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.

One of my favorite writers is Christopher Alexander. Alexander is a maverick architect who has spent the better part of his career criticizing mainstream architecture for concentrating on visually different but sterile buildings and environments. Alexander is a darling of the software community because of his work on "pattern languages."

One of my favorite writers is Christopher Alexander. Alexander is a maverick architect who has spent the better part of his career criticizing mainstream architecture for concentrating on visually different but sterile buildings and environments. Alexander is a darling of the software community because of his work on "pattern languages."

Failure to protect stakeholder interests with respect to certain categories of information or failure to prevent unauthorized access to personal information may have serious legal consequences. An enterprise-wide approach to security governance can help an organization maintain compliance with new and expanding laws and regulations and avoid legal liability related to statutory or common law.

Failure to protect stakeholder interests with respect to certain categories of information or failure to prevent unauthorized access to personal information may have serious legal consequences. An enterprise-wide approach to security governance can help an organization maintain compliance with new and expanding laws and regulations and avoid legal liability related to statutory or common law.

Web services are nowadays emerging as a major technology for deploying automated interactions between distributed and heterogeneous applications. Various standards support this deployment, including WSDL, UDDI, and SOAP. These standards respectively support the definition of Web services, their advertisement to the community of users, and finally their binding for invocation purposes. In general, composing Web services rather than accessing a single Web service is essential and provides better benefits to users.

There are no guarantees for winning any case, but consider using the following maxims for systems development/implementation projects to help you increase your chances of project or courtroom success.

In order to SUCCEED:

There are no guarantees for winning any case, but consider using the following maxims for systems development/implementation projects to help you increase your chances of project or courtroom success.

In order to SUCCEED:

SAP AG has acquired enterprise information integration (EII) vendor Callixa for an undisclosed amount. SAP plans to use Callixa software to supplement the data integration capabilities of its enterprise software offerings.

Most managers' first response, on being asked to secure their corporate networks, would probably be to install a firewall and force all incoming and outgoing traffic to pass through it. (Antivirus packages for all computers might come a close second these days.) Networks are becoming so complex and dynamic, however, that there are growing doubts as to whether perimeter defense can be trusted at all.

Everyone wants new management offices. It seems that a preferred response to management problems of many kinds is to create a new office responsible for something fairly specific. The ones that come immediately to mind are project management offices (PMOs), process management offices (PMOs again -- causing, of course, some confusion among the acronym crowd), and vendor management offices (VMOs). What are these offices, and who are these people? And why are there so many of them?