March 28th, 2008
I gave a presentation at the “Software Best Practices” conference in Orlando yesterday on the topic of “Moving Beyond SEI-CMM level one.” Of course, you had to actually be there to hear all of the subtle jokes, sly innuendos, and double-entendres … but if you’d just like to see the presentation itself, you can […]
January 19th, 2008
Every couple of years, my friend Tom DeMarco turns the computing world upside down with a new book. Sometimes he writes alone (see, for example, Slack: getting past burnout, busywork, and the myth of total efficiency and The Deadline: a novel about project management). Often, he writes with our mutual friend and colleague, Tim Lister […]
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 […]
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 — […]
November 11th, 2007
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 […]
November 10th, 2007
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 …
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 the […]
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 […]
