In tightly coupled organizations, supervisors know exactly what all their employees are doing and management can coordinate all the activities of different departments according to a central strategy.

In my previous post, I discussed the virtues of loosely coupling, rising it to the level of an IT commandment. One reader, Richard Veryard, responded in his own Weblog, however, that maybe loose ...

Loose coupling is one of those suddenly popular great ideas that have actually been around for a long time. With loose coupling come two significant benefits long sought by business and IT managers: ...