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Geekville -- A Social Architecture for Agility
Jim Highsmith
Injecting Tough Love into Management
Steve Andriole
Here's a schizophrenic trend we need to understand: On the one hand, there are new collaborative business models that require speed and agility; but on the other, we're still laboring under "consensus management" practices that inhibit our ability to maneuver quickly. Is there a new trend emerging, one that collapses the distance between decisionmaking speed and consensus?
Web Services and Service-Oriented Architectures
Paul Harmon
Taking the Emotion Out of Project Decisions
Pamela Hollington
Most of us have witnessed or been involved in project decisions "gone wrong." This includes systems that go live before they are really ready, budget overruns that drain resources from other projects, and resource allocations that are made in the hopes of "getting the project done."
Data Quality Defined
Thomas Redman
For more on IT's role in improving data quality, see the January 2003 issue of Cutter IT Journal, available from Cutter Consortium at +1 781 641 9876, fax +1 781 648 1950, or e-mail
Alignment the Old-Fashioned Way: Aggressively Managing Risk
Robert Charette
If your organization has crafted a winning business strategy but cannot implement it, or possesses superb implementation capability but has a vague and ill-defined business strategy, don't be surprised to find that a business-IT misalignment problem exists.
Risk Management and Project Radar
Michael Mah
Ultimately, It's the "Network"
Peter Ofarrell
CRM: Strategy or Technology?
Paul Harmon
A group of packaged application vendors, including Siebel, SAP, UpShot, Avaya, Knowlagent, and PeopleSoft, is currently running a special advertising section on customer relationship management (see CRM).
The Discipline of Lucid Code
Jeff Gainer
Recently I was asked a puzzling question: "In a chaotic software development environment, what's the single most important practice for process improvement? If you could recommend just one practice for a 'level zero' environment, what would it be?"
Measurement Strategy: Leveraging What You Know
Steve Andriole
For more on metrics and IT performance, see the November 2002 issue of Cutter Benchmark Review, available from Cutter Consortium at +1 781 641 9876, fax +1 781 648 1950, or e-mail
Even More Extreme Project Management -- Part 3, Analyzing and Managing Stakeholders
Rob Thomsett
Even More Extreme Project Management series: Part 1 -- A Word from Your Sponsor
A Real-Time War
Paul Harmon
Analytic Marketing Integration
Raymond Pettit
Despite all the coverage and discussion of marketing automation software and CRM "analytics," mainstream IT analysts and advisors are missing a very subtle point.
The Impact of Sagent's Sale to Group 1
Curt Hall
Four Strategies for Dealing with Burnout
Doug Decarlo
For more on burnout, see the December 2002 issue of Cutter IT Journal, available from Cutter Consortium at +1 781 641 9876, fax +1 781 648 1950, or e-mail service@cutt
Project Execution
Jim Highsmith
Software Risk Management Important for Achieving Success
Cutter Consortium
In a recent study by Cutter Consortium, 24% of respondents reported that they think their organization believes software risk management is very useful and effective, 46% think that it is somewhat useful or effective, 14% think that it is not very useful or effective, and 16% say that their organization has not yet made a determination about the usefulness of software risk management.