which will help apply best practices and address your company's specific risk factors.

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RISK ASSESSMENT ONLINE TOOL

This online tool goes beyond theory and into practice. You can apply a current project or program to this self-assessment and take the first step to managing the points of risk facing your team.

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