The Rise and Fall of Information Janitors
The Rise and Fall of Information Janitors
Distributed and Internet Computing
9/11, One Year Later
9/11, One Year Later
The High-Tech Worker Shortage Continues
Vendor Selection: A Recipe for Success
Vendor Selection: A Recipe for Success
The High-Tech Worker Shortage Continues
The High-Tech Worker Shortage Continues
Managing Alignment Risks -- Part III: Ranking Risk and Developing Responses
This is the third Advisor in a series on the importance of practicing risk management for effective business-IT alignment. Last week ( 30 August 2000), I discussed developing a qualitative appreciation of each identified risk, which involves classifying the risk, identifying the risk owner, and assessing the magnitude of the risk's impact.
Managing Alignment Risks -- Part III: Ranking Risk and Developing Responses
This is the third Advisor in a series on the importance of practicing risk management for effective business-IT alignment. Last week ( 30 August 2000), I discussed developing a qualitative appreciation of each identified risk, which involves classifying the risk, identifying the risk owner, and assessing the magnitude of the risk's impact.
Japan's Internet Strategy
The Japanese government recently announced a five-year plan to make itself into an Internet powerhouse. I read the announcement with interest. When I was heavily involved in expert systems and AI in the mid-1980s, Japan was engaged in its Fifth Generation project, an effort to propel Japan into a leadership position in AI.
Pretending to Be a Black Rain Cloud
"I'm just a Little Black Rain Cloud hovering over a honey tree."
Those of you with children or who remember being a child will recognize this classic Disney tune. Winnie-the-Pooh, in his never-ending quest for honey, has dunked himself in a mud puddle and is floating upward clinging to a helium balloon toward a large beehive high in a tree.
Managing Alignment Risks -- Part III: Ranking Risk and Developing Responses
Managing Alignment Risks -- Part III: Ranking Risk and Developing Responses
Japan's Internet Strategy
Japan's Internet Strategy
Pretending to Be a Black Rain Cloud
"I'm just a Little Black Rain Cloud hovering over a honey tree."
Pretending to Be a Black Rain Cloud
"I'm just a Little Black Rain Cloud hovering over a honey tree."
Business-IT Strategies and Linkage
Our Rapidly Disappearing History
Our Rapidly Disappearing History
Sizing Up Your Promises and Expectations
In previous issues of ITMS, I tackled the subject of managing Internet-speed deadlines (see ITMS, May and June 2000). Specifically, what do you do when IT projects are given a deadline first, before you know the full scope of the requirements? Also, how do IT applications development and maintenance projects fundamentally behave -- what are the "laws of nature"? How can that knowledge help us estimate projects better?
Practical Software Measures Offer Solutions to Process Challenges
A good measurement program is one of the cornerstones of any successful process-improvement program. In fact, measurement is essential if you want to be able to quantitatively identify improvements. But knowing this doesn't help when you find yourself responsible for the implementation of a measurement program in your organization. There are just a few questions you want answered. Where do you start? What are the right things to measure? Why me?
