IT Must Lead Companies Out of the Downturn

Cutter Consortium, Cutter Consortium
  For more information on Cutter Consortium's Business Technology Trends and Impacts Advisory Service, please contact Dennis Crowley at +1 781 641 5125 or e-mail dcrowley@cutter

Extravagant Claims Set Risk Management up for Failure

Cutter Consortium

 

EXTRAVAGANT CLAIMS SET RISK MANAGEMENT UP FOR FAILURE

 

Recent revelations of abuse by supposedly world-class practitioners on Wall Street and at companies like Enron underscore the importance of a realistic approach to risk management.

Whenever practitioners misuse and abuse the risk management discipline, they contribute to what risk management expert and Cutter Consortium Fellow Robert N. Charette calls the "risk management misery scenario" -- a future in which managing risk is perpetually under fire and discounted as an effective management tool.


Meeting Business Needs with Wireless Technology

Ian Hayes
  For more on wireless technology, see the October 2002 issue of Cutter IT Journal, available from Cutter Consortium at +1 781 641 9876, fax +1 781 648 1950, e-mail serv

Agile Project Management in Action -- Part 9A, Project Risk Planning

Rob Thomsett

In this Advisor, we discuss a highly topical and typically misunderstood part of Agile projects: project risk planning.


Agile Project Management in Action -- Part 9A, Project Risk Planning

Rob Thomsett

In this Advisor, we discuss a highly topical and typically misunderstood part of Agile projects: project risk planning.


Borland Buys TogetherSoft

Paul Harmon

At the end of October, Borland Software announced that it had agreed to buy TogetherSoft Corp. for $82.5 million in cash and a little over nine million shares of Borland common stock. The entire transaction is valued at $185 million, based on Borland's closing price per share of $11.34 on 29 October.


How to Start a Software Development War

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  For more information on Cutter Consortium's Cutter IT Journal, or to order XP and Culture Change, please contact Dennis Crowley at +1 781 641 5125 or e-mail

Writing and Learning -- Part 2

Jim Highsmith
  Writing and Learning series: Part 1 Part 2