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RETHINKING THE ROLE OF TESTING FOR THE E-BUSINESS ERA by James Bach © 2000 by Satisfice, Inc.
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Funding: A Tool for Business-IT Alignment
It is hard to overemphasize the importance of communication to business-IT alignment. Without communication -- good communication -- all is lost. Business will follow its path, IT will follow its path, and ne'er the twain shall meet. With communication, the exchange of goals and ideas leads to mutual understanding, which provides the basis for coordinated business-IT plans. Since business-IT alignment can't even get off the ground without this step, there is no question that the importance of communication is of the highest order.
TALK AMONGST YOURSELVES ... The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual
by Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, and David Weinberger
by Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, and David Weinberger
Everyone involved in software development knows the labor market is very tight. It's hard to find good people for almost any important task. In the past few months, the Cutter Consortium conducted a survey to determine what the demand was for developers of distributed, component-based systems.
One requirement for e-business is that IT professionals' skills be both "deep and wide." They should have a strong technical foundation in a number of areas, and they have to be more attuned to what's happening in their nontechnical business arena than was required before e-business.
If we lived in a perfect Internet world, an e-commerce1 site would meet the needs of its customers in terms of providing an effective user interface, meaningful information, easy navigation, fast performance, high reliability, and ongoing security.