In last month's ITMS, I took you through the initial stages of measurement program design from the underlying concepts to a first-round design workshop. Here's where I left you...

Those involved in "the great COBOL debate" might worry that my affiliation with The COBOL Foundation makes me hopelessly biased.

Those involved in "the great COBOL debate" might worry that my affiliation with The COBOL Foundation makes me hopelessly biased.

Boring, stodgy, wordy, mainframe-bound -- these are but a few of the slings and arrows that COBOL has endured over the past decade.

Boring, stodgy, wordy, mainframe-bound -- these are but a few of the slings and arrows that COBOL has endured over the past decade.

Picture Jim, an IS manager facing typical challenges in updating his company's information systems.

Picture Jim, an IS manager facing typical challenges in updating his company's information systems.

Today the computing community is faced with the decision whether to move existing software into a client-server environment.

Today the computing community is faced with the decision whether to move existing software into a client-server environment.

This article is about the real world of enterprise business application programming. It also happens to be about COBOL.

This article is about the real world of enterprise business application programming. It also happens to be about COBOL.

In my travels around the world of measurement, I have found that organizations and their measurement efforts have be

The irresistible rise of the Inter/intranet has turned groupware's future into a joke with a very predictable punch line.

The irresistible rise of the Inter/intranet has turned groupware's future into a joke with a very predictable punch line.

Groupware would appear to require groups.

Groupware would appear to require groups.

In an earlier report [3], we described the benefits of using computer communication services to support distributed software development teams.

In an earlier report [3], we described the benefits of using computer communication services to support distributed software development teams.

The World Wide Web (WWW) has rapidly evolved into a significant network paradigm for intra- and inter-enterprise publishing and other collaborative applications. Fundamentally, the Web is a set of protocols that operates over the Internet (as well as private, internal intranets).