Cutter IT Journal: The Evolution of Agile Project Management: Part II

Jim Highsmith
It's a Big Tent Agile project management can cover a wide range of projects and organizational cultures. Given the right structuring, APM can coexist with other project management frameworks — even the PMI's PMBOK Guide® or the SEI's CMMI®.

Let's Follow the Lead of Agriculture and Manufacturing

Paul Bassett

In the US, agriculture employed 63% of the workforce in 1840 compared with just 2% today. In 1943, the number of US blue-collar employees reached its peak, accounting for at least 40% of the workforce. That number has steadily declined since then to about 8%, and before the end of the century may well fall to the same level as that of agriculture [3].


Chief Information Officer or Corporate Risk Manager?

Cutter Consortium

[Excerpted from an article in the June 2004 Business-IT Strategies Executive Report.]

"The level of risk management required to cope with emerging issues has increased significantly both for the CIO and the corporation as a whole. As a result, the need for enterprise risk management and governance has never been greater or more urgent," says Cutter Consortium Fellow Robert N. Charette.


Preparing for the Microscope: IT in a Litigious World

Tom Bugnitz

Let's start this note with a pop quiz: what's the difference between Dennis Kozlowski's toga-infested $2.1-million birthday party, with Tyco paying for half of it, and a failed SAP installation that costs a company $20 million? Answer: One of them is an ill-advised colossal waste of company resources and the other is a birthday party.


Preparing for the Microscope: IT in a Litigious World

Tom Bugnitz

Let's start this note with a pop quiz: what's the difference between Dennis Kozlowski's toga-infested $2.1-million birthday party, with Tyco paying for half of it, and a failed SAP installation that costs a company $20 million? Answer: One of them is an ill-advised colossal waste of company resources and the other is a birthday party.


Why IT Is Now a Board-Level Concern

Richard Nolan

Most of the average company's capital investment portfolio is tied to information technology, and organizations today can't do without their information systems.