May 29th, 2007
I had the great honor and pleasure of participating in a retrospective panel session on peopleware last week at the International Conference on Software Engineering (aka ICSE 2007) in Minneapolis, with some of the luminaries in the software field: Fred Brooks, Barry Boehm, Tom DeMarco, Tim Lister, and Linda Rising. The panel — celebrating the […]
February 21st, 2007
A couple days ago, I posted a blog entry to inform everyone that (a) the wiki version of my Just Enough Structured Analysis (JESA) book is now available, here; and (b) since it is a wiki, it’s available to everyone for editing and revision.
So far, this has elicited little more than a loud yawn (or […]
February 19th, 2007
Back in September of last year, I posted a blog entry indicating that I was starting a wiki project to revise and update a book I originally wrote in 1989, under the title of Modern Structured Analysis. The new version is called Just Enough Structured Analysis (aka JESA), and the wiki is located here. For […]
December 19th, 2006
For those who still believe that structured analysis is the greatest invention since peanut butter (which accounted for 50 percent of the U.S. peanut production in 2001 — bet you didn’t know that!), I’ve written a four-page retrospective summary of the topic in a just-published issue of ObjectView magazine. You can download it, free, as […]
October 18th, 2006
Chapters 14, 15, and 16 of my Just Enough Structured Analysis book have now been uploaded to the wiki, which you can find here.
This completes Part II of the book. There are still 9 chapters and 7 appendices to upload; as mentioned previously, it will probably take another couple of weeks to upload all […]
October 17th, 2006
Chapters 7, 8, and 13 of my Just Enough Structured Analysis book have now been uploaded to the wiki, which you can find here.
As mentioned previously, will probably take another few weeks to upload all of the material from the HTML-based manuscript, which is still on my website here.
In the meantime, you are welcome […]
October 17th, 2006
I had the good fortune to be invited to participate in Construx’s Executive Summit conference in Seattle this week, and have just finished the first day of the conference. The highlight of the first day was the opening keynote presentation by Steve McConnell, founder of the firm, and author of a number of excellent books […]
September 29th, 2006
Chapter 6 of my Just Enough Structured Analysis book has now been uploaded to the wiki, which you can find here. This chapter discusses major issues in systems development, and while it was updated in 2000, it definitely needs another round of updating. I’ll plan to look at this chapter more carefully in the coming […]
September 27th, 2006
Chapter 5 of my Just Enough Structured Analysis book has now been uploaded to the wiki, which you can find here. This chapter discusses the “project life cycle,” and while it was updated in 2000 to include some references to XP and agile methods, it definitely needs another round of updating. I’ll plan to […]
September 27th, 2006
Chapters 3 and 4 of my Just Enough Structured Analysis book has now been uploaded to the wiki, which you can find here.
As mentioned previously, I’ll probably continue moving forward through the remaining chapters, at an average rate of a chapter a day. It will probably take another few weeks to upload all of […]
