This month's Cutter Benchmark Review is the second in our annual series on IT budgets and the IT budgeting process. The budgeting process is one of critical importance to IT and business professionals in our subscriber base. This is perhaps even more important today as we continue to see a recovery in IT spending as well as the shifting of priorities away from a narrow focus on cost cutting and efficiency (a trend that we picked up in last year's data).

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."