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The Integration Consortium
Curt Hall
Only Eat When Hungry
Ken Schwaber
For more on agile software development, join Cutter's Agile Software Development and Project Management advisory service.
Harvesting Inventions, Part 1
Michael Lee
The discussion continues in Part 2 (see " Harvesting Inventions -- Approaches for Identifying and Selecting Inventions to Patent," 23 June 2004).
Risk Management: A Simple, Stratified Approach, Part 1
Michael Harris
Risk management is getting to be too complex to use on anything less than a major, multimillion-dollar project. The use of risk management on IT programs is overly complicated. This two-part Bulletin shows one way of cutting through the clutter of risk management tools, status reports, and metrics by adopting a simple, stratified approach.
When IT Isn't Strategic
Michael Mah
Exploring SOA Options
Paul Harmon
The Loss (and Recovery) of Trust
Sam Bayer
For more on project management, see the March 2004 issue of Cutter Benchmark Review. For more information, contact Cutter Consortium at +1 781 641 9876, fax +1 781 648 1950, or e-mail service@cutter.com.
Collective Commitment on Agile Projects
Ken Schwaber
The Strategic IT Plan: The Supply Side of Business-IT Planning
Bob Benson, Tom Bugnitz, Tom Bugnitz, Tom Walton, William Walton, William Walton, Kaleb Walton
IBM's Workplace Client
Paul Harmon
Case Study: Victorian State Government, Australia
International Group
Agile Methods and Global Development
Roman Pichler
Keeping the Wizard's Curtain Closed: Protecting Personal Data
Scott Nathan
For more on sourcing and vendor relationships, join Cutter's Sourcing and Vendor Relationships advisory service.
Agile Control
Jim Highsmith
Security Alignment
William Ulrich
Security is a growing requirement facing companies opening their systems to the Internet. Security experts say that companies are just beginning to understand the implications of allowing outside entities past their firewall using broadband and other emerging technologies. The following questions help determine how well your security strategy is aligned with business requirements.
Persistence Is Turning to Pestilence
Lynne Ellyn
Why Real Options Is the Wrong Approach to Software Valuation
Martha Amram
A number of recent academic papers have attempted to apply real options to software design. Real options is the application of mathematical models from the world of financial options to real or non-financial assets. Because software developers lack a correct and intuitively comfortable way to value their projects, academics believe real options can help.
Flexibility Versus Features
Paul Harmon