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What Devolution Means for CIOs

George Westerman

In last month's Advisor (" The Devolution of E-Business," 27 March 2002), I described how the devolution of e-business, rather than signaling the end of e-business, is really an opportunity for the business as a whole.


Is Your Company Still There? Measurement Is a Survival Tactic

Carol Dekkers

It's been too many quarters since we've heard optimistic forecasts, and time will tell if the optimistic recovery headlines give way to increased IT spending in 2002. With the trauma and events over the last 18 months, Fortune 500 companies have hunkered down, stashed away any reserve funds, pared budgets, eliminated training and travel, furloughed staff, and gone into a survival mode of minimum sustenance.


Management by Biscuit: A Breakthrough to Overcome Resistance

Doug Decarlo

"A man will do anything for a biscuit." --Judy Onos, Project Manager, Bell South


Googling

Ed Yourdon

Adaptive Software Management -- Strategies During an Economic Downturn

Michael Mah

Throughout much of the economic boom times of the mid- to late 1990s, developing software at Internet speed was the rage. Most organizations employed strategies intensely focused on time to market, oftentimes without regard to cost.


What Happened in the 1990s?

Paul Harmon

The 1 April issue of BusinessWeek magazine has an excellent article that provides a review of what actually happened during the last decade ("Restating the '90s" by Michael J. Mandel, http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_13/b3776001.htm).


You Are a Wealth of Knowledge But Does Anyone Know It?

Pamela Hollington

In a previous Cutter IT E-Mail Advisor ( Head, Heart, or Hands: Understanding Your Role), I discussed the need to fully understand your role at work, whether you work internally for an IS group, or whether you work as a consultant.


78% of IT Organizations Have Litigated

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Workflow Today

Paul Harmon

I spent a recent airplane flight between Chicago and San Francisco reading a new survey of workflow systems. The book was the Workflow Handbook 2002 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0970350902/cutterinformatco).


Cell Phones, Instant Messaging, and the Issue of Control

Ed Yourdon
CELL PHONES, INSTANT MESSAGING,

Measures that Matter

Mark Cotteleer

The Importance of Modeling Standards

Scott Ambler

One of Agile Modeling's (AM) supplementary practices is Apply Modeling Standards, the modeling version of Extreme Programming's (XP) Coding Standards practice. The basic idea is that developers should agree to and follow a common set of modeling standards on a software project. Clean code that follows your chosen coding guidelines is easier to understand and evolve than code that doesn't.


How to Create an Outstanding Project

Eduardo Casais

The team members were reviewing the current project progress. Things were in pretty good shape, except that the project was currently going through a turbulent zone. The usual priority changes and resource allocation clashes were taking place.