With an appropriate level of collaboration, a team can be productive and efficient in delivering
February 9, 2010 | Authored By: Tushar Hazra
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The adoption of a new project management methodology as part of our business practices is always somewhat of a gamble. Will it work? Will it be an improvement over the processes we currently have in place? Will the time, energy, and resources that we invest now in implementing it prove worthwhile in the long run? These are all questions each of us as IT and business professionals must consider as we make decisions to move our organizations forward. Keeping operations humming along in the face of change and (sometimes) major budget crunches and keeping business practices current and in line with industry practices and technology progress are perhaps the greatest ongoing challenges we face. In this issue of Cutter Benchmark Review, we discuss one of the most recent methodologies to enter the spectrum of possible choices for systems development: Kanban.
August 31, 2010 | Authored By: Gabriele Piccoli
When companies grow beyond a handful of individuals or teams, many changes will affect the organization of work and people. At small scale, and for a limited period of time, a team can organically "remember" its own history. This Advisor explores mechanisms beyond that small scale that encourage learning and sharing across the organization.
October 14, 2021 | Authored By: John Heintz
This issue of CBR continues our series on innovation and the role of IT in enabling it.
November 30, 2007 | Authored By: Gabriele Piccoli
Traditional performance management rarely assesses a person's actual performance. Most managers focus instead on one's behaviors and skills.
February 26, 2014 | Authored By: Kamal Manglani
Jorge Silva presents a radical departure from conventional wisdom. He documents his own experience with his software company to suggest that the historical structure of organizations is outdated and needs to be replaced with a new construct, one with minimal hierarchy and no “bosses.” Silva suggests that this new construct releases creativity and innovation, allows organizations to become nimble and adaptable, and engages employees as leaders and owners.
April 8, 2020 | Authored By: Jorge Silva
In this issue of Cutter Benchmark Review, we do our part in unlocking the mystery of Gen-Yers/Net-Geners. We examine the powerful trend toward further integration of technology into everyday productivity and the creative processes of this highly innovative generation. Plus, we discuss ways in which we can successfully integrate these individuals into our organizations to the benefit of all involved.
July 31, 2010 | Authored By: Gabriele Piccoli
August 21, 2002 | Authored By: Doug Decarlo
After a 40-Year Courtship, It's Time for the Business Analyst and the Project Manager to Get Hitched
Systems development, business analysis, and project management are
January 31, 2009 | Authored By: Robert Wysocki
Technological advances in the past 30 years have triggered fundamental changes in business practices. In the past, responsibility for completing a mission and the resources needed to pursue it neatly aligned along organizational boundaries.
June 30, 2006 | Authored By: Christopher Alberts
October 31, 2003 | Authored By: Richard Sneider
There has been a flurry of attraction in the past year in securing public cloud service providers. Further validating this trend, the author predicts that “the trend across the globe will be to go ‘all in’ on just a handful of hyperscale public cloud providers.” He further asserts that “this concentration of risk will become a focus of attention for those charged with mitigating ‘black swan’ risks to the global economy.”
February 5, 2018 | Authored By: James Mitchell
Making business decisions is never easy. It becomes progressively more complicated as those around us offer their "two cents' worth" on how we should act or what practices we should adopt.
October 31, 2008 | Authored By: Carl Pritchard
This issue focuses on the management of the agile enterprise and on understanding how organizations can facilitate and foster agile practices through investments in IT infrastructure and technology practices. As such, the survey our contributors crafted tackles issues of strategy, relative positioning and competition, as well as technology infrastructure, software development methodologies, and IT architecture.
March 31, 2008 | Authored By: Gabriele Piccoli
Have you ever been associated with a project where the execution was flawless, but yet you were unable to achieve the business objectives?
December 27, 2000 | Authored By: Ram Reddy
If you are an executive in a company competing in world markets, a CIO or IS director, or the manager or technical director of a project developing a
December 31, 1997 | Authored By: Frank Mcgrath
Agile work environments are highly sought after as a means of developing high-performance teams.
June 30, 2008 | Authored By: Kalpana Sampath