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
I recently gave a full-day tutorial at the Applications of Software Measurement Conference in San Diego, California, USA. Two statements from audience members spoke volumes on the dilemmas IT managers face: "I'd like to hear more on negotiation and less on metrics"; and "I can't do a thing about my deadlines. I also have little leverage regarding the number of people on my team. So I'm left with a monstrous negotiation problem."
This article reports on the results of a Software Engineering Institute (SEI) study that looks at the effects of SEI-style software process maturity on duration, effort (cost), and quality. The results are revealing: using the median case, in going from SEI Capability Maturity Model (CMM) Level 1 to Level 2, a typical business application could save 10 months of development time, 75% of development expenses, and 75% of development errors.
The only source of knowledge is experience.
-- Albert Einstein
It's one thing to talk about being customer focused, it's quite another to actually do it.
During life's more rational moments, no software development executive will ever deny that customer satisfaction is an important goal to achieve. The question is, in the midst of quickly evolving technologies, escalating customer expectations, and increasing competitive pressures, how do you achieve it?
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Volume XI, No. 4; April 2001
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20 April 2001 by Roger Sessions CONTENTS