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LEAN DEVELOPMENT by Jim Highsmith Time Is of the Essence

One-third the time, one-third the budget, one-third the defect rate: these are the goals of lean development (LD), a software development management approach originated by Dr. Bob Charette.

INDUSTRY WATCH 1998 by Howard Rubin

With financial markets in turmoil, the typical and atypical election-time political gyrations taking place in the US, and continuing discussions of the year-2000 crisis, what better time is there to look at the change in the IT

THE END GAME: THE RIGHT APPLICATIONS PORTFOLIO

There's a pretty good chance that your applications portfolio is not what it should be. It probably consists of a hodgepodge of applications developed during the past 20 years or so that require some form of life support to exist.

There's a pretty good chance that your applications portfolio is not what it should be. It's probably got a hodge-podge of applications developed over the past 20 years or so that require some form of life support to exist! You've probably got applications that are host-based, some client-server applications, and some Internet applications that are driving your e-business strategy.

Copyright 1998 Object International, Inc. All rights reserved.

"Houston, we have a problem." With these immortal words, the Apollo 13 crew first alerted the Mission Control Center that their flight was starting to experience abnormal conditions.

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

INDUSTRY WATCH 1998 by Howard Rubin

With financial markets in turmoil, the typical and atypical election-time political gyrations taking place in the US, and continuing discussions of the year-2000 crisis, what better time is there to look at the change in the IT la