I've been rather amused by the number of Y2K-related e-mail messages I've received since 11 September -- though I dearly wish that the events that prompted those messages had never occurred.

In one form or another, computing people have always worked in teams. As a result, the implementation of self-managing teams into computing groups should be easy, but, as Larry Constantine has noted, putting a bunch of computer people together and calling them a team does not make them a team.

As I was sitting down to write this month's commentary, an e-mail appeared on my PC. It was Rob Austin's 19 September 2001 Business-IT Strategies E-Mail Advisor on the dangers of a pure profit-maximizing mentality in outsourcing decisions.

This article is summarized from the forthcoming book, Agile Modeling, to be published in late 2001 by John Wiley & Sons.

The Standish Group's Chaos reports (the 1994 original study and the recent 2001 update) have caused a tremendous waste of IT dollars. Just look at tool site after tool site -- project management, collaboration, software development, modeling tools -- the numbers from the Chaos report are given as a key reason for buying particular products.

As I write, the opening moments of the recent tragic events in New York City and Washington, DC, are barely a day past. The ruins of the twin towers are still smoking. I'm still processing it all, as are many others.

This Advisor examines several key mechanisms and abstractions, which can facilitate the overall architectural reengineering of legacy code.

Legacy applications share some common characteristics:

According to Cutter Consortium, business-IT alignment is better than ever!