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    The Core Development Team's Role in an Agile Project 04 November, 2008 13:21:00

    This excerpt from the upcoming book, Becoming Agile, discusses a necessity in ensuring corporate buy-in for Agile development: creating a collaborative team that can evangelize Agile in the company and shepherd the software engineering methodology through enterprise software development projects.
    The key to a successful Agile migration is having the change driven from within. The change needs to be driven by key players throughout the company. Once this team is created they will be evangelists to the entire company.
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    The Core Development Team's Role in an Agile Project 04 November, 2008 13:21:00

    This excerpt from the upcoming book, Becoming Agile, discusses a necessity in ensuring corporate buy-in for Agile development: creating a collaborative team that can evangelize Agile in the company and shepherd the software engineering methodology through enterprise software development projects.
    The key to a successful Agile migration is having the change driven from within. The change needs to be driven by key players throughout the company. Once this team is created they will be evangelists to the entire company.
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    10 Tips to Help Employees Collaborate 03 December, 2007 13:05:58

    Collaboration has always been an essential part of the fabric of the Internet. E-mail, instant messaging, chat rooms, discussion groups and wikis are common collaborative elements that have matured over time
    Collaborative development environments will be the next "killer app" in software development. They'll make use of wikis, instant messaging, forums and online presence. But don't just barrel into it without thinking through the options
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    The People Thing 05 November, 2007 13:55:44

    Enhancing human performance now appears to be even more important to CEOs and CIOs than automating business processes. But are they executing?
    At Microsoft's CEO Summit this May, Bill Gates took a few moments to talk about time management. He noted that, somehow, his calendar seemed to be filled with commitments that - upon reflection - only seemed like a good idea at the time. In retrospect, he had been foolish to make them
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    Power to the Users 19 June, 2007 09:45:00

    As technology becomes increasingly entwined with business processes, accountability for and ownership of systems decisions must inevitably shift
    After a working lunch at a workshop, a senior IT manager at a global telecommunications company approached me with a problem. Over the course of several mergers, acquisitions and reorgs, his firm now had three work-order processing systems.
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    Aligning Business with IT 07 May, 2007 11:28:26

    For far too long business executives have viewed IT as a necessary evil
    How many times have you heard that IT needs to be aligned with business? If there was a mantra of the past decade, surely this was it. And who can argue with the concept that IT and business need to be in alignment to ensure that IT investments pay off in the form of tangible business benefits?
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    The Race to Innovation 02 April, 2007 13:14:34

    While it may seem that competition and collaboration are at odds, the most innovative IT shops find a way to blend the two productively
    Collaborate or compete? That's a core strategic question for organizations seeking margins and market share. When are they better off energetically competing against their rivals? When are they wisest to collaborate and cooperate? That strategic question is even more important for the internal IT marketplace. CIOs have to determine what will better drive desirable results: more collaboration within their IT shops or encouraging smarter competition. The "correct" answer, of course, is "both". Good luck
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    Are You in Control? 11 December, 2006 12:42:30

    Enterprise change hugging should be done with the same level of care as swimming with sharks or playing with porcupines: It's going to hurt no matter what you do
    Innovation demands discipline as much as it requires freedom
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    Digital Subversives 06 November, 2006 12:25:04

    Employees just suck, don't they? It's bad enough that they don't read the documentation, follow the rules or make even a minimal effort to get the most they can out of internal IT systems
    Are employees compromising security by bringing consumer tech into the enterprise? Perhaps, but if you use too heavy a hand to stop them, you'll be fighting a losing battle
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    Process Pantomime 09 October, 2006 14:22:26

    The central issue here has nothing to do with advice-resistant clients and everything to do with pantomime cultures of perfunctory processes
    When form substitutes for substance, you have an IT leadership problem
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    The Right Question 05 September, 2006 09:00:00

    CIOs had first better grasp where internal perceptions are rather than selling where they'd like them to be. Getting to where you want to go depends on it.
    If perception helps define reality, then asking your customers how they perceive IT innovation is a simple and inexpensive way to focus your efforts
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    Visibility for the Board 04 August, 2006 12:42:10

    Once upon a time, independent directors with sterling resumes could successfully plead ignorance if their board-approved mergers, acquisitions, hiring, firing or audits went awry
    With boards of directors under increased scrutiny by regulators and other entities, CIOs should consider creating a digital dashboard that gives them a view into the key performance indicators of the business
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    Gifts that Keep on Giving 07 July, 2006 16:55:43

    Most of the time, people have no interest in how you solve a particular IT problem. But for those aspects of a problem (or opportunity) that they might like some control or influence over, they're very interested in whatever insights and shortcuts you might have to offer
    As top investment banks have discovered, giving away software tools to key customers and suppliers can save both of you lots of time and money
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    The Hammer of Consensus 05 June, 2006 09:00:00

    The simple truth is that steering committees aren't about leadership or management; they're about accountability. Strategic direction and the ongoing pursuit of operational excellence mean nothing without accountability
    When a committee is charged with achieving unanimity, the force of its decisions is multiplied
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    The Value Inside 01 May, 2006 11:31:06

    The true test of our stewardship is not just how well software is used but whether we're getting the full value that we should. That's not just a technology leadership test; it's a business leadership challenge
    CIOs should be treating success with an application as an invitation to see what else the software can do for their business
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    CA brings SOA security to open source JBoss 09 February, 2010 10:08:00

    More commercial options for widely-used app server
    CA has announced its SiteMinder and SOA Security Manager products are now available for the open source JBoss middleware platform.
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    Indian pleads guilty in overseas stock hacking scheme 08 February, 2010 07:50:00

    The group of hackers compromised brokerage accounts, then pumped up the prices of stocks
    An Indian national pleaded guilty Friday to conspiracy and aggravated identity-theft charges related to an international fraud scheme to hack into online brokerage accounts in the U.S. and use them to manipulate stock prices, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
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    E-mail scam steals €3 million in carbon credits 05 February, 2010 06:47:00

    The phishing scheme resulted in losses of up to €3 million from companies
    A clever phishing scheme launched last week may have stolen more than €3 million (US$4.1 million) worth of carbon emission permits from companies.
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    Windows 7 Tips: Best Security Features 04 February, 2010 04:52:00

    IT can specify which applications can run on employees' desktops
    For both enterprises and consumers, one of the big draws of Windows 7 has been its tighter security features.
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    Twitter forces password reset to protect some accounts 04 February, 2010 05:48:00

    The company has discovered that log-in information has been stolen in compromised torrent file-sharing sites
    Twitter required some users to reset their passwords on Tuesday after discovering that their log-in information may have been harvested via security-compromised torrent Web sites, the company said.

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