At around 16 pages, Executive Reports offer a deep, strategic look into a cutting edge issue, and serve as foundations to developing your own approaches. Short abstracts on the cover of each report help you immediately understand how the subject matter might impact your enterprise.
The Unintended Beer Game
Lynne Ellyn, Cutter Business Technology Council, Cutter Business Technology Council, Cutter Business Technology Council
Domain
Organizational matters
Assertion 144The increasing complexity, distribution, and fragmentation of organizations is leading to a glut of suboptimal management decision making.
The Unintended Beer Game
Lynne Ellyn, Cutter Business Technology Council, Cutter Business Technology Council, Cutter Business Technology Council
Domain
Organizational matters
Assertion 144The increasing complexity, distribution, and fragmentation of organizations is leading to a glut of suboptimal management decision making.
Are Agile Methods and Enterprise Architecture Compatible? Yes, with Effort
Jim Watson, Mike Rosen, Kurt Guenther
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Agile methods (AM) and enterprise architecture (EA) are emerging disciplines1 for effectively planning and developing computing systems. Many books and papers are devoted to each, describing their principles, processes, artifacts, and pitfalls.
Exposing and Overcoming the Dirty Secrets of Agile Development
Ken Collier, Luke Hohmann, James Hohmann
The Challenge of IT Asset Management
Ken Doughty, Peter Doherty
Many organizations fail to realize both the value and the operational risks associated with their IT assets. Over the years, organizations have invested heavily in information technology; however, most have failed to leverage this investment. In addition, they have inadvertently introduced risks associated with control over these assets into the organization. There are many reasons why organizations should have control of their IT assets, ranging from the day-to-day management of the infrastructure to the need for corporate governance. Therefore, organizations must introduce an IT asset management (ITAM) discipline.
The Software Patent Mess
Cutter Business Technology Council
Eating Our Seed Corn: DARPA Funding for Computer Science R&D and Technology in the 21st Century
Ken Orr, Cutter Business Technology Council, Cutter Business Technology Council, Cutter Business Technology Council
Domain
Government
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Enterprise Architecture Roadmapping
Sebastian Konkol, Wojciech Ozimek, Bartek Kiepuszewski, Bartosz Kiepuszewski, Bartosz Kiepuszewski, Borys Stokalski, Marek Stokalski, Boguslaw Stokalski