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Are You Ready Yet?
Robert Charette
Is Customer Satisfaction a Good Measure?
Bob Benson, Tom Bugnitz, Tom Bugnitz, Tom Walton, William Walton, William Walton, Kaleb Walton
Enterprise Portals and EA for Business Integration
Clive Finkelstein
An End to E-Mail? Are You Nuts?
Jessica Lipnack, Jeffrey Stamps, Jeffrey Stamps
Process-Aware Business Intelligence
Curt Hall
Traditional/Agile Hybrids
Robert Wysocki
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Distractions
Laurent Bossavit
Here's a concern I've heard recently: "Proponents of Agile software development recommend collocating all the developers in a single workspace. But the last time I was in such a situation, I simply couldn't get my work done -- I'd never go more than half an hour without being interrupted by someone with a question or a problem."
Ethics and Duty of Care
Julia Allen
Mobile and Wireless Computing at a Crossroads: Where Are We Heading?
San Murugesan
Mobile computing and communications technologies are making rapid advances and are gaining widespread adoption worldwide. They are weaving into the fabric of our everyday life and work and beginning to transform them in ways that were impossible a few years ago. It seems that we are heading for a new paradigm that might be called a mobile revolution.
Ten Cheap Actions to Improve Your IT Performance, Part 2
Kent Beck, Craig Hill, Jameson Hill, Peter Hill, Kent Hill
SOA Is More Than Web Services
Mike Rosen
DCF As the Wrong Tool
Steven Kursh
Outsourcing Measurement Myths
Thomas Cagley, Jr.
Myth: "We can agree on a contract now, and then agree on how to measure it later."
Reality: Not in your wildest dreams!
Measurement: The Key to Successful Governance
David Herron
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Extreme Iterations
Jim Highsmith
I've often wondered about the split between new development, enhancement, and maintenance in an agile development world. While there are differences between software product companies and IT organizations in how they handle these types of development, the common theme is dividing the organization to handle different categories of development.
Managing Firefighting Teams
Rick Brenner
Firefight series: Firefight Mode: How Did We Ever Get into This Fix?
Selling Infrastructure
Ken Orr
My friend Bob Courtney used to say that in risk management there were two kinds of risks that people had trouble dealing with: those that happened several thousand times a day and cost a few cents or a few dollars, and those that happened once every couple hundred years and cost millions (or billions) of dollars.
Ten Cheap Actions to Improve Your IT Performance, Part 1
Kent Beck, Craig Hill, Jameson Hill, Peter Hill, Kent Hill
Is it a Process or a Service?
Mike Rosen
Offshore Outsourcing -- How We Started
Mark Miller
A business unit (about US $700M in revenue) within my company was strategically trying to align its staff and infrastructure resources into a highly variable model. It was encountering significant peaks and valleys in demand, both from an infrastructure and a software development perspective. It wanted the most cost-effective model, reducing operational baseline costs as much as possible.
Shaking Up the Market: Oracle Buys Siebel Systems
Curt Hall
No doubt about it, you've got to hand it to Oracle CEO Larry Ellison: the most important event to take place concerning the enterprise software market since Oracle's acquisition of PeopleSoft is Oracle's new move to buy Siebel Systems for US $5.9 billion. Siebel is the CRM market leader. Thus, with this single acquisition, Oracle becomes the number-one CRM vendor.