This CBR issue is motivated by the following trend: the ability to access and analyze data as it's created in real (or near real) time. This issue's articles work particularly well together. Federico and Elisabetta help draw our attention to the higher-level question of value creation; a question every organization must tackle. After all, real-time data analytics is difficult and expensive and organizations need to know that they will earn a return on their investment. Zubin then grounds us with some excellent advice and insight around implementing and managing real-time data analytics. Regardless of where you are along the real-time data analytics path, I trust both the survey data and articles in this issue will serve you well.
March 2012
February 2012
Beauty and the Beast
Small is beautiful in software. But that beauty conflicts with "the beast" -- the many rules, regulations, processes, stage gates, committees, compliance imperatives, and audits that inevitably accompany large-scale software projects. Big Agile can reconcile the systemic conflict between the two, preserving the beauty while taming the beast.
In this issue:- Big Agile
- What Does It Mean to Be "Big"? The Agile Scaling Model
- Laying the Foundation for Big Agile Transformation
- To Be or Not to Be: That's the Leadership Question for Going "Big Agile"
- Big Anything Depends on the People: An Exploration of the Human Factor in Scaling Agile Methods
- Big Agile Isn't "One Big Agile"
February 2012
January 2012
2012: The Dawn of a New Era
With the rise of social media, the ubiquity of consumer technology, and the emergence of Big Data tools and cloud computing, 2012 will go down in history as the transition to a new way of computing for organizations.
January 2012
"We have the opportunity here not only to 'take the pulse' of the IT industry on various topics -- adoption levels, HR activities, IT management strategies, and more -- but also to compare this year's snapshot with the past six years, giving us insight into the ever-changing landscape of business technology."
-- Joseph Feller, Editor