| Bold Leap Forward Getting the business to accept responsibility and authority for the scope of systems (the major organizational implication of Extreme Programming) is reasonable and possible, the results are satisfying and valuable. | ||
September 2002
In this issue:- September 2002 Cutter IT Journal -- XP and Culture Change
- XP and Culture Change: Opening Statement
- The Unbearable Lightness of Programming: A Tale of Two Cultures
- Using XP for Safety-Critical Software
- Are You Mature Enough for XP?
- When and Where Agile Succeeds
- Extreme India
- Freeing the Slave with Two Masters
September 2002
Although the US IT workforce has grown by 1% ... since the beginning of the year, the short-term hiring outlook continues to remain bleak ... [jobless] IT professionals [with] in-demand skills ... point the finger at H-1B visa holders and offshore programming outfits, where a growing number of companies are shifting their development and maintenance work to reduce costs.
-- Thomas Hoffman, ComputerWorld, 23 September 2002
In this issue:- The Overseas Option: A Status Report on Software Development Outsourcing
- The Impact of the Recession on Overseas Outsourcing
- If the Project Manager Is in San Diego, Can the Application Team Be in Fort Worth?
- DSD Under the Microscope: An Up-Close Look at Distributed Software Development Organizations
- Are Companies Really Satisfied with Their Strategic Choice of DSD?
- Outsourcing and Web Services: More Than Just Cost-Saving Tools
August 2002
In this month's CBR, we take on a classic issue: software estimation. It's a classic because it looks, on the surface, like something we ought to have figured out by now. There's a "way it's supposed to work" that looks plausible. That way -- the "objective estimation" version -- goes something like this:
August 2002
In this issue:- August 2002 Cutter IT Journal -- Plotting a Testing Course in the IT Universe
- Plotting a Testing Course in the IT Universe: Opening Statement
- Testing As a Component of an Organizational IT Risk Management Strategy
- Consider the Consequences: Risk-Based Testing Strategies
- Making the Hard-to-Accept Aspects of QA Acceptable
- Testing in XP
- Standards Versus Agility: Working Toward Success in Software Testing
- Validating Agile Models
July 2002
One message that comes through loud and clear from this month's CBR on Web services is that we (i.e., the IT industry) are not yet at all sure what we mean by these two words. Maybe that's not surprising. It is the latest buzz phrase, and judging from the data presented in the articles that follow, everybody is piling on this bandwagon (we may not know what it is, but most of us are pretty sure we're doing it). Buzz phrases are vague by nature, and when people start piling on, definitions usually get hazier.
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