October 15th, 2011
I spent most of last week in Rome, presenting a three-day seminar on “Extreme Project Management” for Technology Transfer Institute. If you were stuck in some other part of the world, or if you couldn’t persuade your boss to send you to Rome, you can click here to view and download the 7MB) PDF version of the [...]
November 7th, 2010
I spent most of last week in Rome, presenting a three-day seminar on “Extreme Project Management” for Technology Transfer Institute. If you were stuck in some other part of the world, or if you couldn’t persuade your boss to send you to Rome, you can click here to view and download the 25MB) PDF version of the [...]
June 1st, 2010
The last several postings in this thread about the future of technology have focused on the consequences of hardware advances — e.g., all of the marvelous things we can look forward to in the next 5-10 years as a result of computers/chips that are 10-100 times cheaper, faster, smaller, etc.
But as an intellectual exercise, suppose [...]
May 3rd, 2010
I’m giving a presentation on “Learning to Love Software Maintenance” at the Software Best Practices Conference sponsored by the IT Metrics and Productivity Institute in beautiful downtown Trenton, NJ on May 4, 2010. You should be there so you can meet and hear some of the other great speakers at the conference, as well as whatever clever jokes may [...]
March 16th, 2010
I’m giving a one-hour presentation Tues evening (Mar 16th) on “Death March Projects in Today’s Hard Times,” at the regular monthly meeting of Boston’s Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN) chapter. It will take place in one of the buildings of MITRE’s campus in Bedford, MA, somewhere in the vast wilderness north of Route 128. You [...]
November 30th, 2009
I’m here in Rome this week, presenting a two-day seminar on “Managing Death-March Projects” for Technology Transfer Institute. You should be there so you can hear whatever clever jokes may occur to me while I’m presenting my material, as well as the comments and questions from the other participants. But if you’re stuck in some [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
