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 […]
January 17th, 2008
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 […]
December 29th, 2007
My family and I are leaving Sunday morning for a one-week vacation at Club Med. We’ll probably have Internet access, but I don’t plan on blogging while I’m there … partly because I think most other people are going to be focusing on their own New Year’s celebrations, but mostly because I really would like […]
November 26th, 2007
I’ll be presenting a 90-minute Webinar on “managing death-march projects” tomorrow — specifically, Tuesday, November 27th from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM Eastern Standard time. You can already see the presentation materials on Google Docs (look on the “my presentations” tab of my blog), but the Webinar will have the additional benefit of my talking […]
November 19th, 2007
I’ll be presenting a 90-minute Webinar on “managing death-march projects” next week — specifically, Monday, November 27th from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM Eastern Standard time. You can already see the presentation materials on Google Docs (look on the “my presentations” tab of my blog), but the Webinar will have the additional benefit of my […]
September 5th, 2007
Well, Labor Day has come and gone. And while the autumn season doesn’t officially begin (in the northern hemisphere) until September 21st or thereabouts, everyone is back from summer vacation, the kids are starting a new school year, the temperature has dropped a few degrees, and it’s time for new beginnings.
I’ve been offline for most […]
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 […]
November 26th, 2006
I posted a review of Bruce Taylor’s new book, Working Among Programmers, on Amazon’s web site this evening, and it occurred to me that people might find it useful to see the commentary here, too. And since Amazon’s primitive user-interface for creating reviews apparently doesn’t allow images, HTML formatting, or hyperlinks (c’mon, guys, get with […]
