January 2011

Leveraging Agile in an ALM World

By PTC_Integrity Blog | Published: January 31, 2011

A common perception is that going Agile is the panacea for large project failings. Agile sounds wonderful. It makes perfect sense, right? “Shorter cycles giving rapid feedback and faster time to market”, “Constant re-prioritization allowing agility as business priorities… Continue reading →

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From Technical Competence to Technical Excellence

By PTC_Integrity Blog | Published: January 28, 2011

This past Tuesday at the Communitech Agile P2P session, Kevin Tureski from Kevin Tureski Consulting, held a very engaging discussion about his past experience at Alias during their transition to Agile. It is unfortunate that there was no time for questions at the end, but the stories were all riveting… Continue reading →

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Requirements Management in an Agile World – Yes it does make sense!

By PTC_Integrity Blog | Published: January 27, 2011

The main benefit of today’s Agile development methodologies such as Scrum or XP is the promise of delivering working software in a shorter period of time and the value derived from having the flexibility to adjust which features need to be implemented for the next iteration or release. But does this type of approach allow for… Continue reading →

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Putting the Social Back in Social: Collaborative Product Development

By Erin Daly | Published: January 26, 2011

The other day, one of my Twitter contacts shared an article from Abhay Prasad, Senior Manager at Cisco, on the “Value of Social Software in Manufacturing” (published in Manufacturing Business Technology). The piece was an interesting look at the potential benefits of social technology across the manufacturing value chain. It said a lot of things I agree with – a …

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Integrating Thinking Adds Power to Mathcad’s Symbolics

By Nancy Pardo | Published: January 26, 2011

Recently, the Mathcad Team was mulling over a user inquiry about the following integral: How would you evaluate this integral? It is easy enough by hand if you know the calculus. Having spent much of my life introducing concepts like integration to middle and high school students, I might think of it this way: At this point you are probably …

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Agile Programming: Building Applications Your Users Are Sure to Like

By PTC_Integrity Blog | Published: January 25, 2011

Agile programming has gained significant momentum recently by changing the way in which organizations develop software. When I was first introduced to agile programming a few years ago by a colleague, I politely listened to his enthusiastic description, but it really… Continue reading →

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Mathcad Licensing – Part 2

By Brent Edmonds | Published: January 21, 2011

I’m back! My first blog on the Mathcad 15.0 licensing process generated such excitement and enthusiasm that I was called for an encore…. Well, not really. Unfortunately we get enough questions about how to get a new license, or regenerate an old license, or how to move a license from one computer to another, and many other frequently asked questions …

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Do You Really Know Mathcad?

By Alan Belniak | Published: January 18, 2011

Last week, I saw this post on Twitter: “So who really knows to use Mathcad?”. I replied routing this guy to the Mathcad community on PlanetPTC. I could have also sent him here, as all you guys who follow and interact with us through this blog are certainly experts in their respective fields.   However, what exactly is your field? With …

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Exploring Mathcad With an eTextbook

By Alan Belniak | Published: January 16, 2011

The eTextbook Paradigm One of the hottest technology trends in academia is the eTextbook. Both the mainstream media and the blog space are making bold predictions about the pace with which this technology will revolutionize higher education. The recent releases of numerous new competitors in the tablet PC market will surely increase both the demand for and the buzz surrounding …

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Mathcad Prime 1.0 is Officially Launched!

By Alan Belniak | Published: January 11, 2011

Last week I let everyone know we were close to launching Mathcad Prime 1.0. As of yesterday, I am happy to announce that Mathcad Prime 1.0 is officially launched and available to order. The next generation of Mathcad, Mathcad Prime 1.0 delivers a new tasked-based user interface, within a document-centric calculations environment, enabling engineers to focus on developing engineering calculations …

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