Parasoft Enhances Automated Requirements Traceability for Regulatory Compliance , January 2012

Parasoft Concerto's requirements traceability helps organizations prove adherence to industry standards such as DO-178B, FDA/IEC 62304 and ISO 26262

Great expectations for development—with policy automation , SD Times, July 2011

Automated policy enforcement and monitoring brings law and order to the development environment, reducing rework and focusing limited resources by ensuring that your expectations are enforced in a standardized way across the development group.

Inomed Case Study , May 2011 - 152 KB PDF

Inomed wanted to streamline the risk management processes they established for IEC 62304 medical device software certification. Learn how they increased efficiency through automation—and also achieved full requirements traceability.

Agile Development Quality Practices & Techniques: Session 3 , March 2011

This third and last of three 30-minute sessions teaches best practices for development, testing, and management in an Agile environment.

Agile Development Quality Practices & Techniques: Session 2 , March 2011

This second of three 30-minute sessions teaches best practices for development, testing, and management in an Agile environment.

Software Development Standards Compliance Starter Kit , March 2011

This 25 page eKit introduces proven strategies for controlling safety risks and complying with FDA, DO-178B, MISRA, JSF, PCI-DSS, ISO, IEC, or other guidelines.

Agile Development Quality Practices & Techniques: Session 1 , March 2011

This first of three 30-minute sessions teaches best practices for development, testing, and management in an Agile environment.

Parasoft Concerto Software Development Management , January 2011

Introduces Parasoft Concerto, a complete software development management platform that ensures quality software can be produced consistently and efficiently–in any language.

Software Development Productivity Audit , January 2011

An independent audit found that Parasoft's development team is 8-15X more productive than the industry average.

New SD Times Articles on Software Development Management , December 2010

Introduces 2 SD Times articles: one on how to increase software development management and one about the Parasoft Concerto ALM platform.

Increase Agile Development Productivity eBook , December 2010

This 6-page Agile Project Management guide offers 4 tips for achieving greater efficiency in Agile development projects...up to 10X.

Parasoft SDLC Productivity Audit , November 2010

An independent audit found that Parasoft's agile development team, using Parasoft's application lifecycle management solution (Concerto), is 8-15X more productive than the industry average.

Software Development Management: Optimizing Project Task Management , November 2010

How software development project task management improves development and QA productivity.

Four ways to increase productivity , SD Times, November 2010

The software development life cycle is riddled with inefficiencies; this article introduces 4 ways to achieve astonishing increases in productivity

Parasoft Concerto Technical Sheet , November 2010

This technical sheet details Parasoft Concerto's supported methodologies, practices, and integrations (requirements management, source code repositories, build management, continuous integration systems, test management, bug tracking, IDEs, etc.).

Parasoft Concerto Data Sheet , November 2010

This data sheet introduces Parasoft Concerto, a complete Software Development Management platform that ensures quality software can be produced consistently and efficiently...in any language.

Parasoft Announces a new release of Concerto , November 2010

Parasoft announced the latest release of Parasoft Concerto, which leverages Parasoft's integrated automated testing capabilities to deliver objective and timely feedback on the flow of development activities–with the goal of enhancing productivity while delivering more consistent releases.

Code Review and Requirements Review: Automating Human Review Tasks , November 2010

How to automate human review processes such as peer code review and requirements review to increase software development productivity and defect prevention.

Software Development Management: Meeting Expectations , November 2010

How software development teams can satisfy management’s expectation about what defines a completed requirement.

Achieving Software Development Productivity Naturally , October 2010

Explains how to to achieve greater levels of developer productivity with a natural software development management process.

Software Development Process Improvement: The Time is Now , October 2010

Why and how to optimize the software development processes to improve quality and efficiency—even while rapidly evolving applications in response to constantly-changing business needs.

Parasoft Concerto Ties Agile Development and Management to Automated Defect Prevention, End-to-End QA Testing , September 2010

Parasoft announced Parasoft Concerto for Agile, which ensures greater productivity and more predictable outcomes by extending flexible project & task management with a continuous quality process that spans across the entire SDLC

Agile Project Management Solution , July 2010

This page introduces the Agile Project Management solution, which simplifies the process of rapidly and continuously delivering high-quality software.

What is Parasoft Concerto? , July 2010

3-minute introduction to Parasoft Concerto, a complete Software Development Management platform that ensures quality software can be produced consistently and efficiently–in any language.

Parasoft Concerto Tutorials and Demos for Users , June 2010

Provides step-by-step demonstrations of how to complete common Concerto actions, such as creating and working with projects, tasks, iterations, and tests.

What's New in Parasoft Concerto 4 , June 2010

Parasoft CEO Adam Kolawa presents the new features in Parasoft Concerto 4, a complete Software Development Management platform that ensures quality software can be produced consistently and efficiently–in any language.

Parasoft Concerto: What's New , May 2010

This 45-minute webinar explains how Concerto helps organizations 1) Plan and track requirements, defects, tasks and tests; 2) Avoid rework by preventing and exposing software defects early; and 3) Test and validate business and technical requirements through integrated QA.

New Parasoft Concerto: Development Done Right , May 2010

Parasoft Concerto 4.0 introduces pre-configured system and process templates for common market or industry standards. The pre-configured templates ensure compliance to management's expectations while driving unprecedented levels of SDLC productivity and application quality.

Agile Development Requires Agile Processes , Parasoft White Paper, March 2010

Highlights how organizations can optimize their software development processes to improve quality and efficiency—even as they are rapidly evolving applications in response to constantly-changing business needs

Increase Software Development Productivity: Equations for Efficiency , Parasoft White Paper, February 2010

Presents one simple equation for assessing your team’s current efficiency level, then four formulas for improving it.

Technologies that Make Developers’ Lives Easier , Parasoft White Paper, November 2009

Introduces technologies that help developers prevent & expose the most elusive errors, eliminate tedious meetings, and test incomplete systems.

Productivity vs. Quality: Achieving Measurable Results through Proper Workflow Management , November 2009 - 489 KB PDF

Explains how to achieve both productivity and quality by making quality tasks an integrated part of your daily development process.

Rethinking Software , Forbes, July 2009

Explores why writing and fixing applications remains a persistent pain point for most companies.

How to Fix The Productivity Problem That's Killing the Software Industry , CIO, March 2009

Antiquated software development methods strangle innovation and hobble business recovery effort. It's time that IT departments boost development productivity–and it's not that hard.

The Next Leap In Productivity , February 2009

This book explains how to survive in today's economy by making IT more productive, then leveraging that into improved productivity at the enterprise level— resulting in dramatically reduced operating costs.

SOA Adopters Retrospective Report: Quality Considerations in the Primary Phase , Parasoft White Paper, January 2009

Survey findings: From a quality perspective, the failure to adequately plan for and invest in SOA quality impeded organizations' ability to fully realize the expected ROI of their initial SOA initiative.

Software Quality Needs to be a Continuous Process , SearchSOA.com, November 2008

Explains how establishing a continuous process that helps the team build quality and security into the software not only reduces defects and debugging, but also optimizes QA time and significantly improves team productivity.

How Better Software Can Save the World , CIO, October 2008

Achieving a quantum leap in IT productivity isn't merely possible–it's absolutely essential.

Ensuring Quality in a SOA , July 2008 - 56 KB PDF

Details how SOA challenges evolve at the organizational scale and what infrastructure is needed for business risk mitigation. (Part 3 of 3)

Setting a Baseline for Trust with Service-Oriented Architecture , July 2008 - 759 KB PDF

Explains why trust is essential for achieving the forecasted benefits of SOA, including reuse. (Part 2 of 3)

Changing Tires on a Moving Car , July 2008

This recorded webinar features case studies and solutions for governing the continuous evolution of complex business systems.

The Future of Quality Lies in Productivity , SD Times, May 2008

Explains how a productive workflow can make or break a quality initiative focus on productivity by helping the team work smarter, and the team will deliver better software faster.

Whipping the QA Process Into SOA Shape , E-Commerce Times, April 2008

Details strategies to improve the QA process for SOA by providing visibility and promoting bottom-up quality.

Who's Responsible for SOA Quality in a Service-Oriented Architecture? , SOA World Magazine, January 2008

Discusses how the complexities of the SOA environment impact development and QA roles and responsibilities.

Software Development Management with Parasoft Concerto , Parasoft White Paper, January 2008 - 72 KB PDF

Explains how the Parasoft Concerto Software Development Management solution assists to increase productivity throughout the SDLC.

Parasoft Concerto: Providing Management Insight and Control , Parasoft White Paper, January 2008

Explains how Parasoft Concerto provides management an objective assessment of the project as well as helps them optimize the three fundamental variables involved in effective software development management: functionality, deadline, and budget.

Automated Defect Prevention Introduction , December 2007 - 1,454 KB PDF

This booklet introduces the key concepts featured in the book Automated Defect Prevention: Best Practices in Software Development. It is designed to provide you an overview of what Automated Defect Prevention involves and how it can benefit your development team.

Defect Prevention , Visual Studio Magazine, December 2007

Use Automated Defect Prevention as a software management strategy that increases application quality through process improvement

Unlocking the Power of Automation: Exclusive Q&A with Dr Adam Kolawa , SOA World Magazine, December 2007

Discusses how Automated Defect Prevention (ADP) an approach to software development and management that makes quality a continuous process throughout the software development lifecycle gives developers more time to focus on the creative tasks they enjoy most.

What Is the Best Measure of Software Development Productivity? , ECN, November 2007

Defines a simple yet effective productivity metric: the total number lines of code in the organization divided by the number of people who are working on that code.

Quality Assurance for SOA Through Process Cadence , The SOA Magazine, May 2007

Explores what's needed to bring an organization's quality process in alignment with the world of SOA.

Taming the SOA Beast , eCommerce Times, March 2007

Explains how a visible and measurable quality process mitigates risk, increases trust and ultimately promotes reuse.

Achieving Quality with SOA , ebizQ, April 2006

Argues that to ensure secure, reliable, compliant SOAs, the SOA quality process must morph towards the quality process used for embedded systems.

Trusting Reusable Business Components in SOA and Web Services , SOA World, February 2006

Explains why the success of SOA depends upon an implementation plan for a robust and objective quality process.

Putting the SOA Infrastructure Together: Lessons from SOA Leaders , SOA Leaders Council Whitepaper, October 2005 - 117 KB PDF

SOA leaders lay out a practical approach to implementing an enterprise SOA.

Getting the Most From Your Quality Initiatives , Computerworld, April 2004

Explores the real problem with process improvement initiatives there is no practical way to get them off the page and into your software development life cycle and proposes solutions.

Love Bugs? , SD Times, August 2003

Argues that bugs aren't so bad because they provide a prime opportunity to improve software quality.

Why Aren't We Doing More to Prevent Errors? , Computerworld, August 2003

Argues that the software industry can and must do more to prevent errors.

What Can Be Done about Software Reliability? , Stickyminds.com, May 2003

When an error is found in an application during development, the automated error prevention method helps you correlate that error to a specific point in the development process, and allows you to modify your processes to remove it, and more important, to prevent it from happening again. Preventing errors, rather than chasing them, dramatically improves software reliability. This way, you can stay competitive and not risk your valuable reputation on unforeseen bugs.

Reducing the 80/20 Rule and Increasing Developer Productivity , WebSphere Developer's Journal, April 2003

Explains that developers spend 80% of their time debugging applications and 20% writing new code..and offers tips for achieving a more productive ration of coding to debugging.

Building Solid Software , CIO, August 2002

Other industries have learned to incorporate better production methods into their manufacturing processes to ensure quality in their products why isn't the software industry doing the same?