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Better, faster, cheaper -- the siren song of software development. Each new era of information technology belts out a chorus or two, and the e-business era is no exception.
December 31, 2000 | Authored By: Chris Pickering
IT practitioners have been preoccupied for the last several years fixing what the media refers to as the Y2K bug, which was not a bug at all (remember what a gigabyte of DASD cost in 1972? Try $6 million!).
June 1, 1999 | Authored By: Al Smith

Michael Mah is Managing Partner of QSM Associates, Inc., a firm specializing in software measurement, project estimation, and "in-flight" control for both inhouse and outsourced/offshore development. QSM has developed and maintains one of the largest databases of more than 7,500 completed projects collected worldwide, with productivity statistics and trends on cost, schedule, and quality from more than 500 organizations and 18 countries.

With more than 20 years' experience, Mr. Mah has written extensively and consulted to the world's leading software organizations while collecting…

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act is so much more than just corporate governance for accounting and finance professionals. At most companies, financial reporting systems are heavily reliant on IT and may include highly complex hybrid and legacy systems. How can CEOs and CFOs stand behind the accuracy of financial data without solid assurances from the CIO regarding the reliability of such information systems?
February 9, 2004 | Authored By: Cutter Consortium