October 17th, 2006
I had the good fortune to be invited to participate in Construx’s Executive Summit conference in Seattle this week, and have just finished the first day of the conference. The highlight of the first day was the opening keynote presentation by Steve McConnell, founder of the firm, and author of a number of excellent books […]
October 16th, 2006
Ian Delaney emailed me last night to point out that I had misspelled the name of his blog, which I had added to version 22 of the Web 2.0 mind-map in yesterday’s blog posting. I’ve corrected the entry (which appears on the “Blogs and Websites” page of the mind-map, and you can find the most […]
October 15th, 2006
I’ve added some new links to interesting articles, analyses, guidelines, and other resources to my Web 2.0 mind-map. You can find it in the “downloads” section of my main web site at www.yourdon.com/downloads, or you can simply download the 7.1-megabyte PDF by clicking here.
Here’s a summary of what I’ve added to this version:
On the “Websites […]
October 12th, 2006
I’ll be speaking at the Chicago venue of the 2006 “Software Best Practices” conference, organized by the IT Metrics and Productivity Institute. For more details, click here.
October 10th, 2006
It’s been a while since I last updated my Web 2.0 mind-map. I’ve been steadily acquiring links to interesting articles, analyses, guidelines, and other resources, and have now incorporated them into version 20 of the mind-map. You can find it in the “downloads” section of my main web site at www.yourdon.com/downloads, or you can simply […]
October 7th, 2006
During a presentation at a “Software Best Practices” conference in Washington yesterday, my friend Tom Love (an object-oriented guru and project management consultant whose work you should be aware of) recommended an intriguing book called Building the Empire State. It was published in 1998, so it’s not exactly new; and it’s ostensibly about architecture and […]
October 7th, 2006
I’ll be speaking at the Baltimore/Washington venue of the 2006 “Software Best Practices” conference, organized by the IT Metrics and Productivity Institute. For more details, click here.
October 4th, 2006
Yesterday, I wrote about a Computerworld article, entitled “The Ten Commandments of Project Management,” which proposed a number of “commandments” to ensure project management success. I thought it was a good start, but I’ve got an alternative list. Here it is:
Don’t fail to identify the key “players” who will ultimately declare “success” or “failure” […]
October 3rd, 2006
An interesting article showed up in Computerworld a couple days ago, entitled “The Ten Commandments of Project Management.” The author, James Kerr, suggests that “your company can position itself to enter the promised land of project-based culture” by adhering to the following commandments:
Thou shalt narrow project scope.
Thou shalt not suffer a fat team.
Thou shalt […]
October 2nd, 2006
I had a chance this afternoon to visit an old friend and colleague, Frank Moretti, at Columbia University’s Center New Media Teaching and Learning (CNMTL). Frank and two of his colleagues, Maurice Matiz and Jonah Bossewitch, gave me a quick overview of CNMTL’s vision of “purposeful use of technology in education,” and I’m still […]
