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Applying the SMART Principle to Project Incentives
Pamela Hollington
SMART is an acronym that stands for:
Corporate Training and Support
Curt Hall
"Sheep-Dip Approaches Do Not Work" -- Managers Must Be Committed to Process Improvement
Cutter Consortium, Cutter Consortium
Renovation: Refactoring, Redesign, and Redevelopment
Jim Highsmith
Technology Disclosure Statements
Ed Yourdon
Network Principles into Action
Verna Allee
Business Process Execution Languages for Web Services (BPEL4WS)
Paul Harmon
Most companies are exploring enterprise Web service possibilities. In essence, they are considering building large-scale business processes that cross organizational boundaries. A good example would be a supply chain process that treated supplier, manufacturer, carrier, distributor, and retailer processes as subprocesses within the larger supply chain system.
Experience from the Ground Up
Craig McComb
[Editor's Note: This Cutter IT E-Mail Advisor is a follow up to the Advisor published 19 June 2002, " Business Continuity Planning."]
Business Process Integration
Paul Harmon
Agile Requirements
Jim Highsmith
Ambient Devices
Ed Yourdon
Capitalizing IT Expenses: Another Accounting Land Mine for Corporations
Ram Reddy
In an earlier Advisor (" Know When to Say When: The Difficulty in Discontinuing Failing and Failed IT Projects," 10 July 2002), I had briefly discussed the potential problems with capitalizing IT expenses. In light of recent happenings at WorldCom, what was a potential problem has become a reality.
The Military Parallel
Paul Harmon
This past week, The Economist (20-26 July 2002) published a special survey on the US defense industry. The wide-ranging article touches on many topics, but I like the general comments it makes on strategy.
The Character of Your Code
Luke Hohmann
A favorite quote of mine is, "Reputation is who you are in the light ... character is who you are in the dark." I don't know who said it, but it never fails to motivate me to try and do the best that I can, especially if no one is watching. I've been thinking about this quote a lot lately, especially in relation to the quality of code that developers write.
Business Objects and Informatica
Curt Hall
Agile Project Management in Action -- Part 5, Scope, Objectives, and Added Value Analysis
Rob Thomsett
Agile Project Management in Action series: Part 1 Part 2 -- Shaping the Context
Back to India
Ed Yourdon
There's nothing like an annual trip to the other side of the world to get a good perspective on one's life. It was almost exactly a year ago that I traveled to Bangalore to attend the annual shareholder's meeting of an Indian outsourcing firm that I'm involved with (http://www.mascotsystems.com), and I was curious to see what had changed when I returned again this year.
J2EE, .NET, and Web Services
Paul Harmon
Everyone knows that Microsoft is interested in Web services. It is in the process of rolling out a completely new component model, collectively known as .NET, to support XML, SOAP, and all the associated technologies.
Coping With Project Status Excuses
Pamela Hollington
My favorite status report of all time was one that clearly signified to me that the so-called project manager was not fit for the responsibilities. It was a product selection project where RFPs had been sent to a number of vendors, and the responses needed to be evaluated by a team of reviewers who would make the vendor selection decision.