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Articles from
August 2008
» Requirements gathering resources, practices lacking at Fortune 500 companies
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| Requirements gathering resources and best practices were found lacking at Fortune 500 companies, a recent study from Voke Inc. found. But if business analysts are equipped with the right tools and enough resources, businesses stand to benefit greatly. |
» Top 10 Technology Careers
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| As technology stocks waned in the last few months of the 20th century, some analysts worried that technology degrees wouldn't be as valuable as they had been during the "dot-com bubble." They couldn't have been more wrong.
It's not just industry heavyweights like Google and Apple who are acquiring new real estate to house all their new hires. E... |
» Security is Everyone’s Responsibility
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| If you have been following my column over the past few months you should have a pretty good idea of where and when security comes into play for a typical organization.
Something that needs to be said however, is, that not all organizations have a dedicated roll responsible for security. Even if there is a dedicated roll, that person can’t be in... |
» FEATURED: Standing Up for 15 Minutes: Why?
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| The ultimate management sin is to waste people’s time, Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister told us in their famous book Peopleware [1]. This includes having pointless meetings that prevent people from actually doing anything useful. Nevertheless, some meetings are considered a necessary evil and therefore the so-called “agile movement” in software devel... |
» FEATURED: Software Sizing During Requirements Analysis
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| Software production has become one of the key activities of the industrialized world. Software applications are now the driving force of business, government operations, military equipment, and most of the services that we take for granted: electric power, water supplies, telephones, and transportation.
Most major companies and government agenc... |
» Offshore outsourcing projects: Seven things every project manager should know
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| Project managers handling offshore outsourced software projects face extra challenges. PM expert Bas de Baar explains how managers can work with and learn from their foreign partners and employees. Here are seven things you really have to know before you get started. |
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