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“The worst may be behind us.” So said US President Obama in August, ever the optimist. He was not alone, however. Joining him was a rather large chorus of investors who over the past few months cheered some of the economic data, driving the stock market up. Si...

Agile development is being merged with Business Intelligence to create smaller-scale, rapid-results with analytics applied to corporate data.

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I live in the state of New Hampshire. It’s a major pumpkin-growing region of the country, and October is harvest season. Truckloads of pumpkins head south and west, and local farm stands are bursting with the orange globes. But what do you do with all the misshaped or leftover pumpkins? ...

Agile methods are geared to managing uncertainty – uncertainty related to “ends” (customer objectives and features), and uncertainty related to “means” (technology and people). One way ...

What makes agile development and project management successful? While there are many factors in agile’s success, four key ones are: a bias for action, a focus on customer value, the appeal to doers, and being principles based. ...

Much of the discussion about agile has in the past been about creating “working software,” team dynamics, technical practices, and even the project management required to get effective and acceptable code delivered and/or deployed. Wh...

As the old joke goes, alpha tests and beta tests are named that way because “alpha” is a Greek word that means “doesn’t work,” and “beta” is another Greek word that means “still doesn’t work.” But seriously, we know that the classical software product lifecycle includes tests performed by the de...

With all that has transpired in the last year, what do you think is in store for the role of the CIO in 2010 and beyond? The January 2010 Cutter IT Journal — with Guest Editor Vince Kellen — invites thoughtful analysis and debate on how the great recession will reshape the role of the [...]

Much of the discussion about agile has in the past been about creating “working software,” team dynamics, technical practices, and even the project management required to get effective and acceptable code delivered and/or deployed. Wh...

Here are the live tweets from www.twitter.com/cuttertweets during Ken's webinar on October 20th, during which he was joined by Cutter Senior Consultant Mitchell Ummel and EA Practice Director Mike Rosen...