Your business model is the manner in which you charge customers for your products or services -- the way you make money. Every software business model is associated with a license model. A license model is 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.

Traditional plan-driven project management methods offer (a hope at least) project results to be predictably achieved; that planned costs, schedules, and functionality (scope) can be achieved by careful planning and control measures combined with repeatable processes.

Recent experiences have taught me that there are different ways we can treat information given to us by others. A few months ago, I was working with a contractor on the opposite coast who was building a hardware and software system. We sent the contractor a statement of work and a product specification. The contractor's group was working on a high-level design and sent us several preliminary ideas.

Events are usually associated with process control systems and other applications that function in a dynamic manner. The team revising the Object Management Group's UML notation has gone to quite a bit of effort in creating the new 2.0 version of UML, to separate event or state diagrams from activity or workflow diagrams.

The evaluation of information systems (IS) has attracted an amount of concern among practitioners [1]. This interest has resulted in an increasing belief that the current approach to IS management has to change. IS are taking too long to develop, costing too much to produce and maintain, and are not frequently perceived to be delivering the business benefits that were intended.

Pick a project that you consider to be important. Ask yourself, "Is this project in a good mood or in a bad mood?" If this "gut feel" test turns out to be "bad mood," the first step is to apply a mood-altering process. I learned this the hard way.

Michael Porter, in his important book, Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance and in several Harvard Business Review articles that have appeared more recently, has argued that companies achieve competitive advantage by creating large-scale processes that are so well integrated that com

Wireless business intelligence (BI) consists of delivering data access and analysis to mobile corporate users of cell phones and other Web-enabled devices, including PDAs such as Palm, RIM, and Windows CE handheld platforms that are now popular among business professionals and other mobile workers. Today's wireless BI applications may provide two types of capabilities that offer varying degrees of interactivity: push and pull.