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Agile promises many things, but the reality in the field is often very far from the expectations. Is it agile we need--or an agile way of thinking?
Five warning signs can warn you that your project team has turned toxic.
Facebook's big announcement was a big "so what?" and minimal innovation at its finest
IDG Enterprise CEO Mike Friedenberg ponders a bleak future where self-driving cars, smart appliances and drone technology leave humans without much to do--except get fat and push buttons.
Twit Cleaner is a popular web app that has been used by hundreds of thousands of Twitter users to clear deadwood from their accounts.
The agile software development community claims that changing the way you work doesn't make things faster. Then why do it at all? Compare agile to traditional development methodologies and you'll see that agile can, in fact, be faster.
Gibbs analyzes the results of his "How do you manage your social networks?" survey
There are no metrics for measuring the quality of your relationships. For metrics-loving geeks, that's a problem.
The next generation of employees expects your business processes to be collaborative. However, don't adopt business process management for just them, though. Move to BPM for your bottom line.
Royal Caribbean Cruises deploys and uses software to manage a fleet of 30 of the largest ships in the world. Every week, data for thousands of guests is offloaded alongside luggage and souvenirs. Find out how Royal Caribbean manages data on land and at sea now--and what its plans to do in the future.
Headquarters staffers often belittle the importance of functions located elsewhere, and they just as often have things backward.
To a lot of people, it seems as if we geeks are always battling for supremacy in the Always-Need-to-Be-Right Club.
That there is nothing unusual about either of these anecdotes is what makes them so remarkable.
Members of the board of directors are dangerously undereducated about IT, says Maryfran Johnson. We have advice on how to fix that (in ways that will resonate with the directors and not scare them off).
Premier 100 IT Leader Chris Miller also answers questions on long-term unemployment and coping with a woefully understaffed IT department.
You can't assume that if you just design a better approach, people will automatically embrace the new system.
Everything about Apple is as American as apple pie, even its decision to send manufacturing and unskilled-labor jobs to China. What matters more is that Apple products have spawned high-paying jobs for skilled workers in America, writes CIO.com's Tom Kaneshige. That's why the Apple name keeps popping up in this year's presidential election.
CIOs, with their 5-year average tenure, are on the low end of the spectrum when compared to the longevity of their colleagues in the C-suite. CIO magazine editor in chief Maryfran Johnson looks at why that is and how CIOs can last longer in the job
We geeks must transform our eagerness to please users into eagerness to help. There's a big difference.
If Hewlett-Packard plays its cards right, it could turn Oracle's court-ordered support for HP servers running Itanium chips into a better platform for Oracle software than it was when HP and Oracle were bosom buddies.
The Cloud isn’t about locality. It is about quality of service delivery, cost, and whether the services consumed satisfy our objectives. For the enterprise, you need to select the right ...
The transformation of computing through mobility, consumerisation, bring-your-own device (BYOD) and flex-work offers powerful benefits for today’s organisations ...