Before I became a usability consultant, I spent the first 10 years of my career developing hard-to-use software. Of course, I didn't know at the time that's what I was doing. As a software engineer and then project manager for a building controls company, I worked hard with my teams to deliver applications that we believed facilities managers would find useful.

Before I became a usability consultant, I spent the first 10 years of my career developing hard-to-use software. Of course, I didn't know at the time that's what I was doing. As a software engineer and then project manager for a building controls company, I worked hard with my teams to deliver applications that we believed facilities managers would find useful.

Security

The denial of service attacks and other Internet disruptions initially predicted by the Cutter Business Technology Council in the fall of 2001 and spring of 2002 have indeed increased, and the threat of large-scale deliberate disruptions remains high.

Is agile project management and development incompatible with other approaches? Much has been written about agile versus CMM (the Software Engineering Institute's Capability Maturity Model) or agile versus PMBOK (the Project Management Body of Knowledge), but are these approaches, practices, philosophies, and knowledge incompatible?