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 [...]
September 21st, 2008
I’m giving a one-day seminar presentation on “Peopleware” in St. Petersburg, Russia on Sep 22nd. If you’d like to download the 3-megabyte PDF file, click on the icon below.
June 10th, 2008
While I was presenting my Web 2.0 seminar in Rome this week, I had a chance to review and edit the V53 Web 2.0 materials that I recently uploaded — as well as adding some new material based on the June 9, 2008 Apple presentation about its new iPhone3g. The result is a new V54 [...]
January 17th, 2008
Michael Krigsman, a well-known ZDnet blogger, interviewed me on the phone last week for his Naked IT series, and wrote up a summary of the results. I’m not going to summarize his summary, other than to reassure you that I wasn’t naked in the interview. It’s easier to just point you to it — click [...]
December 3rd, 2007
A couple days ago, I wrote about implementing some techniques for reducing e-mail distractions and interruptions, based on suggestions that I had found in Tim Ferriss‘ book, The 4-hour Workweek. I’m pleased to report that — at least so far — the techniques work. Significantly, none of the people who interact with me by email [...]
November 14th, 2007
For the “Software Best Practices” seminars where I’ll be speaking in Austin tomorrow, I’ve made a substantial number of updates and refinements to the material that I presented in Ft. Lauderdale a couple days ago. The material is fundamentally the same as before, but I’ve added a couple more recommended books, papers, and articles — [...]
November 7th, 2007
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 [...]
November 2nd, 2007
I brought along an interesting book on my trip to Rome last weekend, and thought I’d recommend it to those of you who have the good luck, or bad luck (depending on your perspective) of managing geeks. The book is Leading Geeks, by Paul Glen; it’s about 250 pages of straightforward reading, and qualifies reasonably [...]
October 11th, 2007
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, [...]
February 13th, 2007
Another day, another chapter: I’ve now read through Chapter 3 of Scott Rosenberg‘s Dreaming in Code, and will offer a few comments and observations. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, you might want to skip back to some earlier blog entries that discuss the preface and initial chapters of the book; links [...]
