From 2000 to 2002, there was an intriguing and active debate about the relative merits of Extreme Programmin
December 18, 2007 | Authored By: Tom DeMarco
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During a recent Cutter Business Technology Council meeting, we hashed over the "Moat" opinion for nearly two hours.
August 26, 2008 | Authored By: Tom DeMarco
During a recent Cutter Business Technology Council meeting, we hashed over the "Moat" opinion for nearly two hours.
August 27, 2008 | Authored By: Tom DeMarco
It's no secret that today's college students have trouble writing clear text.
November 17, 2009 | Authored By: Tom DeMarco
Efficiency and productivity were the watchwords of the late 20th century, but today the emphasis needs to be more on agility. The prescription for organizational agility is markedly different from the prescription for efficiency and productivity.
November 10, 2015 | Authored By: Tom DeMarco
When Adam Smith wrote about the "invisible hand" of the market in The Wealth of Nations, h
October 21, 2008 | Authored By: Tom DeMarco
In the 8 September 2006 issue of MSNBC Newsweek, journalist Andrew Romano tells us something of his
May 8, 2007 | Authored By: Tom DeMarco
Our industry benefited from a surge of IT capital spending in the years leading up to 2000 and has had littl
August 25, 2009 | Authored By: Tom DeMarco
Any IT manager worth his or her salt can give you at least a dozen reasons why waterfall metho
July 30, 2008 | Authored By: Tom DeMarco
At the tender age of 24, I was nominated by the board of directors of my company to be an officer. If the office they were proposing had been President or Vice President it would have been something to write home about, but it wasn't.
August 11, 1998 | Authored By: Tom DeMarco
A New York Times op-ed column by Thomas Friedman told of risk managers using
July 29, 2010 | Authored By: Tom DeMarco
For more information on Cutter Consort
September 12, 2005 | Authored By: Tom DeMarco
Cloud computing is and will be a major trend.
March 3, 2009 | Authored By: Tom DeMarco
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
"Can-do thinking makes risk management impossible. Since acknowledging real risk is defeatism, the risk management function in a can-do organization is restricted to dealing with those smallish risks that can be mitigated by quick action.
August 3, 2006 | Authored By: Jim Highsmith