Software development is a key driver of innovation throughout the global economy. From automobiles to cell phones, thermostats, and medical devices, software provides key differentiating capabilities. Software has played a key role in the greatest advances of the past decade from the Industrial Internet of Things to genetic sequencing, computer vision, robotic surgery, and autonomous vehicles. Looking forward, software development will continue to power innovation in products and services.
Agility - Respond rapidly to evolving customer and market needs. Agile practices optimize agility through short sprints and frequent deliveries.
Analytics - Capture and analyze team metrics that align activities with the highest priorities and establish a foundation for continuous improvement.
Change Management - Manage changes to requirements, code, and test assets to rapidly cascade changes through the team. Branch and merge assets to easily create variants.
Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD) - Merge code changes into a shared repository that is integrated, compiled, tested, and delivered at regular intervals, accelerating software delivery.
DevOps - Adopt automated, repeatable release management processes that accelerate the delivery of value to customers.
Security - Manage the chain of custody and authorization of strategic software assets through audit trails, e-signatures, and other governance techniques.
Requirements Management - Iteratively analyze and define the scope of a solution and develop detailed specifications.
Test and Quality Management - Validate and verify results at each stage to improve outcomes and reduce the cost of quality.
Release planning - Plan and manage the distribution of software to end users.