In his wrap-up presentation at Cutter's Summit 2005, Cutter Fellow Tom DeMarco noted "the pervasive presence of Mr. Sarbanes and Mr. Oxley at this conference, although they weren't registered." Indeed, every session provoked questions and comments on the subject of the US Sarbanes-Oxley Act (aka SOX or Sarbox) regardless of the keynote topic.

In his wrap-up presentation at Cutter's Summit 2005, Cutter Fellow Tom DeMarco noted "the pervasive presence of Mr. Sarbanes and Mr. Oxley at this conference, although they weren't registered." Indeed, every session provoked questions and comments on the subject of the US Sarbanes-Oxley Act (aka SOX or Sarbox) regardless of the keynote topic.

At the end of 2004, Cutter Consortium conducted a survey in an effort to gain some insight into subscribers' opinions about SOX before they actually had to torture their IT systems into compliance with its wide-reaching and potentially burdensome provisions. We plan to follow up this effort later this year to see how these impressions have been altered by the compliance experience.

At the end of 2004, Cutter Consortium conducted a survey in an effort to gain some insight into subscribers' opinions about SOX before they actually had to torture their IT systems into compliance with its wide-reaching and potentially burdensome provisions. We plan to follow up this effort later this year to see how these impressions have been altered by the compliance experience.

Most enterprise-level advice targets medium and large companies. In this Executive Update, I'd like to consider some techniques that allow smaller organizations to manage their portfolio of projects without adopting processes that require excessive overhead relative to the size of the organization.

Most enterprise-level advice targets medium and large companies. In this Executive Update, I'd like to consider some techniques that allow smaller organizations to manage their portfolio of projects without adopting processes that require excessive overhead relative to the size of the organization.