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November 2003
In this issue:November 2003
Let me begin this issue of CBR with a statement of full disclosure: I have not often been a fan of modeling-based approaches to software development, at least not in some of their common manifestations. Software modeling is a practice that often, in my opinion, succumbs to a "forest for the trees" problem. Managers confronting business problems are often justified when they ask, amid mind-numbing discussions about abstract diagrams of yet-to-be-built systems, whether modeling efforts truly move them toward real solutions in an efficient manner.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.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
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
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