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Welcome Aboard, Professor Succi!

Israel Gat | Dec 20, 2012 No Responses

Dec 202012

How appropriate it is that on the eve of Christmas and New Year we add a consultant of the caliber of Professor Giancarlo Succi to Cutter’s Agile practice! Over the past couple of years the Agile practice has expanded its core expertise in software methods to include just about any aspect of software engineering that Cutter clients have interest in. We added consultants with deep expertise in Lean/Kanban, system engineering, complexity theory, devops and technical debt. We carry out technical due diligence and code audit engagements. And, in accord with Marc Andreessen’s quip “Software is eating the world,” various engagements evolve over time to address strategic aspects of product development. The recently published research report Introducing …

Welcome, Giancarlo!

Anne Mullaney | Nov 29, 2012 1 Response

Nov 292012

I hope you’ll join me in welcoming Giancarlo Succi to our team! We’re excited to have him. In addition to his new role as Senior Consultant with Cutter, he remains a tenured Professor at the Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, where he directs the Center for Applied Software Engineering. He has consulted with private and public organizations worldwide (he’s based in Italy) in the areas of Agile methods, software quality/measurements, software system architecting, design, development, IT strategy, and training for software personnel. Dr. Succi’s research interests swirl around Agile, experimental software engineering, open source development, software product lines and software reuse, and software development over the Internet. He is a prolific writer, having authored or coauthored …

Jim Plamondon, Cutter, and the API Economy

Jim Plamondon | Oct 4, 2012 No Responses

Oct 042012

Jim Plamondon, Cutter, and the API Economy

I’ve recently joined the Cutter Consortium as a Senior Consultant, focusing on the API Economy. This begs three questions: Why the API Economy? Why me? Why Cutter? Why the API Economy? The API Economy is, in brief, the exchange of information resources facilitated by: Exposing your entity’s core information resources to an ecosystem of developers through an Internet-based Application Programming Interface (API), and Combining other entities’ APIs to build new information resources. You may never have heard of the API Economy, but you will. It is the economic force that is driving cloud computing and mobile apps. The success of cloud and mobile computing is accelerating the API Economy towards a tipping point, in a …

Get up close & personal with our Agile team

Kim Leonard | Dec 21, 2011 No Responses

Dec 212011

Immerse yourself in Agile on day three of Cutter Consortium’s Summit: Executive Education+, 2-4 April 2012. You’ll find out how Agile, the software method that was conceived as a way to cope with change, is changing, how these changes can benefit your organization — and what you need to do to make that happen. Agile practice director Israel Gat has assembled an impressive team of Cutter consultants to present, including: Patrick Debois: What Leaders Need to Know About Devops Jim Sutton: Reclaiming Business Glory through the Lean Worldview Hubert Smits: Want to be Radical? Here’s How and Israel himself: Agile 2.0: Change is Changing! Limited-time Registration Savings Like 2011, our best offers for Summit 2012 …

BI as Usual Is Insufficient

Ken Collier | Sep 22, 2011 No Responses

Sep 222011

This month, Cutter unveiled its redefined BI practice, Data Integration, BI & Collaboration. I know it’s a mouthful, so let’s just call it “DBC” for short. As the new Practice Director, my aim is to shape this practice to best address your needs, but more importantly to continuously adapt as your needs change. I also suspect you are looking for Cutter to assist you in staying aware of emerging ideas and trends that might benefit your organization. Please consider this post an open invitation to join an ongoing dialogue that will help me shape this practice appropriately. I hope you’ll share your questions, ideas, and feedback to make this venture a success. The practice name …

Honored to be a “must-read IT blog”!

Kim Leonard | Sep 8, 2011 1 Response

Sep 082011

We’re delighted to find The Cutter Blog on BizTech Magazine’s list of Must-Read IT Blogs. We’re in good, eclectic company on this list — you’ll find some sites you’d expect (large analyst firms, technology behemoths, famous smart people) — as well as some from smaller firms and up-and-coming voices. All are worth a visit, perhaps some will be must-reads for you, too. If you’re new to Cutter, here’s why The Cutter Blog is worth a look. It’s a group blog, comprising the voices of many of our 150+ business-technology experts — folks who have done, and are doing, groundbreaking work, solving problems in organizations around the globe. You’ll find posts on topics as diverse as …

“The Times They Are a-Changin’”

Anne Mullaney | Aug 12, 2011 No Responses

Aug 122011

Bob Dylan’s words certainly are an understatement in the IT world. The speed at which technologies and concepts move from novel to mainstream is staggering. But of course, that’s part of what makes the business technology field so intriguing: it’s never the same. How do you keep up? Well, for one thing, you need to be agile. That’s our mantra at Cutter. Yes, Agile is one of our thriving practice areas. But it’s also a way of life for us. Since 1986 we’ve been adapting to market changes, reorganizing content, adding new products, altering formats, etc. Here’s an example: when I first came to Cutter, our Object-Oriented Strategies newsletter (16 pages in print) was one …

Daily Cutter Retrospectives at Agile2011

Anne Mullaney | Aug 3, 2011 No Responses

Aug 032011

Practice what you preach. Talk the talk and walk the walk. That’s what Cutter’s going to do at the end of each afternoon at Agile2011. Join Israel Gat and Cutter Senior Consultants including Ken Collier, Brent Barton, Patrick Debois, Johanna Rothman, Christopher Avery, Ward Cunningham, Gil Broza, and others for the Daily Cutter Retrospective. This team, along with anyone (that means you!) who’d like to join them, will spend a few minutes reviewing and sharing what everyone learned that day, and what impact it might have on the rest of the conference and their post-conference actions. Follow us at @cuttertweets for the exact location of this retrospective/meetup. Or Like us on Facebook and we’ll send …

Collier’s Book Named Top Summer Read by CIO-Insight

Kim Leonard | Jun 10, 2011 No Responses

Jun 102011

Congratulations to Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Ken Collier! His latest book, Agile Analytics: A Value-Driven Approach to Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing, was named one of the “11 Books to Recharge Your Leadership Skills” by CIO-Insight. A leading expert with Cutter’s Business Intelligence and Agile Product & Project Management practices, Ken is the developer of the Agile Business Intelligence (Agile BI) methodology, which combines agile methods with data warehousing, business intelligence, and advanced analytics. He has successfully adapted agile techniques to DW/BI to create the Agile Analytics style. He continues to refine these ideas as a technical lead and project manager on several agile DW/BI project teams. As CIO-Insight points out, Ken’s latest book is …

3G: Google Gmail Glitch

Claude Baudoin | Mar 1, 2011 No Responses

Mar 012011

I was just asked to comment problem at Google that caused an estimated 35,000 people to lose (for a few days at least) the entire contents of their Gmail accounts. Here are my thoughts on this.

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Welcome Aboard, Professor Succi!

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Jim Plamondon, Cutter, and the API Economy

Get up close & personal with our Agile team

Honored to be a “must-read IT blog”!

“The Times They Are a-Changin’”

Daily Cutter Retrospectives at Agile2011

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