The Object Management Group's Decision Model Notation

Curt Hall

The Object Management Group (OMG) has published the initial version of its decision model and notation (DMN) specification.


Hadoop as a Data Staging Platform

Curt Hall

The use of Hadoop in support of data warehousing and BI analytics efforts is still a relatively new development for many mainstream businesses. Some organizations, however, are implementing Hadoop in order to supplement their data warehousing and BI environments with its extreme processing capabilities.


Hadoop as a Data Staging Platform

Curt Hall

The use of Hadoop in support of data warehousing and BI analytics efforts is still a relatively new development for many mainstream businesses. Some organizations, however, are implementing Hadoop in order to supplement their data warehousing and BI environments with its extreme processing capabilities.


There Ought to Be a Law

Jim Love

One of the benefits of having worked in both product management and technology for over 35 years is that you gain a certain perspective. We live in an endless stream of invention. It seems as though everything is new. But to the astute, the observant, even in an explosion of discovery, patterns emerge.


What Agile Can Learn from Submarines

Jens Coldewey

Among the most intriguing books about leadership I've read in the last year was David Marquet's Turn the Ship Around, in which Marquet -- a submarine captain of the US Navy -- describes how he turne


After the Cloud?

Roger Evernden

The concepts behind cloud technology have had a huge influence on the evolution of infrastructure architecture. But from an EA perspective, what should we be considering after the cloud?


After the Cloud?

Roger Evernden

The concepts behind cloud technology have had a huge influence on the evolution of infrastructure architecture. But from an EA perspective, what should we be considering after the cloud?


IBM Bets the Future on Watson

Curt Hall

The advent of cloud-based Watson-powered systems and services is significant. Outfitted with content and knowledge bases tailored to specific domains and industries, such systems can deliver expert reasoning and decision support that organizations can license. Thus, it increases the practicality of organizations to use such systems by reducing, if not eliminating, the need to deploy such high-end applications on-premises.


IBM Bets the Future on Watson

Curt Hall

The advent of cloud-based Watson-powered systems and services is significant. Outfitted with content and knowledge bases tailored to specific domains and industries, such systems can deliver expert reasoning and decision support that organizations can license. Thus, it increases the practicality of organizations to use such systems by reducing, if not eliminating, the need to deploy such high-end applications on-premises.


Descriptive, Predictive, and Prescriptive Analytics: Emerging Visions for the Analytics Future

Brian Dooley

In this Update, we explore how analytics engineering will emerge as a focal point for handling the integrations and infrastructure requirements of this new discipline. And fundamental changes will be necessary in how business processes are understood and in how decisions are made and evaluated at every level.


Change Management Principles

Ronald Blitstein

There are practices, tools, and techniques that can be adapted to a variety of situations and will enhance the organization's ability to achieve its change agenda.


Context Counts: Scaling Factors in Agile Software Delivery

Mark Lines, George Ambler, Scott Ambler

What scaling factors should we consider when tailoring our approach to Agile solution delivery? Several years ago, while working with IBM customers around the world to adopt and scale Agile, Scott developed the Agile Scaling Model (ASM) to help answer this question.


Web 1.0, Web 2.0, and Web 3.0

Roger Evernden

Amidst the jargon and hype there is usually a semblance of some idea or truth that has practical value. The evolution of the Web is popularly divided into Web 1.0 and Web 2.0, and now there is talk of an emerging Web 3.0.


Here Come the Bots: Big Data on Servos

Brian Dooley

Google has recently launched a buying spree for robotics companies, gaining attention through acquisition of Boston Dynamics, a creator of sophisticated animal-like robots for the US Defense Department.


When Normal Accidents Meet Willful Neglect

Robert Charette

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the publication of Yale sociology professor emeritus Charles Perrow's ground-breaking book Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies.


When Normal Accidents Meet Willful Neglect

Robert Charette

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the publication of Yale sociology professor emeritus Charles Perrow's ground-breaking book Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies.


Why Agile BI?

Brian Dooley

The need for Agile BI is easily seen in the increasing velocity of business, reduced profitability windows for innovation, and rapid changes in the technological environment.


Agile-EVM Performance Measurement Workshop

Alexandre Rodrigues
Measure and Manage Performance in Your Agile Projects

Agile adoption goes hand in hand with abandoning so-called traditional project management. Yet new projects are continously faced with legitimate management questions. Now you can answer these questions with confidence when you adapt the Earned Value Management method (EVM) into your Agile product development process.   


Top Intriguing Business & Enterprise Architecture Articles for 2013

Karen Coburn

As has been our tradition for the last several years, we've compiled the five most intriguing articles published by the Business & Enterprise Architecture practice for today's Advisor. How did we come up with this list? We chose the articles that garnered the most feedback from Cutter Members and clients and those that created controversy among Cutter Senior Consultants and Fellows.


A Practical Guide to the Most Useful Architectural Frameworks: Part III -- The Architecture Governance Process Framework

Roger Evernden

In the first two Executive Updates of this five-part series,1 we looked at frameworks for architecture content and the architecture development process.


Top Intriguing Data Insight & Social BI Articles for 2013

Karen Coburn

As has been our tradition for the last several years, we've compiled the five most intriguing articles published by the Data Insight & Social BI practice this year for today's Advisor. How did we come up with this list?


Cutter Predicts ... Cutter Experts’ Trends and Predictions for 2014

Cutter Consortium

Once again, the end of the year has snuck up! That means it’s time for our annual Cutter Predicts … series. Below, Cutter Fellows and Senior Consultants showcase their visions of 2014 (and in some cases, beyond).

All Gov’t Levels to Search for Cost-Effective Operational Stability by Mark Peterson

This coming year, government leaders will be looking for the most cost-effective means of operational stability for their level of government.


Cutter Predicts ... Cutter Experts’ Trends and Predictions for 2014

Cutter Consortium

Once again, the end of the year has snuck up! That means it’s time for our annual Cutter Predicts … series. Below, Cutter Fellows and Senior Consultants showcase their visions of 2014 (and in some cases, beyond).

All Gov’t Levels to Search for Cost-Effective Operational Stability by Mark Peterson

This coming year, government leaders will be looking for the most cost-effective means of operational stability for their level of government.


Risk Management 2013: A Comprehensive Survey (Part III)

Robert Charette

In 2002, Cutter Consortium conducted its first comprehensive survey of the state of risk management practice in the IT community, which was duplicated in 2006 and again this year.1 In Part I of this three-part Execut


Risk Management 2013: A Comprehensive Survey (Part III)

Robert Charette

In 2002, Cutter Consortium conducted its first comprehensive survey of the state of risk management practice in the IT community, which was duplicated in 2006 and again this year.1 In Part I of this three-part Execut