Each month’s Cutter IT Journal guest editor tries to pit the Hatfields against the McCoys by honing in on a topic that people are passionate and opinionated about and inviting them to contribute an article that take a stand on either side of the argument. This gives Cutter IT Journal readers an amazing foundation for [...]

With all that has transpired in the last year, what do you think is in store for the role of the CIO in 2010 and beyond? The January 2010 Cutter IT Journal — with Guest Editor Vince Kellen — invites thoughtful analysis and debate on how the great recession will reshape the role of the [...]

The Cutter Benchmark Review team is putting together an issue on IT’s Role in Reverse Logistics, and that means it’s survey time. The topic was new to me, so I went to the web for some education and inspiration. And bam! I found this great piece in Modern Materials Handling. In a nutshell, I learned [...]

“I didn’t take this position for the money,” he said looking at me somewhat smugly and for a very brief moment perhaps too honestly. “I did it for the power.”
I remember the conversation well. It was about 15 years ago. As a consultant then, I was, from time to time, in the offices of business [...]

Senior Consultants Bob Benson and Tom Bugnitz are guest editors for an upcoming issue of Cutter IT Journal. Here is their Call for Papers, I hope you’ll consider submitting an article idea by September 10th.
All organizations face difficult decisions in the current economic times like downsizing and cost containment. New technologies like the “cloud” force [...]

A few days ago, a management consultant I follow on Twitter commented critically about a certain software vendor rating method, dubbed the “Magicke Quadrante” in this satire on the Web (shhh… like Voldemort’s, certain names shall not be uttered in this forum). He asked: “Were x and y coordinates so firmly etched in our brains [...]

My morning scan of the RSS feeds contained fewer blog posts from Agile 2009 attendees. This leads me to the conclusion that Tuesday night was a social one (and that the coffee stations had better be will stocked this morning!)
Cutter folks are presenting several sessions over the next couple of days. Here’s where you’ll find [...]

It’s day two of Agile 2009 in Chicago, and we’ve gotten reports from our Agile consulting team of morning runs and cycling along the lakefront as well as consumption of classic Chicago pizza at Lou Malnati’s (I’m thinking the latter makes the former necessary!)
Practice Director Jim Highsmith reports that he had 100 plus folks at [...]

The Cutter Blog is again on Noop.NL’s list of Top 200 Blogs for Developers. Though it sounds like it’d be a list of really technically-focused blogs, it’s not. The blogs cover the broad topic of managing software development. Jurgen Appelo (@jurgenappelo) puts a lot of thought and work into pulling together this impressive list every [...]

Agile Project Management, 2nd Edition, July 2009. by Jim Highsmith. Listen to a podcast interview with Israel Gat and Michael Cote later this week at http://theagileexecutive.com/. The new edition:

Focuses on fundamentals of Agile project management, plus a new emphasis on issues impacting enterprise agility.
Includes a new chapter Beyond Scope, Schedule, and Cost: Measuring Agile [...]