People like to complain about software quality, and with good reason. Who has not experienced the stages of grief (concern, fear, horror, anger, resignation) that follow a "fatal exception" notification indicating that you've lost work? Yes, software quality should be better. But software users' self-righteous complaining doesn't help the situation. In the article "Why Software Is So Bad" published in the July/August 2002 issue of Technology Review, Charles C.
April 2003
In this issue:March 2003
Project Management Revolution
Critical chain project management promises to revolutionize the project and resource management practices in every corner of the companies that do a lot of project work.
Unknown Fad?March 2003
A year ago, in the March 2002 issue of CBR , we dealt with the perennial and difficult topic of project management. The charter of CBR calls for occasionally revisiting such foundational topics to present updated information. That's what we're doing this month.February 2003
This month's CBR focuses on the issue of "visibility," which our IT systems are supposed to provide for us. Visibility may not be the first thing that comes to mind when people think about the benefits of computerization. But it is, in fact, extremely important -- and for more reasons than the costs of just-in-case inventory. Visibility into operations provides a basis for better decisionmaking and allows us to service our customers more promptly.February 2003
Bold Leap Forward
Getting the business to accept responsibility and authority for the scope of systems (the major organizational implication of Extreme Programming) is reasonable and possible, and the results are satisfying and valuable.In this issue:- Cutter IT Journal: February 2003
- XP and Culture Change: Part II: Opening Statement
- XP and Emotional Intelligence: Discovering Your Inner Merlin
- It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better: Changing to XP
- Dear Diary: The Making of an XP Team
- Transformation to a Customer-Oriented Development Process
- XP and the Cognitive Divide
- Traversing Software's "Last Mile": XP Meets Corporate Reality
- Embracing Change: A Retrospective
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