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Your company has jumped into Agile software development (Scrum is used in this example), standups are happening, and the IT team stood up a Jenkins server last week. Soon the builds will be kicked off at each check-in and some automated tests will be run. Does that mean you are doing Continuous Inte...

Certainly we have all heard of The Law of Diminishing Returns; the marginal utility decreases over time approaching a asymptote and/or becoming negative (see right). However, this law does not apply to all situations and all times, including when sorely needed improvements have been postponed due to...

The terms verification and confirmation are often confused. ISO 26262 refers to verification and confirmation as two types of work product verification activities with different purposes. So confirmation is verification but not the other way around. Throw in the term validation and the confusion gro...

Agile company? Is an agile company not a contradiction in itself? Overhead makes every organization inertial, does it not? Everybody has painful memories of how slow and rigid some organizations can be.

When striving for compliance with the automotive standards ISO 26262 and Automotive SPICE, a smart approach to better software component quality is to set a common definition of a software unit. Unfortunately, neither standard provides much guidance. Companies striving to comply with these standards...

When reviewing an RFQ for new business, it is important to search for two key phrases. These phrases should set off red lights and alarm bells, especially if no supporting analysis is overtly provided by your customer in the RFQ package to clarify them. They are: