Top Ten Software Engineering Concepts, v10

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 […]

“Death March” at Parsons New School for Design

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 […]

New Jersey Software Process Symposium

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 […]

Peopleware seminar in St. Petersburg, Russia

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.

Web 2.0 version v54

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 […]

Web 2.0, version 53

During the past week, I’ve had a chance to review and edit the V52 Web 2.0 materials that I recently published. The result is a new V53 version, which you can download as a PDF file by clicking here or on the picture below, or which you can view/download by visiting my Slideshare page. The […]

Moving Beyond SEI-CMM level one

I’m giving a presentation at the ITMPI “Software Best Practices” conference in Philadelphia on May 22nd on “Moving Beyond SEI-CMM Level 1″. Also speaking at the conference are David Herron, on “Measuring and Monitoring CMMI Process Improvement”; Bob Lawhorn, on “Transforming IT Management for Dramatic Business Success”; and Tim Lister, on “Risk Management is […]

Visiting Russia

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 […]

Agile presentation in Moscow

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 […]

Detroit presentation: “The Politics of Metrics”

I’ll be in Detroit on Tuesday, April 15th, giving a presentation on “The Politics of Metrics” at the “Software Best Practices” conference. If you’re not there in person, you’ll miss all of the clever jokes, subtle explanations, question-answer dialogue, etc.; but you can download the 1.5-megabyte PDF version of the presentation by clicking on the […]