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Two of the most common questions I am asked regarding process analysis and rework are "How do I know when I am done modeling?" and "How can I tell if the model is a good one?" Note that these questions are asked
As I pointed out in the previous article, business leaders face their greatest challenge in providing strategic vision, the raison d'être for the company.
In ITMS last month, I discussed at length the top 10 reasons measurement programs fail:
1. Betting the measurement program on a single metric.
For many years, I studied a phenomenon I call "death-march" projects. You may think it's a strange term, and that it has little or nothing to do with your work - but I'm convinced that it has become the norm, not the exception, in the application development field. In this article, I want to discuss the kinds of software tools and software processes that should be used on such projects.
In the September 1996 ITMS I summarized the overall findings of my annual Industry Watch Study. This annual event focuses on the following high-level IT parameters:
Testing Internet Software
Copyright 1996 by James Bach. All rights reserved.
Legacy Applications on the Web
For the second time in a decade, many in our industry are preparing to put a new face on their most strategic information assets -- their databases and the processes that look after them.

