Monthly Archives: October 2008

An Agile View of Software Engineering

 Jens Coldewey | Oct 21, 2008  7 Responses
Oct 212008
 
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Last week, we celebrated the 40th anniversary of software engineering. Between 7 and 11 October 1968, the NATO Science Committee hosted 62 leading academics and professionals of the young computer industry in Garmisch, a beautiful place in Bavaria, Germany, at the foot of the north face of the highest German mountain. During this conference, the term “software engineering” became popular and started its journey through our domain. Not too long ago, I understood agile development as an oppositional concept to software engineering. I had identified software engineering with the heavy document-driven processes widely in use in the 1980s and 1990s. This is a popular conception; especially one the proponents of traditional methodologies like to support. …

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 Agile Project Management

Using Lean Portfolio Management to Scale Agile Methods

 Christine Generali | Oct 19, 2008  No Responses
Oct 192008
 
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The January Cutter IT Journal invites useful, innovative, and thoughtful debate on how agile methods can be scaled through the use of Lean portfolio management. We invite anyone who is interested to send us an abstract for consideration. Cutter IT Journal Call for Papers Sanjiv Augustine, Guest Editor Abstract Submission Date: 31 October 2008 Articles Due: 12 December 2008 Guidelines for Contributors

 Agile Project Management, General

Cutter Research Community

 Anne Mullaney | Oct 13, 2008  No Responses
Oct 132008
 
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The original research Cutter conducts helps us deliver a detailed picture of IT best practices worldwide. The data we gather make it possible to forecast the business and technology strategies, tactics, and trends that will have an impact on organizations in the near- and long-term. We make the extra effort to ensure that survey results reflect reality. When Cutter Senior Consultants analyze the data, they normalize it, toss the outliers, and eliminate responses from any sales/marketing/product management folks at vendor companies. And we always include the number of respondents when we publish analyses based on data collected through these surveying efforts. We follow this methodology so you can be confident in the validity of our …

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Don’t Downsize. Rightplace Instead.

 Vince Kellen | Oct 8, 2008  2 Responses
Oct 082008
 
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I had just gotten off the phone with a Merrill Lynch advisor who I know well. She surmised that maybe there is even more capitulation ahead. Maybe we will soon see the Dow at 8,000? Jokingly, I said I would start buying at 6,000. The fear, however, is real and the effect of a big downturn in consumer spending will be significant, not just here in the U.S., but globally. In today’s economy which is driven by consumption, that means tough times for many firms are ahead. From a business strategy standpoint, I see unique opportunities for well-placed firms. I would bet that 95% of all business are now engaging in identical and synchronous maneuvers: …

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