Strategic advice to leverage new technologies
Technology is at the heart of nearly every enterprise, enabling new business models and strategies, and serving as the catalyst to industry convergence. Leveraging the right technology can improve business outcomes, providing intelligence and insights that help you make more informed and accurate decisions. From finding patterns in data through data science, to curating relevant insights with data analytics, to the predictive abilities and innumerable applications of AI, to solving challenging business problems with ML, NLP, and knowledge graphs, technology has brought decision-making to a more intelligent level. Keep pace with the technology trends, opportunities, applications, and real-world use cases that will move your organization closer to its transformation and business goals.
Insight
Yes -- it appears to be true. Companies are satisfied with their strategic choice of distributed software development (DSD). The tough challenges of DSD bear sweet fruit at the end of the road -- at least that is what many development organizations have indicated in a recent Cutter Consortium survey on DSD.
Executive Update
A Pocketful of Practices
Alternative development processes such as Extreme Programming (XP), Crystal Methodologies, Scrum, and feature-driven development have received an increasing amount of attention and press over the past two years. These Young Turk methodologies are often characterized by some of their more radical practices, such as pair programming, minimalist architecture, and test zealotry.
Executive Report
Web Services: The Promise for the Future
This Executive Report introduces the concepts and reasons for the rapid growth of Web services for the corporate intranet, extranets, and the Internet. It begins with a nontechnical introduction, relating Web services to other more familiar technologies. It then discusses the concepts of Web services in more technical detail, with some typical examples and applications.
Executive Summary
Web Services: The Promise for the Future
Web services and associated XML technologies have recently been developed to address real time program and code module integration that is both language- and platform-independent. With Web services, APIs, input messages, and output messages are defined using XML.
In the September and November issues of IEEE Computing magazine, Alistair Cockburn and I wrote two articles on agile software development -- "The Business of Innovation" and "The People Factor." Then, in the January 2002 issue, Barry Boehm wrote a very thoughtful article about where agile methods fit within the spectrum of approaches to software development and project management ("Get Ready for