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 […]

Moving Beyond SEI-CMM level 1

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 […]

Apple’s iPhone SDK

When it comes to the iPhone, I’ll admit that I’m impatient, greedy, and also somewhat naive: I was hoping, for example, that Steve Jobs would announce today that (a) he’s shipping the full Software Development Kit (SDK), but also (b) at least one commercial-grade 3rd-party product, developed with that SDK, was shipping today. Even if […]

The tension between “free” and “mission-critical”

When I was a kid, one of the aphorisms I was taught was “never look a gift horse in the mouth.” Nobody ever gave me a horse, nor did I ever buy one or own one. So I have no idea what I would have seen if I did look a horse — “gift” or […]

Michael Krigsman interviews me

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 […]

Here Comes Another Bubble

Here’s a cheery little video to brighten up your weekend; I learned about it from my friend Mo Bjornestad, and I suspect it’s already been viewed by every single person who lives in Silicon Valley …

Web 2.0 version 49

Once again, it’s time for an update to my Web 2.0 presentation. There’s nothing really earthshaking here, but the bits and pieces of new material help round out the overall picture of what’s happening in the Web 2.0 world.
As usual, the new version is available to you in several different formats. If you’d like to […]

Hello Austin: here’s V07 of my “Top Ten Software Engineering Concepts” presentation

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 — […]