New Standish Group CHAOS Report:
68% of Projects Fail
Worst Failure Rates in a Decade Tracked in Industry Survey		  
The latest survey results for software project success have been released by the Standish Group in their 2009 CHAOS Report. "This year's results show a marked decrease in project success rates, with 32% of all projects succeeding which are delivered on time, on budget, with required features and functions" says Jim Johnson, chairman of The Standish Group, "44% were challenged which are late, over budget, and/or with less than the required features and functions and 24% failed which are cancelled prior to completion or delivered and never used."

"These numbers represent a downtick in the success rates from the previous study, as well as a significant increase in the number of failures", says Jim Crear, Standish Group CIO, "They are low point in the last five study periods. This year's results represent the highest failure rate in over a decade"

 
   Customer News
HealthMEDX Uses iRise Software to 'Visualize' New Healthcare Products

HealthMEDX, an Ozark, Mo.-based software provider, has signed on to use visualization software from iRise to help develop customer relationship management, census, clinical electronic health record and financial information products for its core customer base of more than 3,300 extended care facilities.

“iRise is a critical part of our strategy to improve product quality and gain competitive advantage in an industry that is undergoing incredible transformation,” said Jim Atteberry, CEO of HealthMEDX, in a press release. “The single biggest issue with delivering software is communications. The greatest leverage that iRise enables is improving communications at the front-end of the process, which will help us eliminate rework and speed delivery.”

   Press Coverage
Dan Woods of Forbes.com Discusses the Paradigm Shift Happening Because of Visualization

The modern development paradigm has shifted from the waterfall model, in which the creators of software pretend they know what is needed up front, to agile development, in which software designers admit they don't know what is needed and then gather as much information as fast as possible (see "The Humble Developer").

This week the JargonSpy argues that so-called high-fidelity user-interface simulation techniques accelerate software development, reduce the cost of running an agile development cycle and improve the quality of feedback. This should be big news for anyone spending even a small amount of money-developing software for end-users.

   Product News
iRise & OneSpring Update Apple iPhone Visualization Content
iRise® and OneSpring have announced the immediate availability of an updated version of the world’s only simulation templates for the Apple iPhone that allow developers and business stakeholders to fully experience a new generation of e-commerce mobile applications prior to any development.

Developed by iRise partner OneSpring, “iRise for iPhones”™ gives the ability to quickly prototype the look, feel and behavior of iPhone applications, including screen transitions, typing, sliding, etc., before any coding, saving time during product ideation and speeding up delivery of finished apps. For the first time, iRise for iPhones is now free for download direct from iRise and OneSpring.

First released in 2008, iRise for iPhones has been used to simulate a wide range of native iPhone apps including finance, automotive, medical, employment and education. Internet healthcare start-up inforMediq is one example.

  Partner News
iRise & Ascendant Technology Ship Visualization Solution for IBM® WebSphere Commerce Applications

iRise for IBM® WebSphere Commerce is a pre-configured set of visualization templates that gives businesses a unique way to visualize new e-Commerce applications based on IBM solutions. Both iRise and Atech are selling iRise for IBM WebSphere Commerce. The iRise for IBM WebSphere Commerce product is a set of reusable simulation and prototyping assets that can be quickly customized for specific stand-alone implementations or integrated within WebSphere Portal applications, without having to perform a technical proof of concept, saving money and time.

  Company News
In Her SearchSoftwareQuality.com Blog, Jan Stafford Discusses How Visualization Enables Picture-Perfect Requirements

In this post, Jan shares excerpts from her interview with application visualization expert, Maurice Martin, president, COO and founder of iRise. Application visualization is a paradigm-changing technology and approach for software development, in Martin’s opinion. Business analysts are no longer just reviewing text requirements, they’re “now rapidly iterating functional prototypes directly in front of the business stakeholders,” he told me. Until business analysts, developers and users can see, interact with and fully experience the application, they can really only guess at the requirements, Martin said and then continued...

   iRise Web Seminar
Going Mobile: From Concept to App Store at Warp Speed

Scott McDowell, Co-founder and Managing Partner, OneSpring LLC
Thursday, June 18th at 10:00am PDT/ 1:00pm EST

 Let's say your CMO has a new idea for delivering your company's latest branded product to the iPhone or Android platform and you have less than six weeks until the application is ready for download. Where do you begin? In this Web seminar, we will look at how iRise strategic partner OneSpring used their own custom built iPhone asset library to dramatically speed up ideation, design and delivery of mobile applications. By visualizing before writing a single line of code, OneSpring empowered business stakeholders to fully experience e-Commerce mobile applications before any coding, saving weeks of time and giving developers an exact roadmap for what to build.

To find out more and to register: Click Here

   iRise Product News
Icon iDoc Now Available for Free Download

An extremely useful iDoc has just been made available for free download. The Icon iDoc contains 1,000 16x16 pixel icons for use in iRise visualizations. The collection includes search functionality, making the right icon easy to find. And once you've found your icon you can "tag" images to improve your searches and create your own collections. You also have the ability to adding new icons to the group.

To learn more and to download: Click Here

   April Newsletter Contest Details
CONTEST QUESTIONS:

1. In the "read more" link of the CHAOS Numbers lead story, the 1st paragraph says "New Standish Group report shows _______?

2. On the June 18th Web Seminar registration page, how many bullet-points are there in the description?

3. On this page of the iDoc Library, how many iDocs are available for download?

4. At the very beginning of the IBM Rational South Park parody video, the opening text says: "Venetian Hotel, Las Vegas, morning after __________"?

CLICK HERE to submit your answers (sends email to dci@irise.com). One reader who answers all four questions correctly will be chosen at random as the winner. Answers must be submitted by June 14th. Winner will be notified by June 20th. Good luck!

  
To celebrate the re-launch of the iRise newsletter, we're giving away an 8gb iPod Touch this month to one lucky reader. All you have to do is send us the answers to the four questions listed at the bottom of the newsletter. The answers can be found in this edition of Visualize, or in the associated links.

Scroll down to the bottom of this newsletter to find the questions. Your answers must be submitted by June 14th. One entry per person. Good luck!

 
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