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Linear Thinking in a Nonlinear World
In this Advisor, Ken Orr asserts that even though nonlinear thinking is not intuitive for everybody, it will help you understand how to get out of significant traps.
Is Accurate Estimation Stifling Innovation?
Agility and Architecture
The phrase "Agile architecture" evokes two concepts:
The New Security Imperative
Mobile devices and cloud computing continue to redefine basic concepts of IT and challenge the concepts taken for granted over the preceding decades. One of the issues in ferment today is that of defining access and providing secure and differential availability of computing resources to users as needed.
Drones at Work
Most news coverage of drones focuses on their use by the military -- especially US forces in the Middle East, where they are used in combat and anti-terrorist operations. Amazon also managed to get a lot of free publicity around the 2013 holiday season when company reps suggested the company might use drones to deliver packages to consumers in the future.
Big Data, Big Farming
You Are Not Conducting an Orchestra
Great conductors are known to be supremely confident: in their technique and in themselves. You can see the confidence when you watch video clips of giants like Mengelberg, Toscanini, Furtwangler, Kleiber, or Bernstein. Moreover, you sense their confidence when you listen to an audio recording of theirs: they are sure-footed with each and every note in the symphony they are conducting.
What Is the IoT?
Mobile Mayhem: Identities as the New Perimeter
Mobile devices and cloud computing continue to redefine basic concepts of IT and challenge the concepts taken for granted over the preceding decades. One of the issues in ferment today is that of defining access and providing secure and differential availability of computing resources to users as needed.
Can You Be "Too Agile"? Part II
In my last Advisor (see "Can You Be 'Too Agile'?"), we considered the question: "Is it possible to be too Agile?" The question itself is a sign of Agile's successful adoption by businesses and their development teams.
What You Can Get Out of Scrum
In a recent Agile Product & Project Management Executive Update (see "Scrum's Value Proposition"), I talked about Scrum: what you can get out of it, what you won't get from it, and what you must put into Scrum to get its va
Beyond Social Media Listening
Paleolithic Us
In a prior Advisor (see "Something Is Happening Here"), I briefly described four megatrends shaping the world we live in. The topic of this Advisor, the end of anonymity, is worth a deeper look.
Agile Transitions and Management Virtues
Selling the Value of a Horizontal Discipline in a Vertical Business World
As with most new business disciplines, discussing business architecture with executives typically requires clarifying the value proposition. With business architecture in particular, clearly articulating and communicating its value is a prerequisite to launching a substantive and sustainable deployment effort.
Engaging and Activating External Influencers
After our initial success activating internal influencers to deliver business benefit, which we discussed in the December 2013 Cutter IT Journal article "People and Data: The Keys to Getting Business Value from Social Media," we have been working to more effectively extend our model to external influencers. Whether the influencer is internal or external, the basic principles are the same. The interaction has to be genuine, valuable for the influencer, and measurable.
Can You Be "Too Agile?"
The Emergence of Domain-Specific Architectures
How IT Can Transform Healthcare
[From the Editor: This week's Cutter IT Advisor is from Cutter Senior Consultant San Murugesan's introduction to the April 2014 issue of Cutter IT Journal, "How IT Can Transform Healthcare" (Vol. 27, No. 4).
Serious Games as Tools for Innovation
[From the Editor: This week's Cutter IT Advisor is from Cutter Senior Consultant Tom Grant's introduction to the May 2014 issue of Cutter IT Journal, "Serious Games as Tools for Innovation " (Vol. 27, No. 5).