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Insight

Those of you have been following my Trends and Enterprise Architecture Advisors will recognize that I have become increasingly concerned about software reliability and security and the role that design and complexity play in these areas.

Last September's Cutter IT Journal contains many insightful contributions about 21st-century IT professionals to help you gear up for the new world in which products like smartphones and tablets are playing a growing role (see "21st-Century IT Personnel: Tooling Up or Tooling Down?" Vol. 24, No. 9). The articles touch on the essentials for the 21st-century IT professional, including usability, user interfaces, smart devices, and so on.

I had the good fortune recently to attend a bimonthly breakfast meeting of CIOs. In addition to me, seven of the 23 regular members of the group were in attendance.

In this hour-long on-demand webinar, Cutter Senior Consultant Scott Stribrny distills the strategies and metrics used in many successful requirements projects that could serve as the foundation for your next requirements effort. You’ll get an overview of a useful requirements definition process and discover how to build a specification that unambiguously and completely describes the product your client wants.

With Facebook closing in on one billion people (one in every six people on the planet is on Facebook), it is clear that consumer social networks are having great influence on how the enterprise is now using these technologies.

The effort to make enterprise architecture (EA) more agile is a broad topic. On one hand, there is the successful agile development movement that has influenced and improved system development and project-delivery processes.

Abstract

This Executive Report explores processes in enterprise architecture governance to achieve improved agility using technology advancements in Maven and virtualization.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

"Who will guard the guardians?"

Roman poet Juvenal supposedly asked that question nearly 2,000 years ago, and it is one that often comes to mind when speaking of the current financial crisis as it drags itself into yet another year.