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  • New Metrics for Turbulent Times – Excerpts

  • April 23, 2009 Cutter IT Journal’s issue on “New Metrics for Turbulent Times” is out! Here’s an excerpt from my Guest Editor introduction. This issue contains some great articles by Cutter authors Vince Kellen, Michael Rosen, Evan Campbell, Sara Cullen, and William Walton on Ethics, IT Architecture, Agile Methods, Outsourcing, and Portfolio Management. Interested in […]

  • Now Shipping! The Cutter/QSM Benchmark Almanac

  • December 20, 2007 Great news! The Cutter Consortium is now shipping the Cutter/QSM Benchmark Almanac: Application Development Series, 2007-2008 Edition, the result of an unprecedented joint collaboration featuring industry research by QSM on software development (derived on projects mined from the QSM worldwide database), and expert opinions by Cutter authors like Tom DeMarco, Tim Lister, […]

  • Nov 15th Cutter Webinar – Invitation Only

  • November 14, 2007 I’m excited… I just finished a walkthrough with Anne Mullaney, Group Publisher of Cutter Consortium, on a special webinar that we’re running Thu Nov 15th at 11:30 am – 12:30 pm entitled, “Compared to What? A Look at Application Development Metrics”. It’s normally “invitation only” to the Cutter Consortium community. Good news! […]

  • Cutter Latin America – IT in Mexico is Alive and Well…

  • September 28, 2007 Whew! I just returned from a 2 city tour in Monterrey Mexico and Mexico City. It was a fantastic week teaching negotiation techniques for IT, to a diverse and energetic group of managers, executives, and CIOs in Mexico, provided by the Cutter Consortium Latin America. The event was part of a “Strategic […]

  • Agile Company #5 Is Revealed

  • September 18, 2007 The secret is out. After our productivity analysis of Agile methods at BMC Software, executives at the firm were so excited about the results that a press release was issued last week about the findings: Agile Excels at BMC, Programming Technique Provides Customers Higher Quality Products in Record Time SLIM Analysis Shows […]

  • Cutter Summit 2007 – Tom DeMarco’s Wrap-up

  • May 4, 2007 Well, a moment many of us have been waiting for has arrived. Tom’s wrap-up of the conference is a time when we get to go on a guided tour of “connecting the dots” as seen through Tom’s lens. Seeing Tom prepare his index cards at the front of the stage blows me […]

  • Cutter Summit 2007

  • May 3, 2007 Cutter Summit 2007 – Lynne Ellyn; Is Innovation Relevant to IT? Lynne is VP and CIO at DTE Energy. She and I have enjoyed much of this conference sitting together in the back row, and she now takes the stage. Her IT operation is nearly 850 employees and is responsible for [get […]

  • Cutter Summit 2007 – Stowe Boyd on Web 2.0

  • April 30, 2007 Stowe Boyd is taking the stage on Web 2.0. He describes it as a very important revolution in the space of social apps that is itself transformative. He says that taking up blogging towers over everything else he has ever done in his career. It trumps his getting a degree in computer […]

  • A Conference NOT to miss…

  • April 6, 2007 …is the annual Cutter Summit, which will be held on April 29-May 2 in Cambridge MA. I *never* miss it; Along with the POPTech Conference in Camden Maine, it goes on my calendar and everything else simply revolves around it. The topic this year is – Innovation, a subject that matters more […]

  • Speaking to Ireland’s Software Industry

  • March 12, 2007 Tomorrow I head to Galway, Ireland, where I’m giving a speech entitled “Is the World (Really) Flat; Measurement Insights from Around the World,” at a software conference sponsored by Enterprise Ireland and Intec Billing. The conference sponsor asked me to give a talk that addresses – interestingly enough – the pressures that […]