Harnessing Change: How to Anticipate, Accommodate, and Leverage Change to Provide Competitive Advantage Through Software Development

Overview

To excel in today's business climate, organizations must continually deliver differentiated products and services that provide high business value. Even the most successful enterprises can experience failure because they unsuccessfully manage change in software development. This paper discusses how organizations that develop software can take steps to manage change proactively in order to reach business objectives. It also describes how organizations can leverage change as a tool by applying the Borland Software Delivery Optimization strategy - a combination of process and measurement services from Borland, effective project and requirements management, and software change and configuration management technologies that help turn change into advantage.