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Assertion #21E-business and e-commerce are emerging as powerful economic drivers for integrated applications and are pushing organizations into premature integration solutions.
We have always been self-confident here at sd&m and convinced that we are very good, even among the best. But it is something else if the same is said by Tom DeMarco and McKinsey. Tom reached his verdict in 1994 after reviewing us for several days, and consultants from McKinsey scrutinized sd&m in the context of their analysis of the "Secrets of Software Success" [4].
In Cutter Consortium's recent Council Opinion " E-Business and E-Commerce as Drivers of Integration Solutions ," Council Fellow Jim Highsmith wrote that "the number-one e-business driver seems to be fear" -- as in fear of being "Amazoned." He went on to say that there are other drivers, including customer acquisition and alliance management.
There is a worldwide software process movement afoot, largely inspired by the work of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), with its five-level Capability Maturity Model® for Software (Software CMM®) [5].1 There are annual software process conferences in the US (the Software Engineering Process Group [SEPG] Conference is approaching 2,000 attendees), Europe, India,
As we move into the new millennium, anticipating a host of new technological advancements in every aspect of our lives, there will be one constant that we will continue to expect -- quality. The desire for it, the expectation of it, the search for it will drive the decisions we will make as consumers.
Would you like to be part of a world-class IT organization? Of course you would -- it's like asking whether a basketball fan would like to be a member of the Chicago Bulls team that won three consecutive championships with Michael Jordan, or whether a small-town violinist would like to play with the New York Philharmonic. Similarly, would you like to be recognized as a world-class IT professional?