By bfwebster on Mar 4, 2009 in Articles, Baseline, Development, IT Project Management, Main, Maintenance | 0 Comments
My newest Baseline column is up, and in it, I talk about technology lifecycles that can cause you grief:
Each technology is on its own product lifecycle, which may or may not match with your organization’s business and development lifecycles. In particular, there are certain cycle mismatch patterns that commonly occur in organizations looking to adopt [...]
By bfwebster on Jan 29, 2009 in Intellectual property, Lawsuits, Main, Patents | 0 Comments
The US Federal Court of Appeals ruling upholding the lower court decision for In re Bilski has now been appealed to the US Supreme Court:
Not since 1981 has the Supreme Court undertaken to spell out the kinds of inventions that are eligible for patent rights — the exclusive rights to produce or use an invented device [...]
By bfwebster on Jan 20, 2009 in Articles, Baseline, IT Project Management, Main, Management | 0 Comments
[Cross-posted from brucefwebster.com]
I’m currently writing a series of columns for Baseline on how to deal with frozen or reduced IT budgets due to the current economic troubles. Here are the first two columns:
Performing IT Project Triage
Pulling the Plug on IT Project
Next up: how to deal with personnel issues. ..bruce..
By bfwebster on Dec 19, 2008 in Intellectual property, Lawsuits, Main, Patents | 3 Comments
The In re Bilski (545 F.3d 943 [Fed. Cir. 2008]; here’s a PDF of the decision) court decision placed significant new limits on so-called “process” or “business method” patents, which possible implications for many software patents.
Well, I just received an e-mail from Joel Miller of the ABA Intellectual Property Law Committee (of which I’m a [...]
By bfwebster on Nov 20, 2008 in Articles, Baseline, IT Project Management, Main, Software engineering, Surviving Complexity | 0 Comments
My latest Baseline column is up, and it talks about why you should read these five books now, if you haven’t already…and if you have read them, you should probably re-read them. ..bruce..