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Insight
WHY CRITICAL CHAIN FOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT?
Software organizations are implementing software critical chain project management to substantially reduce the elapsed time of their projects without adding resources (or increasing overtime), narrowing the project scope, increasing risk, or cutting quality of the delivered system. As a by-product, late projects are virtually eliminated.
Domain Syllabus
E-Business
Assertion #42The wireless Web will turn out to be bigger than the wired one; moreover, the wireless Web revolution will happen faster than the wired (current) version of the Internet.
Q: What do Nokia, Ericsson, and DoCoMo have in common?
Executive Update
Strategies for I.T. Project Execution
In Cutter Consortium's ongoing business-IT strategies survey, 68% of respondents have formal business strategies, and 61% have formal IT strategies. We might expect these numbers to be closer to 100%, but many companies do not focus their energies on developing strategies. But what about the other end of the planning-doing spectrum -- IT projects? How do companies execute these?
Figure 1 -- How would you describe the overall quality of the data in your company?
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Obsession with technology often leads us to miss the obvious in our search for the inobvious. Customer relationship management (CRM) is no exception, with the data mining, Web warehousing, clickstream tracking, and channel integration solutions that are being feverishly deployed by e-businesses.
As Y2K infrastructure build-up and retooling efforts wind down, corporate America is focusing on the development of software applications that will enhance its service offerings. E-business and customer relationship management (CRM) initiatives are the two main areas of such growth. The media have cultivated the e-business sound bite but have been slow to publicize CRM.
