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"The more efficient you are, the harder it is to change." In this Executive Update, Tom DeMarco's adage will be our guidepost as we examine issues concerning IT and
October 31, 2001 | Authored By: Robert Charette
"If you want higher quality, build less stuff." That, in essence, is what Cutter Business Technology Council Fellow Tom DeMarco once said about a daring strategy for quality improvement: reduce quantity.
August 1, 2005 | Authored By: Michael Mah
Effective risk management begins with a culture in which reality isn’t overwhelmed by hubris. No project manager can be a good risk manager in a political environment in which executives are so gung ho that it blinds them from the reality. Effective risk management requires that executives and project managers make hard tradeoff decisions as the speculative hypotheses we call plans are smashed against the reality of the rough-and-tumble business world.
July 16, 2020 | Authored By: Jim Highsmith