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WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A 'CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER?' 12 August 1998
August 11, 1998 | Authored By: Tom DeMarco
BT & DTS Domain Organizational Matters
July 31, 2001 | Authored By: Tom DeMarco, Cutter Business Technology Council
Note: The present Council Opinion is the second of three on the subject of a pandemic -- an extensive disruption of our information infrastructure due to natural or malicious causes.
A contract is a kind of specification. Instead of describing a new system, it describes a business agreement.
Note: The present Council Opinion is the first of three on the subject of a pandemic -- an extensive disruption of our information infrastructure due to natural or malicious causes.
Domain: IT Industry
Assertion #59: Risk management will become pervasive in organizations that undertake IT system construction or procurement.
Syllabus
The discipline of risk management is explicitly focused on endeavors where the unknowns are large and potentially
Collaborating on work across distances has always been difficult. We fly groups together to work temporarily as a single team on a critical project issue. We have regularly scheduled conference calls; we have videoconferencing rooms. We rely deeply on e-mail to stay in step. We try to build single Web-based repositories of project knowledge that are accessible throughout an organization. It has all been a struggle. Distance is misunderstanding. Distance is wrong interfaces. Distance is friction. But now we are witnessing the positive effects of distance beginning to shrink. The next generation of collaboration tools is here, or at least the early arrivals are here. Broadband access is the underlying technology for all these tools. The videoconference room is dead, and collaboration is moving out of meetings and into its most useful place: the daily lives of project members.
This article is a compilation of contributions from the Guest Editor’s colleagues at the Atlantic Systems Guild, who believe that the work modes of the pandemic years may have signaled a change in the way we need to work from now on. The article is organized into six potential patterns, from reinvention of the office, the value of group work, and challenges of remote work to work-life-balance, team cohesion difficulties, and the potential to move to an entirely virtual model.
March 18, 2022 | Authored By: Tom DeMarco, Peter Hruschka, Tim Lister, James Robertson, Suzanne Robertson
Topic Summary The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there. — L.P. Hartley, opening lines of The Go-Between (1953)
April 30, 2009 | Authored By: Tom DeMarco, Lou Mazzucchelli, Tim Lister, Lynne Ellyn, Robert Austin, Christine Davis
Culture is defined by the customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular social group. Workplace culture is the environment that you create for your employees. This includes the mix of organizational leadership, values, traditions, beliefs, interactions, behaviors, and attitudes that contribute to the emotional and relational environment of the workplace. The authors define six drivers that determine the culture of a workplace and provide insight on how these drivers interact to create an environment that is either enabling and energizing or toxic and debilitating, with an extended discussion of the perceived value of people and teams.
April 8, 2020 | Authored By: Steve McMenamin, Tom DeMarco, Peter Hruschka, Tim Lister, James Robertson, Suzanne Robertson
The connections between culture and performance are complex, reciprocal, and anything but obvious. But you need to care about them. The more you care about performance, the more you need to care about culture.
April 29, 2021 | Authored By: Steve McMenamin, Tom DeMarco, Peter Hruschka, Tim Lister, James Robertson, Suzanne Robertson
Domain System Architecture Assertion #11 A willingness to invest in cross-family architectures will distinguish successful from unsuccessful IT user organizations.
August 31, 2000 | Authored By: Tom DeMarco, Cutter Business Technology Council, Cutter Business Technology Council, Cutter Business Technology Council
Domain Organizational matters
March 31, 2004 | Authored By: Tom DeMarco, Cutter Business Technology Council, Cutter Business Technology Council, Cutter Business Technology Council
Domain IT industry
May 31, 2005 | Authored By: Tom DeMarco, Cutter Business Technology Council, Cutter Business Technology Council, Cutter Business Technology Council
Domain Market mechanisms Assertion 174: Apple's App Store represents a new value proposition, one that is likely to have far-reaching consequences for the IT world.
July 31, 2008 | Authored By: Tom DeMarco, Cutter Business Technology Council, Cutter Business Technology Council, Cutter Business Technology Council
The critical 20th-century management skill -- making things and people fit into systems that execute efficiently -- will inevitably be transcended by a different 21st-century critical management skill: creating the conditions in which people of widely varying backgrounds, behaviors, and inclinations can maximize their particular contributions to economic value. This is certainly happening in most firms in developed economies, yet most managers (especially IT managers) have not yet come to grips with it.
September 1, 2015 | Authored By: Robert Austin, Tom DeMarco, Lynne Ellyn, Mark Seiden, Lou Mazzucchelli, Ronald Blitstein, Tim Lister
Domain Collaboration
May 31, 2003 | Authored By: Tom DeMarco, Cutter Business Technology Council, Cutter Business Technology Council, Cutter Business Technology Council
Domain Security
August 31, 2003 | Authored By: Tom DeMarco, Cutter Business Technology Council, Cutter Business Technology Council, Cutter Business Technology Council