"I've tried to emphasize the fact that organizations are not processors that you program with a process, that they are adaptive, that creative things happen in them and that we want to support that creativity." --
At first glance, a software development house doesn’t have much in common with a financial portfolio. But both consist of instruments expected to yield value. And both contain a certain amount of risk.
A governance project at IBM Research, led by computer scientist Clay Williams, is looking at the way large enterprises make choices about their development activities so that they can get optimal business value out of their software development investments.
In this episode of Computer Science Spotlight, Clay gives an overview of his governance project.
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Series producer: Barbara Finkelstein
Music: Walking the Dogg by the Dejunair Project
Last updated June 6, 2008