October 13th, 2008
I’m giving a keynote address at the New Jersey Software Process Symposium on October 14th … somewhere in the wilderness of New Jersey. (All I know is that I’ve checked in at the New Brunswick Hyatt Regency hotel on the evening of the 13th, in the midst of pitch-black darkness all around, and I’ve got a Google Maps set of directions to get me to the conference tomorrow morning). I’m supposed to be talking on the “Impact of Web 2.0 on Software Development, Project Management and Process Improvement”:
But after a week of watching a gut-wrenching roller-coaster ride on the New York stock market, and reading various gloom-and-doom predictions of bad economic times ahead, I thought it would be more appropriate to replace that talk with a presentation on “Death-March 3: Software Processes in the New Hard Times”:
If you click on either icon, you’ll download a 12.2-megabyte PDF file that actually contains both presentations. So you can look at either one of them, depending on whether you’re feeling optimistic or pessimistic. Enjoy … or don’t.
October 14th, 2008 at 10:49 am
Actually I think both presentations are optimistic, even the one about the hard times is quite optimistic near the end. Like you said: “Most of these cycles last 2-3 years, and then
we’re back to good times”, and I think the industry will be stronger, because it will learn from the current situation and it will devise ways to increase and diversify the income (which, will probably be still valid when the good times are here again).
October 14th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/BreakingNews.html
Above site has Breaking News articles, many from MSM, that detail just what a disastrous financial situation confronts the world now. Much material to back up that doom! The news is so dramatic that ppl are actually starting to talk about the economy.
October 15th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
[…] our skill sets, but it’s not likely that anyone but us will bear those costs. You can find both sets of Ed’s slides on his website. As usual, we can do what we want with them. Sphere: Related […]
October 16th, 2008 at 9:24 am
Hi, Ed,
It will be 5 years before we get out of this hole; and never, if we the people continue to be as ignorant and/or corrupt as we are at present.
DeTocqueville was right: “Without an educated electorate, this delicate experiment called democracy is doomed to fail.”
Yourdon is exceptional, because he eschews bullshit.