"No matter what goals your company has set or planned for 2013 -- a clean end game for an ongoing set of initiatives, an accelerated start for new ones, radical changes, or battening down the hatches -- now is the time to take stock and turn plans into action."

-- Joseph Feller, Editor

"Enterprise patterns are now an established approach that can be used to describe and explain architectural change at all levels -- from IT transformation to product lifecycle management, from business capability architecture to real-time enterprise frameworks."

"If you still believe that agile and CMMI don't work well together, then what you'll learn in this issue is that, to put it plainly, you're wrong."

Opening Statement

Agile or CMMI. Agile and CMMI. AGILE AND CMMI! AGILE AND CMMI?!?!!#%&***@^@!!

"With world Internet usage quintupling per decade, there is no upper limit on the number and value of new business opportunities for those who can bend the swelling flood of data to their purposes."

"Is it possible to invent or innovate in a more open or collaborative manner, leveraging the intellect of inventors outside of a traditional corporate structure, given the current frameworks for IP protection?"