IT security certainly is an unusual business. The types and magnitudes of the threats we face today would be almost unimaginable just a few years ago. E-mail viruses have been with us since 1999 [1], but the delivery mechanisms have become more effective and more insidious. For years, security folks were warning us about the growing problems associated with identity theft, and we had been waiting quite some time for the inevitable big Internet worm that would succeed the Morris Worm of 1988 [2]. We now deal with these situations on a daily basis.
September 2005
August 2005
Vol. 18, No. 8, August 2005
Printer Friendly PDF versionHigh Hopes In this issue:- Cutter IT Journal: Mobile and Wireless Computing, Part II: Vive La Revolution!
- Mobile and Wireless Computing, Part II: Opening Statement
- Transitioning to a Mobile Enterprise: A Three-Dimensional Framework
- Introducing Mobile Technologies in Support of Healthcare
- Preparing IT Organizations for the Mobile Revolution
- Hybrid Web Applications with ASP.NET
- Personalization in Mobile Commerce Environments: Multimedia Challenges
August 2005
Metrics and performance benchmarks might look like they're about information and data, but it's not so simple. They're really about people. "Wait," you say, "it's just business. Benchmarking is about determining the state of the business, much like getting an annual physical, with a blood test for cholesterol. Or that benchmarking is like taking a photograph of company performance and looking at the picture to evaluate what we're seeing." Yet there are people who strongly resist going to the doctor as well as those who intensely dislike having their picture taken.
In this issue:- When Benchmarking Fits and When it Doesn't
- Benchmarking State of the Art: Thinking About Metrics and IT Performance
- Measuring Up to Metrics: How I Became A Missourian
- Business Performance Management: Key Performance Indicators
- The "Anti-Productivity" Argument
- ROI: Bad Practice, Poor Results
- Best and Worst in Software: Who is Faster, Better, and Cheaper?
July 2005
In his wrap-up presentation at Cutter's Summit 2005, Cutter Fellow Tom DeMarco noted "the pervasive presence of Mr. Sarbanes and Mr. Oxley at this conference, although they weren't registered." Indeed, every session provoked questions and comments on the subject of the US Sarbanes-Oxley Act (aka SOX or Sarbox) regardless of the keynote topic.
July 2005
Collaboration Is at the Tipping Point In this issue:- Cutter IT Journal: The Elusive Quest for Collaboration and Teamwork, Part II
- The Elusive Quest for Collaboration and Teamwork, Part II: Opening Statement
- Measuring Engagement and Predicting Project Performance: The TEAM Score
- Collaboration: The Key to Enterprise Agile Adoption
- Teamspotting
- What Complexity Is Doing to Teams
- Hiring for Team Fit
- The Easier Way to Work: Collaborating in World-Class Virtual Teams