July 6th, 2010
Imagine that you’re an IT project manager, and that you’ve just discovered you’ve made a terrible decision. It wasn’t deliberate, and perhaps it wasn’t even conscious; maybe it was a momentary outburst at an uncooperative programmer, caused by all the pressure and exhaustion from overtime. But now your uncooperative programmer has quit in a huff, [...]
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 [...]
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 2nd, 2008
On June 3rd, 2008, I’m giving a presentation on “Risk management in a competitive economic environment” at a CIO breakfast round-table in San Antonio, TX – sponsored by Computer Aid. If you’re a CIO or director-level IT manager in the San Antonio area, take a look at the details, and consider coming along. But if [...]
