November 30th, 2009
I’m here in Rome this week, presenting a two-day seminar on “Managing Death-March Projects” for Technology Transfer Institute. You should be there so you can hear whatever clever jokes may occur to me while I’m presenting my material, as well as the comments and questions from the other participants. But if you’re stuck in some [...]
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 [...]
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 2nd, 2008
On June 3rd, 2008, I’m giving a presentation on “Risk management in a competitive economic environment” at a CIO breakfast round-table in San Antonio, TX – sponsored by Computer Aid. If you’re a CIO or director-level IT manager in the San Antonio area, take a look at the details, and consider coming along. But if [...]
May 14th, 2008
I’m giving a presentation on “The Politics of Metrics” in Rochester on May 15th, for a seminar being organized by the IT Metrics and Productivity Institute; it’s an updated version of the presentation I gave in Orlando a month or two ago.
You should attend in person, if possible, so you can not only hear my [...]
April 14th, 2008
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 — [...]
