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Managing Alignment Risks -- Part III: Ranking Risk and Developing Responses
Alexandre Rodrigues
Managing Alignment Risks series: Part I
Developing Project Management Competency
Alexandre Rodrigues
MDA in 2004
Paul Harmon
The Object Management Group (OMG) continues to work on its Model Driven Architecture (MDA) standard. There are a number of ways to describe MDA. From the OMG's perspective, it's a set of specifications. From a vender perspective, those specifications are potential products. And from a user's perspective, some of the MDA products can prove very valuable.
Business and License Model Symbiosis
Luke Hohmann
Your business model is the manner in which you charge customers for your products or services -- the way you make money. Associated with every software business model is a license model, which is made up of the terms and conditions (or rights and restrictions) that you grant to a user and/or customer of your software as defined by your business model.
Avoiding Show-Stopping Project Risks
Chris Verhoef
Think Introspective, Not Retrospective -- Why Wait Until the End
Lynne Nix
For more on agile software development, join Cutter's Agile Software Development and Project Management Advisory Service.
Better Ideas, Better Projects
Bob Benson
Distributed Architectures in 2004
Paul Harmon
The year 2003 is drawing to a close. It hasn't been an exciting year from an economic perspective. Most companies are just beginning to feel some new economic energy and are only starting to plan what they might do if they were to spend some money. On the other hand, standards groups and research efforts have advanced a lot in the past two years and companies have many options.
What Software Managers Must Know Best
Richard Zultner
Answering Big Questions 1-3
Ken Orr
In a previous Advisor (see " Five Big Questions," 4 December 2003), I suggested that executives and professionals looking at launching big new projects ought to ask themselves five big questions:
How Software Modeling Tools Are Being Used
Tom Welsh
For more on software modeling, see the November 2003 issue of Cutter Benchmark Review, available from Cutter Consortium at +1 781 641 9876, fax +1 781 648 1950, or e-mail service@cutter.com.
Should I Outsource My BI?
Ken Collier
[Today's Sourcing and Vendor Relationships E-Mail Advisor excerpts the Cutter Consortium Executive Report " Outsourcing your Business Intelligence: Maximize Impact and Minimize Investment." We chose it because we are sure you'll find this a thought-provoking piece on business intelligence activities as candidates for outsourcing.]
2004 Will Be a "Good" Year
Steve Andriole
Developing Enterprise Web Services
Paul Harmon
Checking Out and Checking In
Jim Brosseau
Minimizing the element of surprise on software projects is always a good thing. At all levels of the organization, surprise and redirection are pains that can have devastating results.
Improving ROI by Valuing Features
Jim Highsmith
Outsourcing Motives, Objectives, and Expectations
Wendell Jones
For more on outsourcing, join Cutter's Sourcing and Vendor Relationships Advisory Service. For more information, contact Cutter Consortium at +1 781 641 9876, fax +1 781 648 1950, or e-mail service@cutter.com.
Managing Offshore Expectations
Tushar Hazra
Clusters, Concepts, and Chasms
Steve Andriole
So what is grid computing? Is it a technology concept, a real technology, or a whole technology cluster? What about voice recognition technology, semantic understanding, and the Segway? Are they concepts, emerging technologies, or part of larger technology clusters?