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November 2003
In this issue:October 2003
Usability Deserves Respect
Software development is always a gamble, and usability has become part of the table stakes. Ignore usability, and your customers will take their chips and go home.In this issue:- Cutter IT Journal: Is Software Usability Getting the Respect It Deserves?
- Software Usability: Overcoming the Barriers: Opening Statement
- Adopting User-Centered Design Within an Agile Process: A Conversation
- Beyond Usability Methods: Usability Engineering Through Processes and Outcomes
- Taking the Measure of User-Centered Design
- Discount Usability Engineering
- Satisfying Users Against Their Will
October 2003
Data mining, the subject of this month's CBR , aims to recover the ability of our information systems to richly inform our corporate decisionmakers. If we can correctly structure data and then interrogate it intelligently, we potentially can deliver on a longtime promise: to provide a better basis for sound business decisions.September 2003
An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Software patterns have been helping us design better software for many years. They capture and effectively transmit highly useful knowledge that was once solely in the minds of gurus.In this issue:- Cutter IT Journal: Patterns in Software Development
- Opening Statement
- Not Yet "Drunk on God": A Sobering View of Patterns Progress
- Can Patterns Be Harmful?
- The Perfection of Informality: Tools, Templates, and Patterns
- Context Is Key: The Power of Pattern Languages
- Singing the Songs of Project Experience: Patterns and Retrospectives
September 2003
Few IT-related subjects have inspired stronger feelings over the past few years than enterprise resource planning systems, more often known by the acronym ERP. These large, off-the-shelf software packages promised to replace complex legacy problems with a well-integrated and modern application infrastructure. In many ways, this promise was always too grand, and savvy businesspeople should have known better. But the idea that there was a single way of solving so many of your problems proved seductive, leading many companies down the ERP path.
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