Don’t Let an Outdated Software Strategy Hold You Back

Whether you think of it in terms of digital transformation, improving the customer experience, enabling new business initiatives, or simply keeping up with ever more dynamic markets, many organizations have realized that software is now crucial to their future success. That in turn focuses attention on improving the software delivery process, and indeed on the entire software lifecycle. This paper presents an effective way for organizations to think about and operationalize software delivery processes. Referred to as the “Modern Software Factory” by our sponsor CA Technologies, and validated via a global research study carried out in early Summer 2017, it is a blueprint for weaving software into the DNA of your business. In practical terms, it is about embracing the principles of agility, automation, insights and security.

Content Contributors: Dale Vile & Bryan Betts

Bryan Betts

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Bryan is a technology enthusiast and industry veteran. He has been analysing, explaining and writing about IT and business in a highly engaging manner for around three decades. His experience spans the early days of minicomputers and PC technology, through the emergence of cellular data and smart mobile devices, to the latest developments of the software-defined age in which we all live today. Over his career, Bryan has seen at first-hand how IT changes the world – and how the world changes IT – and he brings that extensive insight to his role as an industry analyst.

Dale Vile

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Dale is a co-founder of Freeform Dynamics, and today runs the company. As part of this, he oversees the organisation’s industry coverage and research agenda, which tracks technology trends and developments, along with IT-related buying behaviour among mainstream enterprises, SMBs and public sector organisations.