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THE QUALITY REVIEW 10 November 1998 by Jim Highsmith

The basic adaptive management approach is to maintain a focus on the project scope and objective, assign components to the delivery team, stand back and let the team figure out how to deliver the components, and maintain a

The day of catastrophe in the information era is approaching. Companies as well as government agencies are investing enormous amounts of money for the soft landing of computer-controlled systems in the next century. But the Sanwa Bank in Japan is completely nonchalant about the catastrophic day, which is consuming enormous effort and money. Its secret is in the calendar system that it implemented 30 years ago when it started the first generation of banking systems.

WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM Y2000 4 November 1998 by Tomoo Matsubara

The day of catastrophe in the information era is approaching.

ORIGINS OF CONFLICT IN SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT CONTRACTS 3 November 1998 by Capers Jones

Software development has been a difficult technology for many years. Compared to almost any other manufactured object, software development requires more manual labor by skilled craftspeople.

PC-BASED YEAR 2000 TESTING OF MAINFRAME APPLICATIONS by Don Estes

Copyright 1998 by Don Estes. Adapted rom "PC-Based Testing of Mainframe Applications," Year 2000 Journal (October-November 1998).