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This is the final Executive Update in a three-part series exploring the implications of two key technological trends: (1) the move toward the syndication rather than the simple publishing of Web content and (2) the shift from hosting Web applications to providing Web services. Both of these trends change the ways that firms seek to create and capture value through content/functionality.
It is depressing to see that the "Jumping the Radioactive Walrus" syndrome is alive and well in the US as well as in Japan. According to a recent report by the US Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, the safety culture at the Hanford nuclear waste treatment and immobilization plant in Washington State is "flawed and effectively defeats" the 20-year Department of Energy (DOE) requirement that there be "a culture that encourages setting and maintaining high standards.
Recently, my old friend and colleague Conrad Weisert sent me an enormously important new manifesto, entitled "Programming Standards & Methodology Manifesto,"1 which argues that software engineering should focus on the product rather than the process. And he does this in little over a page of clearly articulated prose.
Outsourcing suppliers, not surprisingly -- given their close-up view and their numerous bidding and contract experiences -- can be very insightful about clients. What they would tell clients if they could is a mix of observation and frequently helpful advice that ranges from the objective to the self-interested.