Be Careful Out There

Steve Andriole

A BPMN Metamodel

Paul Harmon

Informatica Buys Striva for Mainframe Data Integration

Curt Hall

The consolidation of the business intelligence (BI) market continues with the recent announcement that data warehouse extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) tools vendor Informatica is buying mainframe data integration software vendor Striva Corporation for approximately US $62 million in a cash-and-stock transaction.


The Semantic Web: Proof, Trust, and Security

Tom Welsh
  For more on the Semantic Web, see the August 2003 issue of Web Services Strategies, available from Cutter Consortium's bookstore, or at +1 781 641 9876, fax +1 781 648 1950, or e-mail service@cutter.com.

 


Why Do We Need Initial Development?

Kent Beck

I've been following Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Rob Thomsett's Advisor series, and he's got me thinking.


How Do I Know Whether I Have a Risk Management Culture? Part I

Robert Charette

The following are excerpts from the August 2003 Columbia Accident Incident Board (CAIB) report on the Columbia Shuttle disaster:


How Do I Know Whether I Have a Risk Management Culture? Part I

Robert Charette

The following are excerpts from the August 2003 Columbia Accident Incident Board (CAIB) report on the Columbia Shuttle disaster:


So Again, How Will You Know When You Have Succeeded?

Robert Charette

This Risk Rant is a continuation of Robert N. Charette's Bulletin "How Do I Know Whether I Have a Risk Management Culture? Part I."


So Again, How Will You Know When You Have Succeeded?

Robert Charette

This Risk Rant is a continuation of Robert N. Charette's Bulletin "How Do I Know Whether I Have a Risk Management Culture? Part I."


Work Hours

Kent Beck
 

Scrum, Complexity, and Process Improvement

Ken Schwaber

Everyone likes Scrum. What's not to like? Scrum increases productivity, improves return on investment, delivers useful functionality every month, and helps everyone enjoy working. Yet everyone wants to tinker with it, to improve it, to increase its accuracy, to make it more amenable to his or her culture.


Needed Repairs

Ken Orr

Needed Repairs

Ken Orr