With all due respect to Clint Eastwood and his fans, the IT workforce in early 2009 is clearly a mixture of the bad, the good, and the ugly. 1
January 27, 2009 | Authored By: Phil Zwieg
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This Advisor explores 12 key leverage points for change within the New York City Waste system. Grouping the leverage points into broader buckets (low, medium, and high impact) gives us an uncomplicated categorization of solutions that tells us how much energy we should invest in supporting or opposing that solution.
June 29, 2022 | Authored By: Rachana Shah
Abstract The Adaptive Project Framework (APF) i
January 31, 2011 | Authored By: Robert Wysocki
What do we need to know to succeed?
How many times have we asked this question of ourselves and our colleagues? After almost 30 years in this business, I can confidently tell you, "It depends."
July 1, 2004 | Authored By: Steve Andriole
January 31, 2005 | Authored By: Joshua Kerievsky
A recent discussion on the NewGrange list server [1] began with the question, "Is there really anything that a project manager does that is more important than risk management?" As the discussion unfolded, there was a general consensus that a ri
July 11, 2006 | Authored By: Donna Fitzgerald
If you ask the average citizen on the street for a definition of "open source," you'll probably get a blank look.
August 30, 2000 | Authored By: Ed Yourdon
I bumped into an old friend at the Cutter Summit last month whom I hadn't seen for several years. He told me he was now a member of the nefarious three-time losers club as a CIO.
June 1, 2006 | Authored By: Kenneth Rau
THE OBJECT MANAGEMENT GROUP by Paul Harmon In t
November 30, 1999 | Authored By: Paul Harmon
Volume VIII, No. 12; December 1998
November 30, 1998 | Authored By:
With an appropriate level of collaboration, a team can be productive and efficient in delivering
February 9, 2010 | Authored By: Tushar Hazra
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
Think back for a moment to the best project experience you have ever had. It may have been in the workplace, part of some team sport you were involved with, or perhaps it was a major trip you undertook with your family.
January 15, 2013 | Authored By: Jim Brosseau
The cloud computing market has already achieved some major milestones since its inception. Yet it still remains one of the hottest markets in terms of growth, spending, and revenue generation. Indeed, it is still making its way up a steep growth curve, and as more features and functionality are added that allow businesses to embrace new business models and enable innovation, the growth shows no signs of slowing.
December 12, 2018 | Authored By: Cutter Team
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