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To survive the pace of business and technology change that your organization is experiencing in today's world, you need a repeatable requirements management methodology. You also need a methodology that provides insight into project requirements before you spend serious money. The requirements management methodology described briefly in this Executive Summary may fulfill that need.
Tony Candito, CIO of New England Financial (NEF), has been with the company since 1974. He is responsible for a staff of approximately 800 people in multiple locations. In this Executive Update, Candito talks about his most recent challenge, combining NEF's IT department with a portion of the IT department of its parent company, Metlife.
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How to Act Like a Startup
What must a software manager know best? What knowledge is both distinctive and crucial for success in managing a software organization? All managers need to know how to manage people; that's not distinctive to software managers. Knowledge of technology is distinctive, but there are many examples of excellent software managers who are not technical gurus. What is it that produces the results by which a software manager is judged? Their software process.
WHAT SOFTWARE MANAGERS MUST KNOW BEST 27 October 1999 by Richard E. Zultner
What must a software manager know best? What knowledge is both distinctive and crucial for success in managing a software organization?
JUST SAY NO TO SOFTWARE ESTIMATION 20 October 1999 Michael Mah
At a recent conference on software development, I surveyed the 100 or so members of the audience who filled the room to hear about the dynamics of imposed deadlines and the impact on quality and reliability.