| Usability Deserves Respect | ||
October 2003
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
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.August 2003
A Zero-Sum Game
CIOs will struggle to make technology relevant to a business that is concerned with cutting costs and improving performance.
In this issue:- Cutter IT Journal: August 2003
- The New CIO Agenda: Opening Statement
- The CIO's Role in the CEO's Agenda
- CIOs Can't Do It Alone: Project Success Through Better Sponsorship
- Women CIOs: Cracks in the Glass Ceiling
- All Things to All People No Longer: Four Options for the New CIO Agenda
- The CIO: "Career Is Onward"
August 2003
When it comes to software testing, people disagree quite a bit. Some argue vehemently for a particular point of view, while others consider that very position nonsensical. For example, the "zero defects" crowd generally thinks the "good enough quality" crowd is out to lunch -- and vice versa. The different camps have different pictures in their heads, different frames of reference and implicit assumptions. A big part of what's important in debates about software testing (and, by extension, software quality) is what goes unsaid because the speaker considers it obvious.In this issue:- Software Testing: A Field in Transition
- Paying Now or Paying Later. Part I: Paying Now
- Software Testing -- Paying Now or Paying Later. Part II: Paying (Some) Later
- Software Testing -- Paying Now or Paying Later. Part III: The Tester's Scorecard
- Testing: Key to Adaptability
- Testing Tactics for IT Projects
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