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Executive Update
Evaluating An Outsourcer's CMM Documentation
The latest statistics from the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) show that the number of Capability Maturity Model (CMM) software assessments is rising and that more software development organizations are attaining higher maturity levels than ever before.
THE HIGH-TECH HISTORIAN -- HISTORICAL DATA ANALYSIS by Jim Heires
What does the data mean?
Article
The Wisdom of Patterns
THE WISDOM OF PATTERNS by Richard T. Dué
"Why bother writing patterns that just boil down to advice my grandmother would give me?"
WHAT IS KNOWLEDGE?
In the past few years, we have been exposed to several dozen definitions of knowledge, usually as a first step in presenting yet another definition of knowledge management. Our intention here is (alas) exactly the same, although in this Executive Report we focus on the human cognition end of the spectrum of definitions.
PATTERN LANGUAGES IN PRACTICE:
Executive Summary
Achieving Cultural Business-IT Integration
"The most important economic development of our lifetime has been the rise of a new system for creating wealth, based no longer on muscle but on mind." --
Alvin Toffler
ENHANCING THE UNIFIED PROCESS WITH PROCESS PATTERNS by Scott W. Ambler
The Unified Process [11] is the latest endeavor of Rational Corporation, the same people who introduced what has become the industry-standard object modeling notation, the Unified Modeling Language (UML).
Executive Update
Strategies, Linkage, and Relationships
Cutter Consortium recently launched a new business-IT strategies survey (if you haven't had a chance to participate, please go to www.cutter.com/consortium/index_surveys.html and complete the online questionnaire). This survey will be kept open as long as it produces valuable data.