Postmortems Are About the Process, Not the Project

Bob Benson, Tom Bugnitz, Tom Bugnitz, Tom Walton, William Walton, William Walton, Kaleb Walton

Most companies recognize some flavor of the IT project lifecycle and use processes to manage each stage of the lifecycle. The common stages include project definition (including building the business case); project approval and prioritization; project development and implementation; ongoing operation, support, and maintenance; and finally, retirement.


Market Trends

Tom Welsh
Volume 3, No. 12; December 2004Printer Friendly PDF version

Open Source Software Adoption And Effectiveness in IT

John Parodi, Jason Matthews, Haim Matthews, Michael Matthews
INTRODUCTION

Open source software (OSS) is increasingly prevalent on the Internet and within enterprise IT. For example, Apache's HTTP Server has been the most popular Web server since 1996 and is now more widely used than all others combined. And almost everyone is aware of Linux's inroads in the operating system market.


Conversations on Open Source

John Parodi, Jason Matthews, Haim Matthews, Michael Matthews

Conversations on Open Source

John Parodi, Jason Matthews, Haim Matthews, Michael Matthews

Business Mechanics 101: Repairing Your Engine

Howard Webb
  Business Mechanics 101 series: Know Your Engine

Agile Data Warehousing: Incorporating Agile Principles

Ken Collier, Jim Highsmith
DA & DT  EXECUTIVE REPORT VOL. 4, NO. 12

Data Integration Compliance

Dan Linstedt

The purpose of this Executive Update is to discuss the conundrum of data integration and compliance as well as the roles that IT must play when addressing compliance issues.


Data Integration Compliance

Dan Linstedt

The purpose of this Executive Update is to discuss the conundrum of data integration and compliance as well as the roles that IT must play when addressing compliance issues.


Metadata: "Watch Out for That Tree!"

Andy Maher
INTRODUCTION

It has been said that information is merely the correlation and selection of data and that, by extension, knowledge is the correlation and selection of information. I have said it myself. I was wrong.


Collaborative Technologies for the Financial Services Industry

Eric Tsui

Collaborations among knowledge workers are becoming increasingly important as organizations drive for globalization and innovation to achieve a competitive advantage. Meanwhile, work has become more and more knowledge-based, constantly requiring decisions to be made that are based on instant access to data from a diversity of information sources. This situation is especially common in the financial services industry.


Collaborative Technologies for the Financial Services Industry

Eric Tsui

Collaborations among knowledge workers are becoming increasingly important as organizations drive for globalization and innovation to achieve a competitive advantage. Meanwhile, work has become more and more knowledge-based, constantly requiring decisions to be made that are based on instant access to data from a diversity of information sources. This situation is especially common in the financial services industry.