November 13th, 2007
I just listened to a fascinating presentation by Paul Strassmann at the IT Metrics & Produtivity Institute “Software Best Practice” conference Ft. Lauderdale. It was a detailed analysis of the IT transformation that began a couple years ago at HP, and is still underway. You can see a one-page summary of the results of that […]
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 […]
November 2nd, 2007
I brought along an interesting book on my trip to Rome last weekend, and thought I’d recommend it to those of you who have the good luck, or bad luck (depending on your perspective) of managing geeks. The book is Leading Geeks, by Paul Glen; it’s about 250 pages of straightforward reading, and qualifies reasonably […]
October 28th, 2007
It’s been a busy week in the Web 2.0 world, and I’m also putting the finishing touches on a two-day Web 2.0 seminar that I’m presenting in Rome. As a result, I’ve created a new version, V47, of my Web 2.0 materials. As usual, you can view the “ugly Betty” version of these materials as […]
October 22nd, 2007
I’ve made a few more updates to the Web 2.0 presentation material, in preparation for a 2-day seminar that I’ll be giving in Rome next week (click here for details). As usual, you can access this as a Google Docs presentation, by clicking here; or you can download the 19.8-megabyte PDF version of the presentation […]
October 21st, 2007
During three hectic days at the Web 2.0 Summit conference in San Francisco last week, I picked up a number of interesting factoids, statistics, links, references, and other items to incorporate into my ever-growing Web 2.0 presentation. In addition, I found a few broken links in the existing material, and have fixed them. (If you […]
October 19th, 2007
Partly inspired by all of the ideas, comments, ad references that I’ve picked up at this week’s Web 2.0 Summit conference, I’ve made a number of updates to my Web 2.0 Google Docs presentation; you can view it by clicking here. But since a couple thousand of us attendees are sharing the same wifi network […]
October 16th, 2007
I‘ll be giving a presentation on the “top 10 software engineering concepts” at an ITMPI software best-practices seminar in Jacksonville, FL today; for more details about this and future seminars (including, for example, Albany and Austin next month), click here.
If you’d like to download a 18.4-megabyte PDF of the one-page mind-map for the presentation, click […]
October 14th, 2007
I received an email today, out of the blue, from a consultant named Lambert O’Neill. I don’t know Mr. O’Neill, but based on the subject line of his email, I was expecting a message about death-march projects. But here’s what his message said (this is all verbatim; I haven’t even corrected a few innocent typos […]
September 18th, 2007
I’m giving a presentation on Web 2.0 technologies for the Atlanta SPIN organization tomorrow evening (for details and directions to the meeting location, click here), and I thought it would be a good idea to update the mind-map I’ve been refining and extending over the past year and a half; I’m up to version 35 […]
