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BCB Business Case Builder for Software Development Lifecycle
Chances are your organization will reap competitive advantages and save a bundle once it upgrades the way software development is managed. This free, customizable Software Development Lifecycle Business Case Builder is designed to help you determine which solutions will maximize the business value of your software.

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Harnessing Change
Intensifying demand to quickly and accurately achieve corporate objectives means IT organizations must cope with a continuous barrage of changes. This white paper explores strategies for dealing with change using the best combination of people, process, and technology.


Basic Metrics For Requirements Management
Many projects lack even the simplest requirements-related measurements to help manage the project to successful completion, avoid rework, control scope, or manage change during the project. This white paper presents a simple set of requirements-related metrics that projects can adopt when adding requirements management practices to their development processes.


MDA,® MDD, and Practical Modeling Adoption Strategies
If you're interested in introducing Model Driven Development into your organization, this white paper explores model driven architecture in all its guises. See how to get immediate, practical benefits using Model Driven Development, and walk through the steps to get your organization to embrace it.


Model Driven Development™: A collection of best practices
Have you been wondering what model driven development is all about? This white paper describes key best practices for this iterative approach to software development and explains why Borland Together provides the best platform to support MDD projects.


Borland Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) for Eclipse
Eclipse, the open-source integrated development environment, is much more than a free Java IDE. Read about how Borland's Application Lifecycle Management solutions deliver the synergistic integration today's development teams need to succeed.


24 x 7 Borland® StarTeam®: A Practical Look At High Availability
Find out how to prepare a comprehensive high-availability plan for your organization's use of StarTeam, beginning with a review of general high availability issues. Then you'll move on to specific strategies and options that provide the level of availability your organization needs.


Optimizing Borland® StarTeam®: The Best Techniques For Supporting Distributed Teams
What are the best techniques for supporting distributed teams with StarTeam? This white paper tackles problems with replication, the case for supporting your organization with centralized StarTeam repositories, and how new StarTeam features address responsiveness, limited network bandwidth, and even unreliable networks.


Collaborative Teams And Effective Project Management With Borland® Delphi® 2005 And StarTeam®
Ensuring reliable team collaboration and a dependable audit trail has become an important part of managing application delivery. This white paper focuses on the collaboration capabilities integrated into Borland Delphi 2005 and on using StarTeam change and configuration management solutions in the software development process.


Using Borland® Deployment Op-Center To Manage CaliberRM™, StarTeam®, And Mercury TestDirector® Server Environments
Maintaining the availability and control of highly distributed and heterogeneous software applications can be tough. Discover how CaliberRM™, StarTeam®, and Mercury TestDirector® server environments can be monitored and maintained using Borland® Deployment Op-Center.


EBOOK
The Official Desk Reference for Managing Change The Official Desk Reference for Managing Change
Learn how Software Delivery Optimization™ enables you to manage the changes that challenge your software development processes. This online tool puts theory into practice and shows you how SDO™ helps lower costs, accelerate build times, and reduce risk.

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FEATURED WHITEPAPERS
Leveraging Change as a Competitive Differentiator Leveraging Change as a Competitive Differentiator
Need a systematic way to manage change? This solution blueprint will show you how Borland's platform-independent Change Management Solutions can transform your organization's ability to anticipate, plan for, and accommodate changes in requirements, software processes, and technology.
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The Borland Change Responsiveness Assessment Site The Borland Change Responsiveness Assessment Site
Address the challenge of managing change with a Change Responsiveness Scorecard that can help you judge the effectiveness of your organization's change management capabilities and infrastructure and compare it to the best in the business. Then use the Scorecard to improve your performance without sapping your organization's creativity and productivity.
WEBCAST
InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives TechWebCast — From Risk Mitigation to Risk Optimization

Date: Thursday, December 8, 2005
Time: 11:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM CT / 2:00 PM ET
Duration: One hour


Enterprises traditionally consider risk as an inhibitor of organizational performance. They focus on controlling risk by adopting best practice risk mitigation techniques. However, most of these techniques take a narrow view of risk, and consequently, fail to provide the enterprises with the control they need to enable responsible risk taking. This Live Webcast provides Gartner recommendations on best practice industry models and process improvement strategies and Borland will present a new paradigm for risk optimization that is based on these best practice industry models and leverages people, process and technology.

Participants will learn:
  • A framework for identifying risks at multiple levels in your organization and the inter-relationship
  • Conventional approaches to risk and the reason these are not effective
  • A multi-model approach to address risk, that leverages several best practice industry model
WEBCAST
Case Study - Verizon Wireless Verizon Wireless
Check out how this wireless network serving more than 47 million voice and data customers built a world-class website software development team. As a result of its operational excellence, the team is 20 percent more efficient that its next closest competitor.
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