Hello, Ft. Lauderdale: here’s V06 of my “Top Ten Software Engineering Concepts” presentation

For the “Software Best Practices” seminars where I’ll be speaking in Ft. Lauderdale and Austin this week, I’ve provided several different ways of downloading the presentation materials. None of the material is copyrighted; it’s all “open source,” and you’re welcome to use it, modify it, share it with friends and colleagues, and collaborate with me [...]

New version of Top Ten Software Engineering Concepts

I’ve just uploaded a new version (v05) of my “Top Ten Software Engineering Concepts” presentation to slideshare.net; to access it, click here. I’m working on making it available as a Google Apps presentation document, and also a downloadable PDF document; hopefully that will all be available in the next couple of days …

Top Ten Software Engineering Ideas, Albany-style

I’m participating in a “Software Best Practices” seminar in Albany tomorrow (click here for details on future venues of this seminar, hosted by IT Metrics & Productivity Institute — including Ft. Lauderdale and Austin next week), and I’ll be giving a talk on the “Top Ten Software Engineering Ideas.” To download the 20.5-megabyte PDF of [...]

Top 10 Software Engineering Concepts, in Detroit

I’ll be giving a presentation on the “top 10 software engineering concepts” at a software best-practices seminar in Detroit today; for more details about this and future seminars (including, for example, Jacksonville next week, and Austin next month), click here. If you’d like to download a 15.9-megabyte PDF of the one-page mind-map for the presentation, [...]

Web 2.0 mindmap, v035

I’m giving a presentation on Web 2.0 technologies for the Atlanta SPIN organization tomorrow evening (for details and directions to the meeting location, click here), and I thought it would be a good idea to update the mind-map I’ve been refining and extending over the past year and a half; I’m up to version 35 [...]

Michael Mah: offshore-developed software projects have 2.8X as many bugs as average software projects

Don’t shoot the messenger, okay? I didn’t generate these sobering statistics myself, and while there’s an underlying rationale that makes sense to me, I haven’t had a chance to personally validate them. If you want more details, you should contact Michael Mah himself; I’ll provide more details on who he is, and where he got [...]