March 16th, 2009
As noted in a previous blog posting, I’ve begun writing a new, updated edition of my Death March book, which was last updated in 2003.
Having already uploaded the Table of Contents, and preface, I’ve now finished Chapter 1, which includes a new section entitled “Why Are Today’s Death-March Projects Different Than The Ones In The Past?”
All of this [...]
March 14th, 2009
As noted in a previous blog, I’ve begun writing a new, updated edition of my Death March book, which was last updated in 2003.
Having already uploaded the Table of Contents, a preface, and the first two sections (one of which is completely new) of Chapter 1, I’ve now added a third section: “Categories of Death March Projects”.
All of [...]
March 13th, 2009
I’ve begun writing a new, updated edition of my Death March book, which was last updated in 2003.During the ensuing six years, there have been a number of good things — especially collaborative Web 2.0 tools and technologies (including blogs, wikis, etc.) — that have made it easier to manage and participate in death-march projects. But [...]
November 13th, 2008
I’m giving a presentation on “Top 10 Software Engineering Concepts” at a CompAid “Software Best Practices” conference in Chicago on November 13th. I hope you’ll be there in person to hear all the nuances; but if you’re stuck in some other part of the world, you’re welcome to download the (10 megabyte) PDF version of [...]
October 30th, 2008
I’m giving a 2-hour presentation on “Death March” projects at the Parsons New School for Design in New York City tomorrow (October 31st). I took a version of the presentation that I gave in Russia last month, made a few modifications, and then told Apple’s Keynote program to skip roughly half of the slides. But I’ve uploaded [...]
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.
November 26th, 2007
I’ll be presenting a 90-minute Webinar on “managing death-march projects” tomorrow — specifically, Tuesday, November 27th from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM Eastern Standard time. You can already see the presentation materials on Google Docs (look on the “my presentations” tab of my blog), but the Webinar will have the additional benefit of my talking [...]
November 19th, 2007
I’ll be presenting a 90-minute Webinar on “managing death-march projects” next week — specifically, Monday, November 27th from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM Eastern Standard time. You can already see the presentation materials on Google Docs (look on the “my presentations” tab of my blog), but the Webinar will have the additional benefit of my [...]
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 — [...]
