on SOA

Industry analyst firm Gartner estimates that by 2008, more than 60 percent of enterprises will use service-oriented architecture (SOA) as a guiding principle when creating essential software applications and business processes.

Source (dead link – http://www.ciol.com/content/special/soa/interview2.asp)

on forecasting

Forecasting is expensive. If people are expected to be accountable for their forecasts, the forecasts will be safe.

(dead link) Source (http://www.intellectualdetritus.com/2008/09/i-learned-why-agile-teams-like-to.html)