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Part 4 in a series of 17. To start at the beginning, first read Agile vs Fragile: A Disciplined Approach or an Excuse for Chaos.
The second Agile principle focuses on being agile (little “a” in this case).  The primary concept is that change is seen as a positive way to ensure that what you deliver to the customer has the best chance of being correct. Principle two embraces changes, because it would rather make adjustments to timelines and delivery now rather than continue down the wrong path and have to retrace steps.  Read Entire Entry

The client-side system requirements for HP ALM 11.5, HP ALM 11.5 Essentials and HP Quality Center Enterprise 11.5 are outlined in this article, including the minimum hardware requirements, software and OS requirements, supported virtual environments, supported web browsers and Microsoft Office compatibility.

If you plan to install HP ALM 11.5, check out our article that provides step-by-step instructions for an ALM 11.5 installation and our article on the server-side system requirements for HP ALM 11.5.

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This is part 3 in a series of 17. To start at the beginning, first read Agile vs Fragile: A Disciplined Approach or an Excuse for Chaos.
As I have studied and applied Agile practices within my testing teams, I have often referred to the twelve (12) Agile principles.  When you read these principles it is very difficult to find even the slightest bit of issue with them.  In fact, if the majority of teams (whether Agile or not) embraced these principles wholeheartedly, then a majority of projects would be successful.  The problem Read Entire Entry

This is part 2 in a series of 17. To start at the beginning, first read Agile vs Fragile: A Disciplined Approach or an Excuse for Chaos.
As an executive leader of a testing organization of around 750 testers, I had the opportunity to experience many different development methodologies.  Our organization supported multiple software development methodologies including everything from Waterfall to Scrum.  I found it interesting that each team approached the methodology differently.  I found that of the multiple teams that were Read Entire Entry

The server-side system requirements for HP ALM 11.5, HP ALM 11.5 Essentials and HP Quality Center Enterprise 11.5 are outlined in this article, including the minimum hardware requirements, recommended environment configurations, supported operating systems, database servers, application servers, web servers and virtual environments.

If you plan to install HP ALM 11.5, check out our article that provides step-by-step instructions for an ALM 11.5 installation and our article on the client-side system requirements for HP ALM 11 Read Entire Entry

On February 11-13, 2001, a group of seventeen people met at The Lodge at Snowbird ski resort in Utah.  This group shared a common desire to improve their skills on the ski slopes and to improve the software they developed. Their collaboration created the Agile Software Development Manifesto. The participants of this meeting represented different perspectives on software development, but they all agreed that they wanted to develop an alternative to long project cycles. They may have discussed the concepts of what makes a team agile Read Entire Entry

After the official release of HP ALM 11.5 (Application Lifecycle Management), previously known as HP Quality Center (QC), we detailed a step by step single server installation and noted the primary differences (relating to the installation) between version 11.0 and 11.5. The remainder of this article outlines a high level overview of the new features in ALM 11.5. You can also read HP’s official documentation on What’s New in HP ALM 11.5 (Application Lifecycle Management).
Editions
ALM has been divided into four editions:  HP AL Read Entire Entry

During HP Discover, HP announced on June 5th, 2012 the official release of HP ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) 11.5 (formerly known as Quality Center). I am going to outline the new installation process for a single server deployment on a Windows 2008 64-bit server. This guide assumes that all prerequisites have been met and MS SQL Server 2008 R2 (or another supported database server) has been installed or is readily available.
Update:  We recently covered what’s new in ALM 11.5. Make sure the installation environment meet Read Entire Entry

For those of you who missed our presentation at HP Discover, we were able to get a recording of it from the audience perspective. We now have it online for you to watch at your convenience.
Here is Part One:

HP Discover Presentation Part 1 from Scott Moore on Vimeo.

And here is Part Two:

HP Discover Presentation Part 2 from Scott Moore on Vimeo.

Enjoy!

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As an HP Elite partner, Northway Solutions Group has the opportunity to do implementations of HP ALM and QC 11.X for our clients.  One of the biggest challenges that any company has when implementing is a new tool is leveraging the tool in a way that optimizes the value that the tool brings to the organization.  The company often struggles to learn how best to use the tool, and many times lacks the basic organizational “best practices” that would enable them to be effective right out of the gate with the new solution.  Members Read Entire Entry