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One of the most interesting sessions at this year's Cutter Summit conference was the one on XP. If you haven't been keeping up with your buzzwords lately, XP is the abbreviation for extreme programming; one of the leading spokesmen on the topic, Kent Beck, gave the keynote address, and a spirited debate took place during the panel session that followed.
Over the past few months, there has been a lot of debate and discussion amongst Cutter Consortium Senior Consultants about the merits of various IT tools, technologies, and techniques. Light versus heavy methods, pair programming versus traditional individual programming, agile versus strict modeling, philosophers versus practitioners, and so on.
We hear a lot about hackers getting into corporate computers and the impact of viruses on worker productivity. What we don't hear about is the impact of poor security policies on worker productivity. I consult a lot with organizations around the world, and I am seeing an interesting trend with corporate security: as corporate managers become more afraid, enterprise security becomes more intrusive.
With the dot-com shakeout and the general malaise infecting the economy, you'd almost think that business intelligence (BI) analytics for business-to-consumer (B2C) personalization had become a dirty term. Last year at this time, vendors were tripping over themselves to enter the B2C analytics and "personalization" market.
