We began our discussion of the language of money in the first part of this Advisor series (see " The Nimble Project Manager and the Language of Money, Part 1," 1 December 2005). This Advisor recommends ways an agile project manager can best use the language of money.

Here are some holiday gift ideas that dovetail pretty nicely with the trends we're seeing in our business.

10. Let's give Larry Ellison another appearance on Oprah to reprise his "network computer" sales pitch -- the one that fell flat way back when but would fly today. We all know that it's only a matter of time before thin clients rule.

Here are some holiday gift ideas that dovetail pretty nicely with the trends we're seeing in our business.

10. Let's give Larry Ellison another appearance on Oprah to reprise his "network computer" sales pitch -- the one that fell flat way back when but would fly today. We all know that it's only a matter of time before thin clients rule.

In late November, the Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown stunned the UK business community by unexpectedly announcing that the long-awaited public company reporting requirement called the Operating Financial Review (OFR) was being abolished. The OFR, scheduled to go into affect in April 2006 after already being postponed a year, was meant to provide shareholders clear, comprehensive, and complete information on the operations and thinking inside UK public companies.

In late November, the Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown stunned the UK business community by unexpectedly announcing that the long-awaited public company reporting requirement called the Operating Financial Review (OFR) was being abolished. The OFR, scheduled to go into affect in April 2006 after already being postponed a year, was meant to provide shareholders clear, comprehensive, and complete information on the operations and thinking inside UK public companies.

In recent years, a number of seminal books have helped to define the software security field [1, 2, 8]. The approach to "building security in" introduced in these books has been enhanced and expanded by practitioners and published in various technical articles, including the "Building Security In" series in IEEE Security & Privacy.

Enterprise architecture, business architecture, technology architecture, information architecture, federated architecture, domain architecture, product family architecture, platform architecture, solution architecture, system architecture, software architecture ...

Can the corporate IT R&D function be recast to take on the larger responsibility for business-IT innovation? Although IT R&D as we know it is a useful function, on its own it is unlikely to make much of a business impact, or even to survive until the next business cycle. Consider the following limitations of traditional IT R&D in the context of business-IT innovation:

Can the corporate IT R&D function be recast to take on the larger responsibility for business-IT innovation? Although IT R&D as we know it is a useful function, on its own it is unlikely to make much of a business impact, or even to survive until the next business cycle. Consider the following limitations of traditional IT R&D in the context of business-IT innovation:

Can the corporate IT R&D function be recast to take on the larger responsibility for business-IT innovation? Although IT R&D as we know it is a useful function, on its own it is unlikely to make much of a business impact, or even to survive until the next business cycle. Consider the following limitations of traditional IT R&D in the context of business-IT innovation:

One area that many EA programs struggle with is demonstrating the value that they bring to an enterprise. A useful way to address this challenge is to think of EA as a service organization; i.e., as providing a service to the enterprise and, in particular, to specific user groups (customers) within the enterprise. To start with this approach, we first identify who the customers are and what service is provided to them.

In this on-demand webinar you'll learn shy risk management for software is entirely different from financial risk management.; the core process to do risk management at the project level and above; why you can never completely avoid or transfer risk in software development; and how to mitigate or contain risks.

NCR's Teradata data warehousing division has acquired packaged financial performance data warehouse vendor DecisionPoint Software for an undisclosed amount. Teradata plans to integrate DecisionPoint's data warehousing and financial performance management (FPM) technology with the Teradata enterprise data warehouse offering.

The world is far too complicated for humans to get things perfectly right the first time, but humans have a great capacity to tune in, to perfect through feedback, and then to make an adjustment.