Software configuration management (SCM) and build management are misunderstood disciplines. Many organizations have practices in these areas that either hinder productivity or sacrifice too much traceability in the name of improving short-term productivity. SCM and build, when done correctly, can provide a framework that allows a team to develop code quickly. However, it's also possible to establish practices that can hinder your development team.

Software configuration management (SCM) and build management are misunderstood disciplines. Many organizations have practices in these areas that either hinder productivity or sacrifice too much traceability in the name of improving short-term productivity. SCM and build, when done correctly, can provide a framework that allows a team to develop code quickly. However, it's also possible to establish practices that can hinder your development team.

Software configuration management (SCM) and build management are misunderstood disciplines. Many organizations have practices in these areas that either hinder productivity or sacrifice too much traceability in the name of improving short-term productivity. SCM and build, when done correctly, can provide a framework that allows a team to develop code quickly. However, it's also possible to establish practices that can hinder your development team.

Leaders of technology companies should take change management more seriously. While this is also true of changes to requirements, products, and other elements normally handled by change-control systems, here we're talking about the type of change management that's associated with organizational change.

China's transformation toward a technology powerhouse gives Western firms new opportunities for IT services sourcing. However, with it comes significant managerial challenges.

China's transformation toward a technology powerhouse gives Western firms new opportunities for IT services sourcing. However, with it comes significant managerial challenges.

China's transformation toward a technology powerhouse gives Western firms new opportunities for IT services sourcing. However, with it comes significant managerial challenges.

China's transformation toward a technology powerhouse gives Western firms new opportunities for IT services sourcing. However, with it comes significant managerial challenges.

China's transformation toward a technology powerhouse gives Western firms new opportunities for IT services sourcing. However, with it comes significant managerial challenges.

Business architecture not only provides a vision for aligning stakeholder value and customer experience across business units and product lines, but it also allows executives and portfolio managers to

Business architecture not only provides a vision for aligning stakeholder value and customer experience across business units and product lines, but it also allows executives and portfolio managers to

Business architecture not only provides a vision for aligning stakeholder value and customer experience across business units and product lines, but it also allows executives and portfolio managers to

Business architecture not only provides a vision for aligning stakeholder value and customer experience across business units and product lines, but it also allows executives and portfolio managers to

Business architecture not only provides a vision for aligning stakeholder value and customer experience across business units and product lines, but it also allows executives and portfolio managers to

Business architecture not only provides a vision for aligning stakeholder value and customer experience across business units and product lines, but it also allows executives and portfolio managers to

The general thinking in the cloud provider community -- public or private -- has been to assume that anyone moving applications into the cloud is creating new servers and building new systems and applications, not migrating existing applications and systems.

Project managers (PMs) are used to working fairly solo. If you have a PMO of, say, 15 PMs, each of whom is running, on average, five projects, then that's 75 projects that may be going on at any given time in the organization. Are we going to involve senior management in every one of those 75 projects? No. Should we, as project managers, expect that our senior management wants to have intimate knowledge of the status of each of those 75 projects? No.

Project managers (PMs) are used to working fairly solo. If you have a PMO of, say, 15 PMs, each of whom is running, on average, five projects, then that's 75 projects that may be going on at any given time in the organization. Are we going to involve senior management in every one of those 75 projects? No. Should we, as project managers, expect that our senior management wants to have intimate knowledge of the status of each of those 75 projects? No.

Analyzing social media data in support of corporate BI practices is currently limited; however, it does appear that the practice is increasing. Moreover, interest among organizations in the possibility of analyzing social media data in the near future is quite strong.

In February/March 2011, Cutter Consortium conducted a survey asking 60 end-user organizations various questions about the adoption and use of predictive analytics.

For more than half a century we have been witnessing the doubling of the power of computer technology every two years.

"I feel that people I trusted ... have let me down."

"I feel that people I trusted ... have let me down."

Threats to the enterprise come from a wide variety of areas and can appear suddenly or grow over time. Such risks include the following types:

Threats to the enterprise come from a wide variety of areas and can appear suddenly or grow over time. Such risks include the following types: