Breaking Up Microsoft

Paul Harmon

A few weeks ago, a report appeared suggesting that the government had decided to push in the direction of breaking Microsoft into product-oriented companies. Obviously, a lot of discussion and debate will occur before any intention is realized and this may never happen, but it is apparently the primary option being considered at the moment.


Some Thoughts on Requirements Management

Dwayne Phillips

Requirements management (RM) is simple in principle but difficult in practice. The Software Engineering Institute's (SEI) Capability Maturity Model (CMM) spells out RM in basic terms. RM means to:

Establish a common understanding of the requirements with the customer Document that understanding Make changes in an organized manner

How could anything be simpler?


Breaking Up Microsoft

Paul Harmon
BREAKING UP MICROSOFT 26 January 2000 by Paul Harmon

A few weeks ago, a report appeared suggesting that the government had decided to push in the direction of breaking Microsoft into product-oriented companies.


Breaking Up Microsoft

Paul Harmon
BREAKING UP MICROSOFT 26 January 2000 by Paul Harmon

A few weeks ago, a report appeared suggesting that the government had decided to push in the direction of breaking Microsoft into product-oriented companies.


Some Thoughts on Requirements Management

Dwayne Phillips
SOME THOUGHTS ON REQUIREMENTS MANAGEMENT 26 January 2000 by Dwayne Phillips

Requirements management (RM) is simple in principle but difficult in practice. The Software Engineering Institute's (SEI) Capability Maturity Model (CMM) spells out RM in basic terms.


Some Thoughts on Requirements Management

Dwayne Phillips
SOME THOUGHTS ON REQUIREMENTS MANAGEMENT 26 January 2000 by Dwayne Phillips

Requirements management (RM) is simple in principle but difficult in practice. The Software Engineering Institute's (SEI) Capability Maturity Model (CMM) spells out RM in basic terms.


"It's Not Easy to Create an AOL"

Ed Yourdon
"IT'S NOT EASY TO CREATE AN AOL" 20 January 2000 by Ed Yourdon

Jim Highsmith, one of the members of the Cutter Technology Council has made a number of "mega-trend" predictions about e-business; one of them is that e-business initiatives will cause significant (and largely un


The Importance of Top-Down Planning, Part I

Alexandre Rodrigues

Business-IT alignment is very much about implementing change successfully. As new information technologies emerge, organizations must be attentive to the potential benefits and competitive advantages they can bring to their businesses. They must also be capable of adjusting their current IT solutions quickly and regularly.


Funding Businesses

Paul Harmon

In a former life, I used to spend a lot of time developing training programs for companies. Initially I believed that the instructional designer should be someone different from the presenter. Instructional designers worried about sequencing and learning outcomes, while presenters delivered a performance. People I knew argued about how to train new instructional designers. Should you hire someone with a background in instructional design and then let him or her learn a subject matter?


Information Security: Not Just a Y2000 Problem

Nancy Mead

During the weeks and months preceding the Y2000 event, there was heightened attention paid to information security. Many organizations started to become concerned about viruses that might be launched to coincide with Y2000, disguised to resemble Y2000 bugs rather than security breaches. There was a lot of attention paid to keeping up with patches to fix security holes in commercial products and more effort spent on installing intrusion-detection products.


Information Security: Not Just a Y2000 Problem

Nancy Mead

During the weeks and months preceding the Y2000 event, there was heightened attention paid to information security. Many organizations started to become concerned about viruses that might be launched to coincide with Y2000, disguised to resemble Y2000 bugs rather than security breaches. There was a lot of attention paid to keeping up with patches to fix security holes in commercial products and more effort spent on installing intrusion-detection products.


Funding Businesses

Paul Harmon
FUNDING BUSINESSES 19 January 2000 by Paul Harmon

In a former life, I used to spend a lot of time developing training programs for companies. Initially I believed that the instructional designer should be someone different from the presenter.


Funding Businesses

Paul Harmon
FUNDING BUSINESSES 19 January 2000 by Paul Harmon

In a former life, I used to spend a lot of time developing training programs for companies. Initially I believed that the instructional designer should be someone different from the presenter.


Information Security: Not Just a Y2000 Problem

Nancy Mead
INFORMATION SECURITY: NOT JUST A Y2000 PROBLEM 19 January 2000 by Nancy Mead

During the weeks and months preceding the Y2000 event, there was heightened attention paid to information security.


Information Security: Not Just a Y2000 Problem

Nancy Mead
INFORMATION SECURITY: NOT JUST A Y2000 PROBLEM 19 January 2000 by Nancy Mead

During the weeks and months preceding the Y2000 event, there was heightened attention paid to information security.


It's Never too Early for Relationship Management

Jack Benton

We all operate in a dynamic market swept by global changes such as Web-inspired technology infrastructure paradigm shifts, privatization, deregulation, and the globalization of industries. Mergers and acquisitions abound as companies seek to remain strong or gain strength in an e-commerce-enabled global marketplace.