April 28th, 2008
I returned yesterday from my first visit to Russia — which consisted of a week in St. Petersburg and Moscow — and am struggling to provide some observations and impressions that won’t seem superficial to friends and colleagues in both countries. One reason I’m sensitive about this is that I often meet people in other […]
April 25th, 2008
I’m giving a presentation on “User reactions to XP/Agile development” to the Agile Development group in Moscow this evening. You’ve got to actually be there (wherever “there” is; hopefully I’ll find out in time!) to hear the additional commentary, comments, jokes, and explanations. But if you’d like to download the 2.7-megabyte PDF file for the […]
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 […]
March 14th, 2008
Shortly after I graduated from MIT in the mid-1960s, the Cambridge/Boston geek community was intrigued by the announcement of a computer program called Eliza, developed by MIT computer science professor Joseph Weizenbaum. I never had the pleasure of taking any courses from Professor Weizenbaum while I was in college, but I was fascinated by the […]
March 1st, 2008
I’m giving a presentation next month on the politics associated with introducing a software metrics initiative in a typical IT organization. Most presentations, articles, and books that I’ve seen in this area focus on why it’s important to measure various things about software development … and what things we should be measuring … and how […]
February 9th, 2008
A recent Joel Spolsky blog posting alerted me to the intriguing features of TripIt.com, a travel-management site that I had heard of, but never used before. By coincidence, I had just finished making plane, hotel, and auto-rental reservations for a trip in March, so I had just received the basic documents that TripIt requires to […]
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 […]
