Agile software development has emerged as a viable option for enhancing speed of delivery and customer satisfaction in systems development projects. With the viability of Agile approaches now beyond suspicion, we at CBR thought an issue on how to make the Agile approach stick in your organization would provide the most ROR (return on reading).

In this issue of CBR, we focus on emergency preparedness and disaster recovery planning. Our goal is to help you build a resilient organization — one that will be in the best position possible to "weather the storm."

In this issue of CBR, we tap the expertise of three "in-world" pioneers and experts. Based on their experience both consulting with companies that have staked a claim in-world and their own firsthand experiences, they help us understand the basic characteristics and the potential of the 3D Internet and virtual worlds -- or multi-user virtual environments (MUVEs), as they are more precisely called.