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Traditional plan-driven project management methods offer (a hope at least) project results to be predictably achieved; that planned costs, schedules, and functionality (scope) can be achieved by careful planning and control measures combined with repeatable processes.
For more on the component quality debate, see the March 2002 issue of Web Services Strategies (formerly Component Development Strategies, available from Cutter Information Corp.
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One benefit of running executive education courses is that I get to talk with a large number of IT executives in a forum that encourages us to think about issues. A few months ago, I helped run one at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that included more than 50 IT executives. During meals and coffee breaks, we spent a good deal of time talking about outsourcing and Web services. An interesting concept emerged. Outsourcing did more than cut costs. It also provided training and discipline that many companies had been sorely missing.
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