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WEB ENGINEERING:
A Methodology for Developing Scalable,
Executive Report
Alignment Through Learning
There's an old saying that to really understand someone you have to walk a mile in his or her shoes. The underlying lesson is simple: you need to gain that person's perspective if you are to grasp his or her needs and issues. Without perspective, the best we can do is speculate about needs, intents, and motives. Alignment, if it occurs at all, is accidental.
Domain
IT Industry
Assertion #49Litigation is becoming a more common lifecycle phase. It will continue to grow and become a major financial sinkhole until the IT industry reexamines its posture on contracts involving package purchase, contract development, subcontracting, and outsourcing.
Executive Summary
Alignment Through Learning
IT professionals are constantly feeling pressure to become better aligned with the business areas they support. Far too little time is spent explaining why alignment is important and how to go about becoming better aligned. The accompanying Executive Report aims to fill these voids and give IT professionals practical advice for seeking and attaining alignment with the business of their company.
People -- especially skilled, knowledgeable people -- are in great demand today. Organizations are recognizing that fact and trying to react. As a result, concepts like human capital are increasingly popular. Recently, the Cutter Business Technology Council issued an Opinion authored by Tom DeMarco and Peter O'Farrell ( Vol. 2, No.
We're in a period of belt-tightening -- cutting expenses, reducing staff, and decreasing the number of projects we're working on. Managing our project portfolios is one of the hardest problems in IT, and one of the most necessary, because there are always more possible projects than there are people and time to do them.
Executive Update
Effective Outsourcing
Editor's note: A recent assertion from the Cutter Business Technology Council states, "Loss of core competencies will continue. Outsourcing of core competencies will continue and will continue to fail." This assertion will be debated in an upcoming Council Opinion.
Executive Update
Daily Business Operations Benefit from E-Business
Respondents to Cutter Consortium's latest Business-IT Strategies Survey, which focuses on e-business and IT alignment, tend to take a formal approach to IT in general and e-business in particular. This is reflected in the fact that 81% of respondents have a formal IT strategy, and 57% have a formal e-business strategy.