July 11th, 2010
Imagine that I’m the “confessor priest” in an IT project confessional environment, and a troubled project manager walks into my office, and tells me that in a fit of rage, he has just shot an obnoxious, uncooperative, unproductive members of his project team — point blank, right between the eyes. What should I do?
Or consider [...]
November 16th, 2009
I’m giving a presentation on “The Politics of Metrics” at the Software Best Practices Conference sponsored by the IT Metrics and Productivity Institute in Ft. Lauderdale, FL on Nov 17, 2009. 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 occur to [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
June 8th, 2008
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 [...]
May 21st, 2008
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 [...]
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 [...]
