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.

Project Management Husbandry Redux: Part 1

Robert Charette
  Project Management Husbandry Redux series: Part I Part II

Technology Procurement and Vendor Management Practices: Part I

Eric Buel
  Technology Procurement and Vendor Management Practices series: Part I Part II Part III

Corporate IT Spending Outlook for 2004 -- Part I

George Westerman
  Corporate IT Spending Outlook for 2004 series: Part I

Make Room for Blogs

Stowe Boyd

Major Issues Confronting Corporate Data Warehousing and BI Efforts

Curt Hall

Despite an increased emphasis on data warehousing and business intelligence (BI) to enhance competitiveness, organizations experience one or several myriad issues and concerns when implementing and maintaining analytic applications.


An Inside-the-Project View of Metrics

Magnus Hglund
  An Inside-the-Project View of Metrics Part I Part II

An Inside-the-Project View of Metrics: Part II

Magnus Hglund
  An Inside-the-Project View of Metrics Part IPart II

Software Testing -- Paying Now or Paying Later Part III: The Tester's Scorecard

E.M. Bennatan
  Software Testing -- Paying Now or Paying Later series: Part IPart II

Make Room (at Least in Your Mind) for Open Source

Michael Guttman, Diego Lo Giudice


A Practical Vision for Software Management

Daniel Suppin

Almost everybody believes in software measurement, and if you trust Murphy's Law, then you know why you should. Consider Westheimer's Rule: "To estimate the time it takes to do a task: estimate the time you think it should take, multiply by two, and change the unit of measure to the next highest unit. Thus, we allocate two days for a one-hour task" [1].


Software Testing -- Paying Now or Paying Later Part II: Paying (Some) Later

E.M. Bennatan
  Software Testing -- Paying Now or Paying Later series: Part IPart II

IT and Business Process Outsourcing on the Rise

Wendell Jones

According to a recent Cutter Consortium study, both IT outsourcing (ITO) and business process outsourcing (BPO) are growing segments of the outsourcing market, with BPO experiencing rapid growth.