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APPLICATION INTEGRATION -- PART II by Jim Highsmith APPLICATION INTEGRATION
-- PART II

Application integration (also known as enterprise
application integration -- EAI) product vendors

SOFTWARE ESTIMATION: What We Can Learn from Student Projects by Nancy R.
IT, PACKAGED SOLUTIONS, AND ERP/ERM by Howard Rubin

There is no way to avoid it; a major part of the future world of corporate and inhouse IT is largely being shaped around packaged solutions and a specialized subset of them -- enterprise resource planning (ERP) and enterprise resource management

WHAT'S IN A NUMBER? by Lynne Nix

There's no point in being exact about something if you don't even know what you're talking about.

-- John von Neumann

BUSINESS-DRIVEN ORGANIZATION PRACTICES

This report is about how you should organize your IT professionals both within your company and extending from it. Obviously, this subject is one of the most politically charged areas IT can face. Any time you fool around with organization, trouble can't be far behind.

THE CASE FOR KNOWLEDGE-BASED MICROESTIMATION by Mark Pinis

Imagine you are undertaking a tricky updating of a legacy back office application. The objective is to provide a front end accessible via the company's intranet for data entry and reporting.

This area of alignment -- organization -- is about as tricky as they come. In fact, it's probably the most politically charged alignment area we address. Whenever there's even a rumor of organizational change, everyone's radar immediately goes up.

IT, PACKAGED SOLUTIONS, AND ERP/ERM by Paul Harmon

There is no way to avoid it; a major part of the future world of corporate and inhouse IT is largely being shaped around packaged solutions and a specialized subset of them -- enterprise resource pl