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Get That IT Project Back on Track

Lynne Nix
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Ways of Managing Risk

Robert Charette

[Excerpted from an article in the September 1992 Cutter IT Journal (formerly American Programmer.]


Engineering Effective Teams

Laurent Bossavit

If you manage software efforts, you are today facing a broader range of choices than ever before. Should you move work offshore, keep it all on one site, or distribute it across several offices? Current technology makes any of these possible but it doesn't provide the wisdom to choose effectively.


The Mindset of an Agile Leader

Christopher Avery
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Offshore and Agile

Jim Highsmith

MDA and Java

Paul Harmon

An Agile Plan

Mike Cohn

15 Tips for Responsible Computing

Cutter Consortium, Cutter Consortium
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The Case for Digital Identity Management

Cutter Consortium

The complexity of the issues surrounding identity management -- managing user access to applications and information based on proof of identity -- is exploding as a direct result of the connectivity underlying the Internet.


Out of Scope, Out of Mind

Ken Orr
"If the map and the territory disagree, go with the territory."

Reorienting Performance Measures to a Business-Centric View, Part 2

Bob Benson, Tom Bugnitz, Tom Bugnitz, Tom Walton, William Walton, William Walton, Kaleb Walton
  Reorienting Performance Measures to a Business-Centric View Part 1 Part 2

60 New Models a Year

Paul Harmon

Adjusting Internal Metrics to Fit Outsourced Development

Barbara Beech

Two years into my work on my company's metrics program, senior management decided to outsource all the development work. Obviously, this changed things a lot. Suddenly, defining the right service levels for the outsource contract became critical and metrics collection became very important!

What we found out: