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 [...]
October 16th, 2007
I‘ll be giving a presentation on the “top 10 software engineering concepts” at an ITMPI software best-practices seminar in Jacksonville, FL today; for more details about this and future seminars (including, for example, Albany and Austin next month), click here. If you’d like to download a 18.4-megabyte PDF of the one-page mind-map for the presentation, [...]
February 20th, 2007
Well, so far I’ve gotten a total of zero comments, responses, cries for help, taunts, dares, or dirty jokes in response to yesterday’s blog about embarking upon a new edition of my Death March book. Well, maybe there were some dirty jokes; fortunately, my spam filter seems to do a pretty good job of eliminating [...]
February 18th, 2007
I was suddenly jerked awake from a bad dream, early this morning, with the urgent sense that it’s time to write a new edition of my Death-March book. God only knows what the dream was about; maybe I was being harassed by Dilbert‘s pointy-haired boss on a suicide-mission death-march project, or maybe I just had [...]
September 12th, 2006
I gave a presentation on death-march projects (see “Death march projects are back“) this afternoon at the Software Best Practices conference here in Albany, and it provided the opportunity to hear several other presentations during the course of the day — including Tony Salvaggio, Robert Lawhorn, and Joe Hessmiller of Computer Aid, Inc., and Herb [...]