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Agile in Practice: A Composite ApproachUnhelkar, Bhuvan | Executive Reports | 01 January 2010 | Agile Project Management
This Executive Report by Bhuvan Unhelkar presents the Composite Agile Method and Strategy (CAMS) as an all-encompassing approach to the use of agile principles and practices across processes at various levels within the organization. CAMS involves such process elements as business management (e.g., Six Sigma), pro...
January 1, 2010, Cutter Consortium: Agile Product & Project Management
Enterprise Risk Management Framework: A Practical View
Doughty, Ken | Executive Reports | 01 January 2010 | Enterprise Risk Management & Governance
Enterprise risk management (ERM) facilitates management's desire to effectively manage the organization's risk and to create sustainable value to its stakeholders through capital growth and increased dividend stream. No organization operates in a risk-free environment, and ERM does not create such an en...
January 1, 2010, Cutter Consortium: Enterprise Risk Management & Governance
Negotiating from the Corner
Cohen, Moshe | Executive Reports | 01 January 2010 | Business-IT Strategies
It is very challenging to negotiate when the other party is more powerful than you are. While differences in power do exist in negotiations, power is complex, with some factors acting for you and others against you. You need to be able to understand and exploit these dynamics. Even when you don't have much power, there ...
January 1, 2010, Cutter Consortium: Enterprise Suite
EA at 23: Allowed in the Bar, But Still Being Carded
Baudoin, Claude R. | Executive Reports | 01 January 2010 | Enterprise Architecture
Enterprise architecture (EA) can be traced back to 1987 and has continually evolved ever since. In this Executive Report by Claude R. Baudoin, we look at the state of EA today, including the frameworks that have evolved in the last few years, the challenge of business-IT alignment, business process management (BPM...
January 1, 2010, Cutter Consortium: Enterprise Architecture
How Not to Run an IT Project: A Case Study
Simon, Phil | Executive Reports | 01 January 2010 | Business Intelligence
The reasons for, and statistics on, IT project failures are well known and cited. However, because so many organizations attempt to hide their dirty laundry, rarely do we see an insider's account of the precise points at which a project derailed. In this Executive Report by Phil Simon, a case study is utilized to examine ...
January 1, 2010, Cutter Consortium: Business Intelligence
Developing Viable ROI Solutions to Justify New IT Infrastructure Projects
Higgins, Dave | Executive Reports | 01 December 2009 | Business-IT Strategies
Conventional wisdom holds that it's difficult, if not impossible, to cost-justify a technology project, particularly if the project is primarily technology infrastructure. In this Executive Report by Dave Higgins, tips and techniques are presented that allow for the creation of a solid and credible business case for t...
December 1, 2009, Cutter Consortium: Enterprise Suite
How to Write a Bulletproof Project Overview Statement
Wysocki, Robert K. | Executive Reports | 01 December 2009 | Agile Project Management
In this Executive Report by Robert K. Wysocki, we examine the project overview statement (POS) -- the first document you create as part of the process for getting approval of a new proposed project. If done right, the POS can have a positive impact on executive management support, meaningful client involvement,...
December 1, 2009, Cutter Consortium: Agile Product & Project Management
SOA: Understanding the Practice 2010 -- Creating Business-Driven Services
Hazra, Tushar K. | Executive Reports | 01 November 2009 | Enterprise Architecture
Many may say that service-oriented architecture (SOA) is not the "next big thing" in 2010 and beyond. However, to arrive at the future of SOA and all its potential, the time to act is now -- build business services today. SOA can make your business agile and help you adapt to the transformational changes of busine...
November 1, 2009, Cutter Consortium: Enterprise Architecture
Implementing Organizational Change for Agile Development
Dooley, Brian J. | Executive Reports | 01 November 2009 | Agile Project Management
By now, agile methodologies have become established as a means of correcting a variety of ills within the software development environment. The next step is to move them to center stage within the enterprise. While pilot projects may have limited impact on the organization, implementation can create conflicts and...
November 1, 2009, Cutter Consortium: Enterprise Suite
Unbalanced Priorities
Blitstein, Ron; The Cutter Business Technology Council | Executive Reports | 01 November 2009 | Business Technology Trends & Impacts
Companies have pursued efficiency, economies of scale, and mass markets at the expense of products that excite consumers and promote loyalty. The upside has been declining unit-cost curves, which have allowed products to reach consumers at prices more affordable t...
November 1, 2009, Cutter Consortium: Business Technology Trends & Impacts
Enterprise 3.0: How IT's All Going to Change
Andriole, Stephen J. | Executive Reports | 01 November 2009 | Business-IT Strategies
Enterprise 3.0 is about the radical changes that will move us away from talking about business technology alignment and closer to business technology convergence -- the inevitable outcome of technology, business, and management trends. This Executive Report by Steve Andriole explores both the specific changes w...
November 1, 2009, Cutter Consortium: Enterprise Suite
The End of the Internet Static Age: Desperately Seeking Search 3.0
Ummel, Mitchell | Executive Reports | 01 October 2009 | Business Technology Trends & Impacts; Business Intelligence
Barriers to the continual refinement of today's traditional search engine model are looming as the Internet continues to grow exponentially, as the information signal-to-noise ratio continues to shrink, and as we embrace the emerging Web 3.0 era, which is characterized by semantic...
October 1, 2009, Cutter Consortium: Business Technology Trends & Impacts
Data Security Implications for New Enterprise Architectures
Cohen, Beth | Executive Reports | 01 October 2009 | Enterprise Architecture
Data integrity and confidentiality have long relied on a combination of network- and application-based security. As enterprise architecture (EA) becomes more complex, data is progressively more integrated within massive data warehouses and distributed architectures. In addition, sensitive business data is increasingly b...
October 1, 2009, Cutter Consortium: Enterprise Architecture
Making Agile "Sticky": Strategies for Long-Term Success with Agile Adoption
Elssamadisy, Amr | Executive Reports | 01 October 2009 | Agile Project Management
If you are experiencing problems with your agile adoption initiatives, you are not alone. However, with experience we've seen common attributes and behaviors emerge that you can employ to increase your chances of agile success -- as well as to avoid failure. This Executive Report by Amr Elssamadisy focuses on thes...
October 1, 2009, Cutter Consortium: Agile Product & Project Management
SOA Tipping Point
Rosen, Mike; The Cutter Business Technology Council | Executive Reports | 01 October 2009 | Business Technology Trends & Impacts
SOA has reached a tipping point in organizations' abilities to deliver business value.
http://www.cutter.com/content/trends/fulltext/reports/2009/10/index.html
October 1, 2009, Cutter Consortium: Business Technology Trends & Impacts
The Key to Managing "Fuzzy" Projects
Wysocki, Robert K. | Executive Reports | 01 September 2009 | Agile Project Management
In this Executive Report, I provide a strategy for the effective management of "fuzzy" projects. A fuzzy project is any project where the goal, the solution, or both are not clearly defined. Managing such high-risk projects is challenging. The most important things to remember are to understand the degree to w...
September 1, 2009, Cutter Consortium: Agile Product & Project Management
PII: You Don't Know Jack, But the Bad Guys Have His Personally Identifiable I...
Lister, Tim; The Cutter Business Technology Council | Executive Reports | 01 August 2009 | Business Technology Trends & Impacts
More major breaches have set the stage for regulations penalizing organizations when personal data in their files is compromised.
http://www.cutter.com/trends/fulltext/reports/2009/08/index.html
August 1, 2009, Cutter Consortium: Business Technology Trends & Impacts
Agile Service Orientation: Avoiding the "Ivory Tower"
Allen, Paul | Executive Reports | 01 August 2009 | Enterprise Architecture
A harsh economic recession calling for renewed cost reduction with an emphasis on tactical solution-delivery projects causes concern over the effectiveness of enterprise service-oriented architecture (SOA) and puts agile back in the limelight. SOA and agile methodologies are commonly seen as opposites, but opposites that...
August 1, 2009, Cutter Consortium: Enterprise Architecture
Lean and Portfolio Management: A Winning Combination in Trying Times
Love, Jim | Executive Reports | 01 August 2009 | Agile Project Management
Struggling with the age-old challenge of too much demand and not enough time and resources to do it all? We all know what the solution is: focus on those things that yield the greatest value for your organization. Fortunately, two major methodologies -- portfolio management and lean -- have emerged over the past decade th...
August 1, 2009, Cutter Consortium: Agile Product & Project Management
Code Blue for IT Innovation
Austin, Rob; Ellyn, Lynne; The Cutter Business Technology Council | Executive Reports | 01 December 2008 | Innovation; Business Technology Trends & Impacts
Today's harsh economic realities threaten to drive the creative spirit from IT organizations, throttling back the flow of capital and new ideas; the innovation agenda in IT is on life support.
http://www.cutter.com/content/trends/fulltext/rep...
July 21, 2009, Cutter Consortium: Innovation
E-Mail vs. the 21st Century
DeMarco, Tom; The Cutter Business Technology Council | Executive Reports | 01 July 2009 | Business Technology Trends & Impacts
E-mail -- the 20th century's killer app -- is running into serious resistance in the 21st. Young people in particular are communicating in niche media; thus, the entire domain of business communication is becoming more and more fragmented.
http://www.cutter.com/content/t...
July 1, 2009, Cutter Consortium: Business Technology Trends & Impacts
Living on the Web: Digital Life and Death in the Early 21st Century
Andriole, Stephen J. | Executive Reports | 01 May 2009 | Business Intelligence
Quite simply, the Web has a huge impact on our personal and professional lives. It will continue to do so, becoming the dominant platform for everything from communication to business transaction processing. Within a decade, the personal/professional merger will be complete with virtually no distinctions between what...
May 1, 2009, Cutter Consortium: Business Intelligence
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