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Executive Update
Identify Your Outsourcing Pain -- Then Prevent It!
Lucky organizations get it right the first time. Wise organizations learn from their experiences and get it right the next time. Really clever organizations learn not only from their own experiences, but from other organizations in similar situations. Organizations responding to the Cutter Consortium Outsourcing Survey provide useful lessons on where to expect the greatest difficulties in an outsourcing arrangement.
ACHIEVING BUSINESS OBJECTIVES III:
A Real-World Software Process Improvement Implementation by Jim Mayes
"Process improvement challenges -- the process cannot be continuously improved if:
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: