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Agile Organizations series:
Part 1

For computer scientists, software engineers, and almost anyone else who works in the IT industry, talking about artificial intelligence (AI) is roughly akin to talking about religion or politics: everyone seems to have a very strong opinion and they tend to articulate those opinions in loud, strident voices.

One of the consequences of the dot-bomb explosion is confusion about what to do about e-business. Is e-business a flash in the pan? Where will e-business go from here? How can we use e-business in our company? Should we? These questions, and more, weigh heavily in many current business and IT strategy-planning efforts.

The recent slowdown of the dot-com area has given many people plenty of time to reconsider software practices and principles. What went wrong? What could we have done differently? How did so many smart people fall into something that wasn't going to work?