COTS Lessons Learned: The Hot New Product Isn't Always the Most Desirable
For a number of years, IT organizations have been leaning toward using commercial off-the-shelf software (COTS) components in their systems, rather than opting to develop functionality from scratch.
Software Quality, Leprechauns, and Other Myths and Legends
Software Quality, Leprechauns, and Other Myths and Legends
Light Methodologies: It's Like Déjà Vu All Over Again
Light Methodologies: It's Like Déjà Vu All Over Again
An Iteration in the Life of an XP Project
An Iteration in the Life of an XP Project
Emergent Control in Extreme Programming
Emergent Control in Extreme Programming
Balancing Lightness with Sufficiency
Balancing Lightness with Sufficiency
Skill Over Process
Software Development
Assertion #43The "task and artifact" focus of traditional process improvement has run its course. The next wave focuses instead on skills and relationships. This trend requires process specialists to gain new skills, retool, and rethink their relationship to software projects.
Skill Over Process
Software Development
Assertion #43The "task and artifact" focus of traditional process improvement has run its course. The next wave focuses instead on skills and relationships. This trend requires process specialists to gain new skills, retool, and rethink their relationship to software projects.
The Paradox of E-Business
Responses to a recent Cutter Consortium survey on e-business strategy raise interesting questions about the role IT organizations are playing in the move to e-business.
The Paradox of E-Business
Responses to a recent Cutter Consortium survey on e-business strategy raise interesting questions about the role IT organizations are playing in the move to e-business.
Cutter Technology Council Predicts $580 Billion in Future Credit Card Transactions over the Wireless Web
Outsourcing and Knowledge Management
I spent a wonderful couple of hours with one of my favorite CIOs yesterday discussing the pros and cons of outsourcing. This is a person who over the last couple of years has pulled more and more of her organization's IT functions back into her shop.
Outsourcing and Knowledge Management
I spent a wonderful couple of hours with one of my favorite CIOs yesterday discussing the pros and cons of outsourcing. This is a person who over the last couple of years has pulled more and more of her organization's IT functions back into her shop.
