Moving Beyond SEI-CMM level one

I’m giving a presentation at the ITMPI “Software Best Practices” conference in Philadelphia on May 22nd on “Moving Beyond SEI-CMM Level 1″. Also speaking at the conference are David Herron, on “Measuring and Monitoring CMMI Process Improvement”; Bob Lawhorn, on “Transforming IT Management for Dramatic Business Success”; and Tim Lister, on “Risk Management is [...]

Politics of Metrics, V02

I’m giving a presentation on “The Politics of Metrics” in Rochester on May 15th, for a seminar being organized by the IT Metrics and Productivity Institute; it’s an updated version of the presentation I gave in Orlando a month or two ago.
You should attend in person, if possible, so you can not only hear my [...]

Future of Web 2.0

I’m giving a short presentation on the “future of Web 2.0″ at a CIO roundtable session in Chicago on May 12th. You can download the 14.2MB PDF version of the presentation:

Tweetwheel

If you’re a Twitter user, you must visit Tweetwheel to have it create a visual representation of your Twitter network — just type “www.tweetwheel.com/yourTwitterID” into your browser, and then sit back and watch it. Here’s mine (which may be impossible to read on the blog display, but is awesome on my 24-inch Apple display:

More on blogging vs. micro-blogging

Almost exactly a month ago, I blogged about “blogging vs. micro-blogging“. I now have a couple more pieces of data, which I think confirm the points I made in that first blog.
During the past month, I’ve written approximately 450 short “micro-blog” messages on Twitter; that works out to approximately 15 “tweets” a day. During the [...]

Russia photographs

I’ve uploaded about 150 photographs from my recent trip to St. Petersburg and Moscow. If you’re interested, you can see them here on Flickr.