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Agile Team Structure and Quality: Don't Throw Your Existing Staff into Self-Organizing Teams and Expect Miracles

This Executive Update provides insight into how some organizations approach “creatively destructing” existing teams and creating Agile’s The Team to make it a success; how to construct The Team in terms of deciding how many developers and QA team members to have on it; how to approach quality; and who should be testing what on The Team.
September 2, 2015 | Authored By: Maurizio Mancini

How Will We Know If We're in a Cyber War?

... in the JPMorgan case, according to officials familiar with the briefings, no one could tell the President what he most wanted to know: What was the motive of the attack?
October 23, 2014 | Authored By: Ken Orr

Fork and Pull: New Model for Collaboration

This Executive Update provides an understanding of the concepts behind fork and pull and its possible applications for internal and external software development projects, as well as its potential for other applications.
March 16, 2015 | Authored By: Peter Kaminski

Eric Clemons

Dr. Eric K. Clemons is Professor of Operations and Information Management at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He has been a pioneer in the systematic study of the transformational impacts of information on the strategy and practice of business. His research and teaching interests include strategic uses of information systems, the changes that information technology enables in the competitive balance between new entrants and established industry participants, transformation of distribution channels, the structure and governance of the IT functional area, and the impact…

Serious Games as Tools for Innovation

Serious games provide an attractive alternative to traditional innovation techniques for both participants in the innovation process: technology producers and technology consumers. Whether or not producers and consumers behave like innovation partners, or even realize they are engaged in this partnership, innovation does require at least two participants to play. In the best of all possible partnerships, there is a smooth collaboration between the two players, but, as you'll discover in this issue of Cutter IT Journal, this often this isn't the case.
May 30, 2014 | Authored By: Tom Grant

Improving and Extending Retrospective Outcomes

In this Executive Update, we take a look at application development challenges facing Jake, an inexperienced Agile coach. We then review some ideas and retrospective practices that will help Jake overcome these obstacles and successfully fill his new role as an Agile leader.
March 9, 2015 | Authored By: Diana Larsen

Managing IT Innovation: Spotting the Next Big Thing

Few areas of business have produced as many surprises as has IT. If we look back over the past 40 years or so, we see an accelerating pattern of advance, driven by Moore's Law, in which technologies rise, propagate, and are then eclipsed by new and better technologies.
May 1, 2003 | Authored By: Robert Austin

What Does it Mean to Be a 'Chief Information Officer?'

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
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