First, Get the Front End Right
The development team settled down in its bullpen one fine Monday morning in April, ready to begin work on its new project. The lead developer said, "You folks start coding.
The Secrets of Highly Successful Measurement Programs
©1999 Quality Plus Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved.
The Secrets of Highly Successful Measurement Programs
©1999 Quality Plus Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved.
Back to the Basics: Metrics that Work for "Software Projects
Metrics are powerful tools, but they are not popular with people caught in tough projects.
Back to the Basics: Metrics that Work for "Software Projects
Metrics are powerful tools, but they are not popular with people caught in tough projects.
Competing in the Information Age
The Growing Role of Meta Data
The Most Important Project in Anyone's Career
The most important project in anyone's career is not their biggest project, not their hardest project, and not the one that earns them a big bonus. It's their first project in the workplace.
The Most Important Project in Anyone's Career
The most important project in anyone's career is not their biggest project, not their hardest project, and not the one that earns them a big bonus. It's their first project in the workplace.
The Most Important Project in Anyone's Career
The most important project in anyone's career is not their biggest project, not their hardest project, and not the one that earns them a big bonus. It's their first project in the workplace.
The Most Important Project in Anyone's Career
The most important project in anyone's career is not their biggest project, not their hardest project, and not the one that earns them a big bonus. It's their first project in the workplace.
US Second in World for IT Compensation
The 1999 Worldwide Benchmark Report, conducted by Howard Rubin, editor of IT Metrics Strategies and senior
US Second in World for IT Compensation
What to Measure?
©1999 by Johanna Rothman
DCOM Distributed Enterprise Applications
Design Patterns Versus Methodologies
The first decade of the new century will see a shift to the development and use of component-based, Internet-enabled systems. Currently, there are two very different approaches to the development of object-oriented systems: object-oriented development methodologies and object-oriented design patterns.
Design Patterns Versus Methodologies
Design Patterns Versus Methodologies
US Leads in Software Fix/Repair Activities
According to a new study, software fix/repair activity occupies US organizations at a level that is 21% higher than non-US organizations.
On Your Way to Outsourcing
The Compensation Crisis
There are several trends that lead me to believe that we are in the midst of a compensation crisis. What makes this crisis so interesting is that these trends are both counter-intuitive and non-convergent. Consider the following:
The Compensation Crisis
There are several trends that lead me to believe that we are in the midst of a compensation crisis. What makes this crisis so interesting is that these trends are both counter-intuitive and non-convergent. Consider the following:


