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Is It Architecture?: Part I
Quick Turnaround: Rediscovering Innovation and the Power of Teams
Is it possible to learn from experts in other disciplines? Indeed, can we improve our own practices by watching other professionals ply their trade?
Racing and medicine are not normally reckoned to have a lot in common. Formula One racing offers many thrills to viewers and fans, but apparently it can also offer instructive lessons in process improvement.
The Allure and Danger of the Crystal Ball: The Alternative to Making Predictions
It is so easy, and tempting, to try to envision precisely how 2013 will unfold. Levels of business uncertainty abound, and yet for some reason, we invest significant chunks of our time trying to forecast what's going to transpire in the world around us and determine its lasting effects on our actions and lives.
Why "Agile vs. CMMI" Is Still Valid
CMMI is the de facto standard for process improvement in the software development domain. This standard encourages a systematic approach to process improvement. On the other hand, agile software development fosters high customer collaboration, rapid feedback, and empowerment of the individual developer. Both approaches have already been proven to be compatible and synergistic. Nevertheless, there is still great debate about CMMI's ability to "be agile" and agile methods' capacity to adapt to CMMI requirements without losing agility.
EA New Year's Resolutions, Eighth Edition
Analytic Visions
Visualization has always played an important role in BI and analytics, aiding in our ability to process complex numerical information and improving our understanding. Graphics are an important part of BI dashboards, with graphs, plots, and speed dials providing instant and automatic access to analytics results.
Enterprise Patterns: The Key to Delivering Enterprise Transformation?
[From the Editor: This week's Cutter IT Advisor is from Cutter Senior Consultant Roger Evernden's introduction to the December 2012 issue of Cutter IT Journal, "Enterprise Patterns" (Vol. 25, No. 12).
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Take Something Old and Make It New
The Discipline of Technical Debt
As technical debt tools like Sonar and SQALE become more and more pervasive, the measurement and interpretation of technical debt are becoming fairly standard operating procedures in many of the development "shops" I work with. On a regular basis in my Cutter engagements, I use dashboards like those shown in Figure 1 and Figure 2.
Business-IT Architecture "Misalignment"
The Need for a Collaboration Innovation Roadmap
Superstorm Sandy, Operational Risk, and Lame Excuses
The after effects of subtropical storm Sandy, which slammed into northern New Jersey late in October, are still being strongly felt. According to the latest count, some 30,000 businesses and homes in New Jersey and an additional 305,000 homes and 256,000 businesses in New York were destroyed or damaged by the storm.
Two Different Agile Organizations
Understand Your Mobile Strategy
The Rising Role of Tablets in Organizations
There has been a lot of discussion about the need for organizations to adopt tablet devices (e.g., iPad, Android-based, PlayBook) to enable their employees to communicate via email, participate in mobile conferencing, and to access, view, and interact with corporate data via reports, dashboards, and other functionality while on the
Mobile Device Management Trends 2013
What CFOs (and other VPs) Want -- A Lesson for CIOs?
Some time ago, the Wall Street Journal ran an article with the title "What the CFOs Want." It reflected the views of a significant number of CFOs from large and small companies, including CFOs from companies such as PepsiCo, Comcast, Ford, DuPon