In a 2nd post on the value of planning, Cary Milsap argues that "there's a time when the incremental value of planning drops beneath the value of actually doing something. "
Trond-Arne Undheim describes the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry's recently announced "Technology Reference Model (TRM) for the Procurement of Information Systems" as a "milestone in the work to make IT procurement fair and...the software market more sustainable."
Dain Hansen offers his top-5 list of year-end lists of coverage of the data Integration space. Dain describes his post as "a review of other year-in-reviews."