Organizational culture has been described as the shared values, principles, traditions, and ways of doing things that influence the way organizational members act. In most organizations, these shared values and practices have evolved over time and determine, to a large extent, how “things are done around here.” Definition of culture implies three things. …
Today, SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol), WSDL (Web Services Description Language), and UDDI are emerging as the Internet de facto standards for Web services. SOAP has been accepted and is being standardized by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). WSDL has been submitted to the W3C for standardization, and is emerging as the de …
Agile development is popular. All the cool kids are doing it: Google, Yahoo, Symantec, Microsoft, and the list goes on.* I know of one company that has already changed its name to Agili-something in order to ride the bandwagon. (They called me in to pitch their “agile process,” which, upon …
