From cgenerali at cutter.com Wed Sep 7 11:42:10 2005 From: cgenerali at cutter.com (Cutter IT Journal) Date: Wed Sep 7 11:42:42 2005 Subject: [Authors] Call for Papers: Agile Data Techniques Message-ID: <416-22005937154210278@zoej> CALL FOR PAPERS Cutter IT Journal Scott W. Ambler, Guest Editor Abstract Submission Date: 19 September 2005 Articles Due: 28 October 2005 http://www.cutter.com/itjournal/callforpapers04.html AGILE DATA TECHNIQUES As firms are adopting agile development methodologies such as Extreme Programming (XP), Dynamic System Development Method (DSDM), and Scrum, they are discovering that they must also apply these agile techniques to their data-oriented development activities. Gone are the days of creating comprehensive data models early in the lifecycle of an IT project. Using an agile approach -- one that is iterative, incremental, and highly collaborative -- the data schema can evolve in step with the changing requirements and object schema. Taking a more evolutionary approach to data-oriented development practices also ensures a more productive and successful project and encourages collaboration and common goal sharing among all team members. The December 2005 Cutter IT Journal issue invites useful debate and analyses on the use and impact of agile techniques for data-oriented activities within IT. We are interested in a range of perspectives on such approaches, and we encourage those from around the globe to tell us their stories. TOPICS OF INTEREST MAY INCLUDE (but are certainly not limited to) the following: * Database development. What techniques are you using to develop your database within agile software development projects? What is and isn’t working? * Skills. What skills do developers, data professionals, and managers need to be effective with agile data techniques? * Agile data modeling techniques. How does data modeling change within agile development teams? How much are you doing, when, and with whom? * Database testing techniques. Databases not only contain critical corporate information, but they also provide important functionality that is often shared by a variety of applications. How are you validating this data and functionality? * Working with legacy data. How do you remain agile yet still manage to work with, and evolve, legacy data assets within your organization? What challenges are you facing, and how are you overcoming them? * The cultural impact to data departments. Agile approaches to development go against the serial, prescriptive mindsets that are systemic within many data departments. What are you doing to overcome the cultural mismatch often found between development teams and data groups? * Tools. What tools are you using to support agile data development? What tools do you wish you had? * Configuration management of data assets. What approaches are you taking to ensure proper configuration management? * Data warehousing. Traditional data warehousing projects seem to exhibit a high rate of failure, indicating a need to try a new approach. How are you applying agile concepts within data warehousing efforts, and what best practices are emerging? * Case studies. We’re particularly interested in case studies describing the adoption of agile data techniques. This Call for Papers can also be viewed online at: http://www.cutter.com/itjournal/callforpapers04.html TO SUBMIT AN ARTICLE IDEA Please respond to Scott Ambler (sambler@cutter.com) by 19 September 2005 and include an extended abstract and an article outline. ARTICLE DEADLINE Articles are due on 28 October 2005. EDITORIAL GUIDELINES Most Cutter IT Journal articles are approximately 2,500-3,500 words long, plus whatever graphics are appropriate. If you have any other questions, please do not hesitate to contact CITJ’s managing editor Karen Pasley (kpasley@cutter.com) or the Guest Editor, Scott Ambler (sambler@cutter.com). Editorial guidelines are available at http://www.cutter.com/itjournal/edguide.html . AUDIENCE Typical readers of Cutter IT Journal range from CIOs and vice presidents of software organizations to IT managers, directors, project leaders, and very senior technical staff. Most work in fairly large organizations: Fortune 500 IT shops, large computer vendors (IBM, HP, etc.), and government agencies. 48% of our readership is outside of the US (15% from Canada, 14% Europe, 5% Australia/NZ, 14% elsewhere). Please avoid introductory-level, tutorial coverage of a topic. Assume you're writing for someone who has been in the industry for 10 to 20 years, is very busy, and very impatient. Assume he or she will be asking, "What's the point? What do I do with this information?" Apply the "So what?" test to everything you write. PROMOTIONAL OPPORTUNITIES We are pleased to offer Journal authors a year's complimentary subscription and 10 copies of the issue in which they are published. In addition, we occasionally pull excerpts, along with the author's bio, to include in our weekly Cutter Edge e-mail bulletin, which reaches another 8,000 readers. We'd also be pleased to quote you, or passages from your article, in Cutter press releases. If you plan to be speaking at industry conferences, we can arrange to make copies of your article or the entire issue available for attendees of those speaking engagements -- furthering your own promotional efforts. ABOUT CUTTER IT JOURNAL No other journal brings together so many cutting-edge thinkers, and lets them speak so bluntly and frankly. We strive to maintain the Journal's reputation as the "Harvard Business Review of IT." 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