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December 2003
In this issue:- Cutter IT Journal: Killing IT Projects
- Killing IT Projects: Opening Statement
- Software Project Escalation and De-escalation: What Do We Know?
- Why Flawed Software Projects Are Not Cancelled in Time
- Project Management, The Movie
- Cancelling a Project in Four Not-So-Easy Steps
- A Losing Gamble with Public Funds: Why Large Public-Sector IT Projects Are More Likely to Fail and Are Harder to Cancel
November 2003
Benchmarking Is a Must
When the demand from management is “show me the value,” consistent, proven processes are essential. You need benchmarks to analyze and improve your software development practices.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
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.
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