Broken authentication and session management in web development
Your website is your brand, your image and first contact with customers. If that website is not safe then your critical business can be at risk. The threats may come in many ways infecting website with malware to spread it to site visitors. A single security breach can be a killer for a small company. Even if security breach in small business doesn’t trigger sensitive data breach, it still can impact on customer trust in view of web development companies. What is Broken...
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Enhancing Scrum Meetings - an important way to manage the SCRUM workflow
What is SCRUM? Scrum, an iterative and incremental Agile methodology was coined from a concept of the game ‘RUGBY’ where the forwards of a team form up with arms interlocked and heads down, and push forward against a similar group from the opposing side. The analogy in a product development process is to work together and move ahead as a team to achieve the goal. The most noteworthy aspect of an Agile methodology is that it does not follow any rigidness. A fully Agile...
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WannaCry Ransomware
A prodigious cyber attacked organisations around the globe using tools stolen from the US NSA (National Security Agency). There are reports of 150 countries affected since Friday which includes Russia and China too. The most serious attack was in the UK on NHS (National Health Service). The ransomware attack happened on Friday and is considered to be one of the biggest so far hitting organisations from Russian Interior Ministry to FedEx, a delivery firm. News are that around 40 NHS...
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Why Poor Planning Can Lead To Project Failure?
What were the causes which resulted in project failure? How to manage software projects in a best way to avoid excessive costs, risks in software development companies? A survey done by KPMG on the Unsuccessful Information Technology Projects revealed that the three most common reasons for project failure are: Poor project planning: A weak project plan and an inadequate risk management approach can lead to project failure. Risk management becomes more important as the organization...
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Learning from our mistakes with Causal Analysis and Resolution
Handling problems and defects in software development projects is difficult in many organizations. The problems’ analyses, when performed, usually do not focus on the problems sources and root causes. As a result, bad decisions are taken and the problem is unsolved. This leads to dissatisfaction, increased costs, and lack of quality. Causal analysis and resolution prevents the introduction of defects into a product by integrating into each phase of the project thereby improving quality...
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