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Mike is the CIO of a medium-sized industrial firm. His firm outsourced the provision of IT services to a major multinational outsourcing firm. The outsourcing arrangement has now been in place for seven years, and therefore his own internal IS team and the outsourced providers have had ample time to learn how to work with each other.
Executive Update
Enterprise Software Vendors: The State of the Union
When the going gets tough, it is an opportunity for IT to shine. The IT organization offers more leverage for a company than do other departments. The IT organization is the only organization in a company that can positively affect every other organization in that company by helping it reduce costs and/or improve the productivity of its people.
The Agile Triangle, shown in Figure 1, was introduced in Agile Project Management, 2nd Edition and has been the subject of several Cutter Advisors. The Agile Triangle encourages teams to be flexible, agile, and adaptable -- it alters how we view success.
A true craftsman, be he a writer, an actor, or a carpenter, is known for his artistry and the ability to execute tasks to a high level of perfection. When we examine the history of software engineering, however, the components necessary to place this profession alongside other esteemed crafts are often overlooked. Software engineering began similarly to other crafts, where over time rigor and discipline evolved as the profession matured and advanced.
After 60-plus years, it's high time our industry matured into an engineering discipline. By now generic, adaptable design models should have emerged and stood the test of time to become industry-wide standards. Such models would entail the automation of most manual -- and hence error-prone -- aspects of software construction, fine-tuning, and evolution.
In recent years, the "software craftsmanship" movement has articulated a sensibility long shared by senior developers entrusted to build high-functioning, complex systems.