Coveros CTO Tom Stiehm on Building Secure Software
October 31, 2011
On November 10th Tom Stiehm, Coveros CTO, will be presenting at the Better Software 2011 Conference in Orlando, FL. Tom will present on how 'Building Secure Applications'. Join Tom to explore real-world security controls he’s applied to commonly used application frameworks. Find out how to map security vulnerabilities to the security controls that manage those vulnerabilities and where to place those controls in your framework.
Coveros CEO Jeff Payne on Fundamentals of Agile Certification
October 3, 2011
Coveros CEO Jeff Payne will present at the STARWEST 2011 Conference in Anaheim, CA. Fundamentals of Agile Certification will present a roadmap for how to get started with agile along with practical advice. It will introduce you to agile software development concepts and teach you how to make them work. You will learn what agile is all about, why agile works, and how to effectively plan and develop software using agile principles.
Coveros announces the formation of Coveros Labs
June 23, 2011
Coveros, the market leader in the delivery of secure, reliable software, announced the formation of Coveros Labs (research.coveros.com) – a research laboratory focused on developing innovative technologies to enable secure software applications.
Coveros CEO Jeff Payne on "Balancing Agility and Security"
March 9, 2011
Coveros CEO Jeff Payne is interviewed and dives into the subject of "Balancing Agility and Security" in software.
Federal government solution provider
Developed an aligned strategy and implementable road map for the leading DoD software Information Assurance product.
Objective
Develop a plan to re-architect a deployed software product. Provide visibility and transparency into the development process to allow product management and company leadership the ability to prioritize and make decisions on resource allocation to numerous competing software product demands.
Background
Our customer is the leading software product provider for Information Assurance (IA) to the Federal Government. Information Assurance plays a critical role in measuring and managing the governance, risk, and compliance of government and commercial computing systems. The product provides automation, enforcement, and continuous monitoring to manage enterprise security risks and identify action to correct them; a mission critical function in todays highly networked world. The client IA product has been successfully deployed to provide assurance to dozens of the nations most critical computing systems. The client team needed a way to enhance their requirements definition process to increase flexibility and visibility to enable more informed priority decision-making.
What we did
Coveros led a 6-week facilitated requirements envisioning process. Our consultants conducted a series of short, intense facilitated interactions with key product management, business, and technology stakeholders. From these sessions our team elicited the broad vision for the new software application, defined the requirements, determined level of development effort, and facilitated the client through prioritizing the order of developing the applications features. Light weight prototyping was used extensively to support the process by providing a visual representation of the requirements discussion. Captured requirements, manifested as user stories, were used as the foundation for construction of the release plan.
Coveros pragmatic approach to use of agile methodology approaches for requirements capture allowed the client to gain in a short period of time a clear understanding of the project and a plan to start development.
Results
- Reduced the elapsed time required to define the products requirements by 50% versus traditional approaches.
- Via structured facilitation allowed product line managers to manage continuance of their market facing responsibilities during the planning process.
- Produced a plan that prioritized the highest business value for delivery first and eliminated waste of 'nice to have' features
