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Running out of Crayons?

This historical trade magazine advertisement shows, in a colorful way, how many SCM and Deployment products an organization may be coping with today.

Comments we received on this ad included:

"This picture isn't colorful enough for our shop. There aren't enough colors in a crayon box to show all the different products we have to support!" - an SCM and Deployment Analyst in a large Insurance Company
"A picture is truly worth a thousand words" - a Project Mgr. in a Financial Service Company
"This ad really drives home the point of how complex an environment can be with multiple SCM products to support!" - an SCM Mgr. in a large Insurance Company

Application Development Trends Article

This 1997 article, with ISPW references, was published in Application Development Trends.

Leading-edge firms putting a premium on I/S managers who practice optimal software buy, build and deployment decision-making

A Week in Crisis Hell

This tongue-in-cheek session, also known as the "Hats" presentation, won a GUIDE quality award in the early 1990's.

The controls and quality they fought so hard to achieve are slipping away. Despite their best efforts, things keep going terribly wrong. What starts out to be your average, typical week, some how turns in to.... A Week in Crisis Hell.