Find analysis of data from Cutter's ongoing industry research efforts, brief treatments of topics that don't require the in-depth research of an Executive Report, updates on previously-covered topics, and more, in 2-4 page Executive Updates.
Offshore Outsourcing -- Trends and Fallout: Part I
Getting Past the Pain in Project Portfolio Management
Utilizing Shared Services as an Alignment Tool
Radical Management and Strategy: Part V -- Do We Care About What We Know?
RDF versus XML: Which Way Should You Go?
Service-Oriented Architecture: Part II -- Strategies and Implementation
Technology-Driven Transportation
Software Teams -- Your Most Important Asset: Part II: What Motivates Them?
Paths and Practices for Agile Coaches
Any advice concerning agile coaching must begin with the caveat that no one individual owns this space. What is possible, and what I will try to do in this Executive Update, is to present a few guidelines that may help new or working coaches.
Corporate Adoption of Enterprise Information Portals: Part VI -- Major Issues Confronting EIP Initiatives
Software Teams -- Your Most Important Asset: Part I: The "Make or Break" of a Project
Commitment Management and CMMI
Finding the True Value of Outsourcing
The financial benefits of outsourcing are well documented, but what about the value delivered? Is there an effective way to measure the true value that is being delivered to the end user?
Radical Management and Strategy: Part IV -- Do We Walk the Talk on Project Management?
Organizing IT: What's the "Right" Structure?
The US Federal Enterprise Architecture and Its Framework
Service-Oriented Architecture: Part I -- Awareness and Plans
Bridging the BI Disconnect Between Corporate IT and Business
Practical Enterprise Architecture: The Civil Engineering of IT
A practical enterprise architecture, or PEA, works from the inside out (i.e., starting with the common IT resources to support the applications systems) rather than from the outside in (i.e., designing the applications systems toward the common IT resources).