Is agile project management and development incompatible with other approaches? Much has been written about agile versus CMM (the Software Engineering Institute's Capability Maturity Model) or agile versus PMBOK (the Project Management Body of Knowledge), but are these approaches, practices, philosophies, and knowledge incompatible?

The consolidation of the business intelligence (BI) market continues with the recent announcement that data warehouse extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) tools vendor Informatica is buying mainframe data integration software vendor Striva Corporation for approximately US $62 million in a cash-and-stock transaction.

I've been following Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Rob Thomsett's Advisor series, and he's got me thinking.

The following are excerpts from the August 2003 Columbia Accident Incident Board (CAIB) report on the Columbia Shuttle disaster:

Everyone likes Scrum. What's not to like? Scrum increases productivity, improves return on investment, delivers useful functionality every month, and helps everyone enjoy working. Yet everyone wants to tinker with it, to improve it, to increase its accuracy, to make it more amenable to his or her culture.

There has been quite a bit of talk in the press recently about a Japanese proposal to create an open source PC operating system for Asia. In essence, the Japanese government has suggested to China, South Korea, and other countries that Japan might be willing to invest about $86 million (1 billion Yen) in a foundation to undertake such an effort.