10 Things That Caught My Eye: Week of 4-4-11
Major news in the travel industry with Google-ITA going through and a pair of big announcements by Expedia, Facebook takes infrastructure open source and more: Google’s plan to buy ITA Software[...]
Tagged: Forrester
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Forrester’s Henry Harteveldt on AA/Orbitz
Today Forrester’s Henry Hartevledt, everyone’s favorite travel analyst appeared on Fox Business to talk about the dispute between American Airlines and Orbitz. It doesn’t look like Henry thinks this will[...]
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Part 2: Breaking Down Forrester’s Seven Pragmatic Steps to Improved Software Quality
Following my last post, I wanted to look at each of Forrester’s recommendations and add a little color commentary where I thought that they either don’t go far enough or[...]
Refections on Forrester’s 7 Steps to Improve SQA (Part 1 of 2)
Forrester’s Lisa Visitacion and Mike Gualtieri wrote an interesting report a few months back entitled “Seven Pragmatic Practices To Improve Software Quality” (subscription required). The crux of the report is[...]
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10 Things That Caught My Eye: Week of 10-4-10
Foursquare outages, a hotelier emerges from bankruptcy, Facebook groups, executive changes and more: Altimeter Group’s Ray Wang describes the 5 pillars of consumer tech that are influencing enterprise applications and[...]
10 Things That Caught My Eye: Week of 8-16-10
The week was pretty much dominated by the launch of Facebook Places, but a few other things happened too…including a $7B acquisition by Intel that I only partially get as[...]
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The Fallacy of Software Factories and the Importance of Talent
Last week I listened to an interesting podcast by Forrester analysts Mike Gualtieri and Jeffrey Hammond entitled Talent Matters: Why Application Development Cannot Be Industrialized. At first I thought this[...]
10 Things That Caught My Eye — Week of 4-19-10
Here’s your weekly reading list: T2Impact’s Timothy O’Neill-Dunne tries to judge who’s right in the airline merchandising row. Spoiler Alert: it ain’t the BTC. American Airlines is trying to make[...]
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How Pervasive is Outcome-based Outsourcing
In an earlier post about the hype around outcome-based outsourcing engagements, I talked about how it’s a great conversation starter, but doesn’t necessarily end up being the way that contracts[...]