In this decade we have seen a three-way collision between the quest for business transformation through innovation, the need for improved software quality to manage business risk, and the demand to reduce costs for economic survival.

The industry's shift to collaborative teamwork across geographically distributed teams, coupled with automated processes and reporting to support actionable governance, is changing the face of quality software delivery.

This whitepaper examines the delicate balance in managing business transformation versus risk, why the paradigm shift is occurring and how best-in-class clients of IBM are stepping out in front to face and overachieve in software time-to-market, cost reduction and improved software quality.