| 23
May 2003 |
IT
Doesn't Matter.
Is "IT Strategy" passé?
Feedback from the previous newsletter.
The new economy, open source
Genetic
Programming (again)
Book Review - Feature Driven Development
Word Technical Tip |
| 30th
June 2002 |
Why
Software is So Bad. Will we soon innovate, litigate, and
regulate reliability?
Why
are companies supporting Open-Source Software? The key: think
'free speech', not 'free beer'.
The
New Economy Was a Myth, Right? In spite of the hype and
exaggeration, don't dismiss "The new economy". There have
indeed been profound changes.
Business
Strategy. A couple of new papers from McKinsey and Harvard
Business Review.
RFID's
A technology to watch
Interface
Design
|
| 30th
May 2002 |
Genetic
Programming. Using the tricks of DNA to solve a common
problem.
SWEBOK.
A project to codify the Body of Knowledge for Software Engineering may do
for our profession what the PMBOK has done for Project Management.
Inspections,
Structured Walkthroughs, and Pair Programming. The
evidence is strong that reviewing of one form or another is the most
cost-effective way of improving productivity and quality. Does it
matter which form you use?
Book
review: High Stakes, no Prisoners
Absolute
Powerpoint
Visual
Basic Programming Information
Buzz-word
Upgrade. "The e-Business Ecosystem".
|
| 14th
March 2002 |
Should
IT Projects be run like Construction Projects?
Web
Services
Purebuild
- New Software for Building Companies
IT
and Productivity |
| 6th
Feb 2002 |
NanoTechnology
Copyright, Robot Dogs, and loving a machine.
XML: The "De Facto" Standard for B2B Integration
IT
Predictions
Survey: The Real Time Economy |
| 31
Dec 2001 |
Book
Review - The Pragmatic Programmer
Book Review - The Age of Spiritual Machines
Nanotechnology
Hybrid Class Diagrams. |
| 19th
Oct 2001 |
Your
next IT strategy
The Hidden Cost of Microsoft XP
Disruptive Innovation
Software for Managing Rapid (Iterative) Development
Patent Searching
SEARCC |
| 24th
Sept, 2001 |
The
Superefficient Company|
High Availability - Processes
are more important than redundance
Outsourcing - You'd
think we'd know how to do it by now!
Taming the Web |
| 15th
August 2001 |
Reshaping industries with Internet Supply Chains.
A series of case studies from
Stanford University around the theme "How the internet is changing
business".
Also from Stanford:-
Mainframes have Staying Power
|
| 8th
August 2001 |
Critical Chain Project Management
Evolution or Revolution
The Semantic Web
Leading Through Rough
Times: An Interview with Novell's Eric Schmidt |
| 1st
June 2001 |
Outsourcing
- the reluctant bridegroom
ASP will be dead in a year
Naming Database Objects |
| 24th
May 2001 |
1. Reminder about Strategic Use of
IT Course
2. Microsoft - good and bad
Microsoft have succeeded in capturing the desktop by offering an
outstanding value proposition. They are poised to do the same for the
server market - .NET and the Application Centre Server could offer
"3*3*1/3" - three times the throughput time three times the
reliability at 1/3 of the cost. That's good. But there is
concern that Microsoft may be abusing its monopoly situation, with
Windows 2000 being more about locking us into the Microsoft way than
about delivering value to customers. That's bad. Articles
are summarised and referenced giving both points of view.
|
| 8th April 2001 |
XML, .NET, and thoughts on the future
of the Internet.
Book Reviews:
What, not How, by C.J.Date
B2B Application Integration, by David S Linthicum
Extreme Programming, by Ken Beck. |
| 19th March 2001 |
The
Internet Hype is fading, but the Internet remains a key part of business strategy. A few
articles from the most recent two HBR's that reinforce this theme. From February and
March
 | Managing in the Whitespace (Feb) |
| Price Smarter on the Net. (using Internet to
optimise pricing - targeting customers etc)
(Feb) |
| Strategy and the Internet (March) |
An article from the Financial Times even more directly makes the point - the
disintermediation threat has not occurred (well, not in the way that many thought it
would). See "Death of the net threat".
Finally, something for the techies - Cleaning up and tweaking Windows 98. |
