It's time we at CBR step back from benchmarking specific topics and industries to consider the process of performance measurement and benchmarking itself. How should you use benchmarking information? What information should you gather about your company's own internal operations? In general, how should you gather and use performance data? This issue of CBR considers these questions.
November 2002
October 2002
Every manager has a good idea of what portfolio management means in an investment context. It's about stepping back and looking at the entirety of your investments to ensure that they make sense when viewed as a group. In doing this, we consider the characteristics of investments along a variety of dimensions.In this issue:October 2002
Don't Throw the Baby Out with the Bathwater In this issue:- Cutter IT Journal: October 2002 -- Whither Wireless?
- Whither Wireless?: Opening Statement
- Overcoming the Impediments to Enterprise Adoption of Wireless Data Systems
- Enterprise Wireless Data Network Options: The Next 3-5 Years
- Mobile and Wireless: The IT Impact
- Wireless Security: The Key to Success for M-Commerce
- Lighting a Fire Under Wireless Adoption
September 2002
Although the US IT workforce has grown by 1% ... since the beginning of the year, the short-term hiring outlook continues to remain bleak ... [jobless] IT professionals [with] in-demand skills ... point the finger at H-1B visa holders and offshore programming outfits, where a growing number of companies are shifting their development and maintenance work to reduce costs.
-- Thomas Hoffman, ComputerWorld, 23 September 2002
In this issue:- The Overseas Option: A Status Report on Software Development Outsourcing
- The Impact of the Recession on Overseas Outsourcing
- If the Project Manager Is in San Diego, Can the Application Team Be in Fort Worth?
- DSD Under the Microscope: An Up-Close Look at Distributed Software Development Organizations
- Are Companies Really Satisfied with Their Strategic Choice of DSD?
- Outsourcing and Web Services: More Than Just Cost-Saving Tools
September 2002
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, the results are satisfying and valuable.In this issue:- September 2002 Cutter IT Journal -- XP and Culture Change
- XP and Culture Change: Opening Statement
- The Unbearable Lightness of Programming: A Tale of Two Cultures
- Using XP for Safety-Critical Software
- Are You Mature Enough for XP?
- When and Where Agile Succeeds
- Extreme India
- Freeing the Slave with Two Masters
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