Sun, 4 May 2008  Show 32 is part two of my interview with Murali Chemuturi on the topic of estimation. You might think part two is just more of the same but think again. Murali has laid out some interesting theories and data. Mr Chemuturi has made a very gracious offer, for every comment SPaMCAST gets on Murali’s interview Murali has authorized me to send a PDF copy of his new book on estimation. Mr. Chemuturi has over thirty four years of total experience out of which about fourteen years have been spent in the field of information technology. Has worked at TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES for five and half years and at ELECTRONICS COROPORATION OF INDIA LIMITED for nineteen. Murali also worked at SATYAM COMPUTER SERVICES LTD., METAMOR GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LTD. and Vistaar eBusinesses Pvt Ltd. His CV includes numerous publications and he is the author of an upcoming book on estimation which I will review on a future Software Measurement and Process Cast.
Mr. Chemuturi can be contacted by email at murali@chemuturi.com or by phone at 91-40-27220771, 91-0-988-501-9461 and in the USA at 1- 347-394-3138. His web site can be found at http://www.effortestimator.com
The essay is an excerpt from “When Good Numbers Go Bad” titled “When Communication makes Good Numbers Go Bad”. The excerpt explores how poor communication can effect a metrics program (and is a bit of foreshadowing of a presentation I will be doing later this year (see below). The text of the essay can be found at www.tcagley.wordpress.com. Comments and corrections are welcome. There are a number of ways to share your thoughts . .
Future Events and the next . . . I have a couple of free webinars coming up in early 2008. The first is “Getting Performance Improvement Out of Your Software Process Improvement” on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT I have another webinar coming up in May. The webinar is titled “A Cost Effective Approach to Enterprise Wide Software Process Improvement” May 22nd, 2008 at 10:00 am - 11:30 am Eastern Time More information and registration information can be found at http://www.itmpi.org/webinars/ Conference season is beginning! I will be speaking at IFPUG’s 3rd Annual ISMA Conference and Fall Workshops Sunday, September 14 – Friday, September 19, 2008 at the Westin Arlington Gateway Hotel information at www.ifpug.org. The presentation is call “Counting Facebook” and will be on Friday September 19, 2008 at 10:25 AM - 11:25 AM, I am speaking at Quest Toronto 2008 Conference, September 22- 26, 2008, at the Hilton Hotel in Toronto, Canada. I will be presenting “Good Numbers Go Bad” on Wed Sept 24th from 1:30 - 2:30 pm and also joining in as a subject matter expert in the end of day solutions workshop. Information can be found at http://www.qaiquest.org/toronto/ Finally I will be speaking at the Northeast Quality Council 57th Conference. The conference is scheduled for October 14 – 15 , 2008 in Marlborough, Massachusetts at Best Western Royal Plaza. The presentation is titled “One Size Fits . . .Someone Other Than Me”. Information can be found at http://www.neqc.org/conference. Next Software Process and Measurement Cast: On the next SPaMCAST we will jump back into the interview with Rob Donnellan of Q/P Management Group covering a wide range of measurement and process improvement topics. Your thoughts and comments are always a welcome addition and remember I have Murali’s PDF with your name on it!
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Sun, 20 April 2008  Show 31 features an interview with Scott Ambler of IBM discussing Test Driven Development and other Agile topics.
Scott W. Ambler is the Practice Leader Agile Development with IBM Rational and he works with IBM customers around the world to improve their software processes. He is the founder of the Agile Modeling (AM), Agile Data (AD), Agile Unified Process (AUP), and Enterprise Unified Process (EUP) methodologies. Scott is the (co-)author of 19 books, including Refactoring Databases, Agile Modeling, Agile Database Techniques, The Object Primer 3rd Edition, and The Enterprise Unified Process. Scott is a senior contributing editor with Dr. Dobb’s Journal.
Check out Mr. ambler’s blogs at: Personal home page: www.ibm.com/rational/bios/ambler.html Agile at Scale blog: www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/ambler.
The essay for this cast is titled “Are Words a Predictor of Change Adoption”. The essay explores the relationship between words and what they predict about success in process improvement. The text of the essay can be found at www.tcagley.wordpress.com. Comments and corrections are welcome. There are a number of ways to share your thoughts . .
Future Events and the next . . . I have a couple of free webinars coming up in early 2008. The first is “Getting Performance Improvement Out of Your Software Process Improvement” on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT And the second is titled “A Cost Effective Approach to Enterprise Wide Software Process Improvement” May 22nd, 2008 at 10:00 am - 11:30 am Eastern Time More information and registration information can be found at http://www.itmpi.org/webinars/ Next Software Process and Measurement Cast: On the next SPaMCAST I will be airing part 2 of the interview with Murali Chemuturi on estimation and software sizing. To describe the interview I will just say “damn!” and let you dive in. Your thoughts and comments are always a welcome addition . . .
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Sun, 6 April 2008 SPaMCAST 30 – Donnellan, Metrics Programs, Passion and
Success Show 30 begins a two part
interview with Rob Donnellan on the topic of metrics programs. Rob
Donnellan, IT Excellence Value Builder, has more than 28 years of industry
experience. Rob delivers executive-level "IT
Excellence" consulting. Prior to joining Q/P Management Group, Rob
was a Director with META Group, Nautilus Advisors (an outsourcing consultancy),
and Cap Gemini. His key responsibilities have been to develop
next-generation consulting services, and to lead IT management consulting
projects primarily devoted to process improvement, IT portfolio management, IT
diagnosis, performance engineering/measurement, and benchmarking. He has
been a regular speaker for industry organizations such as the APQC, PMI, SPIN,
SIM, IFPUG, and The Balanced Scorecard Collaborative. He holds a Masters
Degree in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a B.A. in
Liberal Arts from the Mr. Donnellan can be contacted
by email at rob.donnellan@qpmg.com or by phone at (401) 783-3005. Q/P Management Group’s web site can be found
at http://www.qpmg.com/. The essay for
this cast is titled “Passion and Success”. The essay discusses the relationship between
passion and success in process improvment. The text of the essay can be found at www.tcagley.wordpress.com. Comments and corrections are welcome. There are a number of ways to share your thoughts . .
Future
Events and the next . . . I
have a couple of free webinars coming up in early 2008. The first is “Getting Performance Improvement
Out of Your Software Process Improvement” on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:00 AM
- 11:30 AM EDT And
the second is titled “A Cost Effective Approach to Enterprise Wide Software
Process Improvement” May 22nd, 2008 at 10:00 am - 11:30 am Eastern Time More
information and registration information can be found at http://www.itmpi.org/webinars/ Next Software Process and Measurement Cast: On the next
SPaMCAST I will be airing an interview I did with Scott Ambler on scaling test driven
development. Agilistas, this one is for
you! Part 2 of the interview with Rob
will air on show 33. Your thoughts and comments are always a welcome addition .
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Sun, 23 March 2008  Show 29 begins a two part interview with Murali Chemuturi on the topic of estimation. This is not the first time the Cast has examined estimation however I think you will find that Murali’s thoughts will add your knowledge base and might even spark heated debate.
Mr. Chemuturi can be contacted by email at murali@chemuturi.com or by phone at 91-40-27220771, 91-0-988-501-9461 and in the USA at 1- 347-394-3138. His web site can be found at http://www.effortestimator.com
The essay for this cast is titled “Responsibility, Got Some?”. The essay discusses the evil alter ego of committees and consensus management. The text of the essay can be found at www.tcagley.wordpress.com. Comments and corrections are welcome. There are a number of ways to share your thoughts . .
Future Events and the next . . . I have a couple of free webinars coming up in early 2008. The first is “Getting Performance Improvement Out of Your Software Process Improvement” on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT And the second is titled “A Cost Effective Approach to Enterprise Wide Software Process Improvement” May 22nd, 2008 at 10:00 am - 11:30 am Eastern Time More information and registration information can be found at http://www.itmpi.org/webinars/ Next Software Process and Measurement Cast: On the next SPaMCAST I am trying something new. I am breaking up parts one and two of the interview with Murali and beginning a two part interview with Rob Donnellan of Q/P Management Group covering a wide range of measurement and process improvement topics. We will pick back up with Murali on show 32. Your thoughts and comments are always a welcome addition . . . Direct download: SPaMCAST_29_-_Chemuturi_Estimation_Responsibility.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 5:00 PM Comments[0] |
Sun, 2 March 2008 Show 28 features Part Two of
an interview with Ivar Jacobson, author, pundit and one of the creators of
UML. The discussion covered topics
ranging from methodologies to his new concept, practices. If process improvement and methodology are
important to you, this is an important interview full of new concepts. An abridged version of Mr.
Jacobson’s Wikipedia biography notes that he is a Swedish computer scientist he
holds a Masters of Electrical Engineering at Chalmers Institute of Technology
in Gothenburg
and a Ph.D. from
the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. In 1967 he proposed the use of
software components in the development of the
new generation of software controlled telephone
switches Ericsson
was developing. In doing this he invented sequence
diagrams, and developed collaboration diagrams. He also applied state
transition diagrams to describe the message flow between the components. At Ericsson he also invented use cases as
a way to specify functional software requirements. In April 1987 he quit Ericsson
and started Objective Systems. A majority stake of the
company was acquired by Ericsson in 1991 (you can run but . . .), and the company was renamed to Objectory
AB. In October 1995 Ericsson
divested Objectory to Rational Software [1] and Ivar started working
with Grady
Booch and James Rumbaugh to first create the UML, and later develop the Rational Unified Process. In mid 2003 Ivar formed Ivar
Jacobson International (IJI) which is an umbrella company for Ivar
Jacobson Consulting (IJC) which operates across 4 continents with offices
in the UK, US (West and East Coast), Scandinavia, China, Korea, Singapore and
Australia. In November 2005, Jacobson
announced the Essential Unified Process or “EssUP” for
short. EssUP is a new “Practice” centric software development process that
stands on the shoulders of modern but established software development best
practice. It is a fresh new start integrating successful practices sourced from
the three leading process camps: the unified process camp, the agile methods
camp and the process maturity camp. Each one of them contributes different
capabilities: structure, agility and process improvement. Ivar has described EssUP as a
"super light and agile" RUP and IJC have integrated EssUP into Microsoft Visual Studio Team System and Eclipse. Check out http://www.ivarjacobson.com and http://www.ivarblog.com/
There are a number of ways to share your thoughts . .
Future
Events and the next . . . I
have a couple of free webinars coming up in early 2008. The first is “Getting Performance Improvement
Out of Your Software Process Improvement” on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:00 AM
- 11:30 AM EDT And
the second is titled “A Cost Effective Approach to Enterprise Wide Software
Process Improvement” May 22nd, 2008 at 10:00 am - 11:30 am Eastern Time More
information and registration information can be found at http://www.itmpi.org/webinars/ Next Software Process and Measurement Cast: The
Software Process and Measurement Cast 29 will feature an interview with Murali
Chemuturi on estimation. Murali’s take
on estimation is razor sharp and will be a valuable addition to your knowledge
base. Your thoughts and comments would
be a welcome addition . . . Direct download: SPaMCAST_28_-__Ivar_Jacobson_The_Future_Social_Media.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 5:00 PM Comments[0] |
Sun, 10 February 2008
Show 27 features part one of an
interview with Ivar Jacobson, author, pundit and one of the creators of UML. The discussion covered topics ranging from methodologies
to his new concept, practices. If
process improvement and methodology are important to you, this is an important
interview full of new concepts. An abridged version of Mr.
Jacobson’s Wikipedia biography notes that he is a Swedish computer scientist he
holds a Masters of Electrical Engineering at Chalmers Institute of Technology
in Gothenburg
and a Ph.D. from
the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. In 1967 he proposed the use of
software components in the development of the
new generation of software controlled telephone
switches Ericsson
was developing. In doing this he invented sequence
diagrams, and developed collaboration diagrams. He also applied state
transition diagrams to describe the message flow between the components. At Ericsson he also invented use cases as
a way to specify functional software requirements. In April 1987 he quit Ericsson
and started Objective Systems. A majority stake of the
company was acquired by Ericsson in 1991 (you can run but . . .) , and the company was renamed to Objectory
AB. In October 1995 Ericsson
divested Objectory to Rational Software [1] and Ivar started working
with Grady
Booch and James Rumbaugh to first create the UML, and later develop the Rational Unified Process. In mid 2003 Ivar formed Ivar
Jacobson International (IJI) which is an umbrella company for Ivar
Jacobson Consulting (IJC) which operates across 4 continents with offices
in the UK, US (West and East Coast), Scandinavia, China, Korea, Singapore and
Australia. In November 2005, Jacobson
announced the Essential Unified Process or “EssUP” for
short. EssUP is a new “Practice” centric software development process that
stands on the shoulders of modern but established software development best
practice. It is a fresh new start integrating successful practices sourced from
the three leading process camps: the unified process camp, the agile methods
camp and the process maturity camp. Each one of them contributes different
capabilities: structure, agility and process improvement. Ivar has described EssUP as a
"super light and agile" RUP and IJC have integrated EssUP into Microsoft Visual Studio Team System and Eclipse. Check out http://www.ivarjacobson.com and http://www.ivarblog.com/ The essay for
this cast is titled “We Are All Futurists.” The essay discusses the basis for predicting
the future (can you say estimation) and why some people shy away from being a
futurist. The text of the essay can be
found at www.tcagley.wordpress.com. Comments and corrections are welcome. There are a number of ways to share your thoughts . .
Future
Events and the next . . . I
have a couple of free webinars coming up in early 2008. The first is “Getting Performance Improvement
Out of Your Software Process Improvement” on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:00 AM
- 11:30 AM EDT And
the second is titled “A Cost Effective Approach to Enterprise Wide Software
Process Improvement” May 22nd, 2008 at 10:00 am - 11:30 am Eastern Time More
information and registration information can be found at http://www.itmpi.org/webinars/ Next Software Process and Measurement Cast: The next
Software Process and Measurement Cast will be a special show. Cast 28 will feature part two of the interview
with Ivar Jacobson. Your thoughts and
comments would be a welcome addition . . . Direct download: SPaMCAST_27_-_Jacobson_Practices_Futurists.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 4:55 PM Comments[0] |
Sun, 27 January 2008  SPaMCAST 26 - Carr, The Big Switch, Center
Show 26 features an interview with Nicolas Carr, author of “The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google” and “Does IT Matter”. The discussion ranged from computing as a utility to the impact of ubiquitous computing on business and society. Mr. Carr is a former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review. He writes and speaks on technology, business, and culture. His 2004 book Does IT Matter? Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage, published by Harvard Business School Press, set off a worldwide debate about the role of computers in business. His new book, The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google, examines the future of computing and its implications for business and society. He also edited and wrote the introduction for The Digital Enterprise, a book of HBR writings on the Internet, and contributed to World View, Organizing Business Knowledge, and When Good People Behave Badly. Check out www.roughtype.com/ and www.bigswitchbook.com
The essay for this cast is titled “The Center Will Not Hold.” The essay discusses change and the life cycle of how extreme changes evolve the mainstream over time. The text of the essay can be found at www.tcagley.wordpress.com. Comments and corrections are welcome. There are a number of ways to share your thoughts . .
Future Events and the next . . . I have a couple of free webinars coming up in early 2008. The first is “Getting Performance Improvement Out of Your Software Process Improvement” on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT And the second is titled “A Cost Effective Approach to Enterprise Wide Software Process Improvement” May 22nd, 2008 at 10:00 am - 11:30 am Eastern Time More information and registration information can be found at http://www.itmpi.org/webinars/ Next Software Process and Measurement Cast: The next Software Process and Measurement Cast will be a special show. Cast 27 will feature a interview with Ivar Jacobson. Your thoughts and comments would be a welcome addition . . .
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Sun, 13 January 2008 
SPaMCAST 25 - Booch,
Omnibus Framework
At random times, the laws of physics do not apply to him. He is not dead yet. Check out www.booch.com/architecture/Contact Grady at architecture@booch.com There are a number of ways to share your thoughts . .
Future
Events and the next . . . I
have a couple of free webinars coming up in early 2008. The first is “Getting Performance Improvement
Out of Your Software Process Improvement” on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:00 AM
- 11:30 AM EDT And
the second is titled “A Cost Effective Approach to Enterprise Wide Software
Process Improvement” May 22nd, 2008 at 10:00 am - 11:30 am Eastern Time More
information and registration information can be found at http://www.itmpi.org/webinars/ Next Software Process and Measurement Cast: The next
Software Process and Measurement Cast will be a special show. Cast 26 will be a retrospective of the past
year highlighting SPaMCAST’s first year.
Your thoughts and comments would
be a welcome addition . . . Comments[0] |
Sun, 30 December 2007 
SPaMCAST 24 -
Edelson, Coaching, Specialization ** Note – Traceability paper will be
out on the feed this week. ** Show 24 features an interview with Marilyn Edelson, a Principal at IT Decisions Coaching LLC. The interview covers project management, leadership, the similarities, differences and how coaching can make both better. This was a wide ranging interview with lots of tips and take “aways”! Marilyn Edelson, cofounder, is a Master Certified Coach, entrepreneur and certified Best Year Yet® program leader with over 25 years experience in behavioral management. She has has been coaching executives, managers and corporate teams for the past 10 years and was voted 'Top 10 Coach 2007' by Women's Business Boston (a division of The Boston Herald). She has a strong behavioral background and easily integrates the principals of emotional and social intelligence with the structured, measurable results oriented approach provided by the Best Year Yet® system and DiSC behavioral and values assessment tools. She teaches, mentors and trains professional coaches, and is the coaching consultant for the first National Institute of Health study on the efficacy of coaching in healthcare. She holds a Master of Science degree from Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.Here are the links for ITDC and Marilyn! IT Decisions Coaching - www.itdecisionscoaching.com/ ITDC email: info@itdecisionscoaching.com Marilyn’s email:
m.edelson@itdecisionscoaching.com There are a number of ways to share your thoughts . .
I
have a couple of free webinars coming up in early 2008. The first is “Getting Performance Improvement
Out of Your Software Process Improvement” on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:00 AM
- 11:30 AM EDT And
the second is titled “A Cost Effective Approach to Enterprise Wide Software
Process Improvement” May 22nd, 2008 at 10:00 am - 11:30 am Eastern Time More
information and registration information can be found at http://www.itmpi.org/webinars/ Next Software Process and Measurement Cast: The next
Software Process and Measurement Cast features an interview with Grady Booch chief
scientist of Rational Software (now a part of IBM). We will discuss structure, design,
architecture, agility and discipline amongst other things. This is another of those interviews where you
will want to take notes! Direct download: SPaMCAST_24_-_Edelson_Coaching_Specialization.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 5:00 PM Comments[1] |
Sun, 16 December 2007 
SPaMCAST 23 - Rothman,
Project Management , Traceability ** I believe I am back on track
since the motherboard failure. We should
be back on track for delivering your favorite process improvement and
measurement content every other week! ** Show 23 features an interview with Johanna Rothman.
The interview is titled, “Project
Management in the Post Waterfall World”.
While the title is a bit fanciful I would suggest that the ideas
espoused are very powerful and pertinent to how work is done and managed. Johanna Rothman consults, speaks, and writes on
managing high-technology product development. She assists managers, teams, and
organizations to become more effective by applying her pragmatic approaches to
the issues of project management, risk management, and people management. She’s
helped Engineering organizations, IT organizations, and startups hire technical
people, manage projects, and release successful products faster. Johanna is the author of Manage It! Your Guide to
Modern, Pragmatic Project Management, the coauthor (with Esther Derby) of
Behind Closed Doors, Secrets of Great Management, and the author of Hiring the
Best Knowledge Workers, Techies & Nerds: The Secrets and Science of Hiring
Technical People. Johanna is a host and session leader at the Amplifying Your
Effectiveness (AYE) conference. The AYE site is http://www.ayeconference.com Here are the links to Joanna’s books and blogs: Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project
Management: <http://www.pragprog.com/titles/jrpm> Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great
Management: <http://www.pragprog.com/titles/rdbcd> Hiring The Best Knowledge Workers, Techies &
Nerds: The Secrets & Science of Hiring Technical People: <http://www.dorsethouse.com/books/hire.html> Hiring Technical People blog <http://www.jrothman.com/blog/htp> Managing Product Development blog <http://www.jrothman.com/blog/mpd> The essay
is titled is the synopsis of “Traceability:
A Radical Approach Based on User Involvement.” I am excited as I have
finally completed the essay and I think it adds a lot to the discussion of
traceability and tailoring. I will push entire document out on the
SPaMCAST feed later this week. The text of the synopsis can be found at www.tcagley.wordpress.com. Comments and corrections are welcome. There are a number of ways to share your thoughts . .
Future
Events and the next . . . I
have a couple of free webinars coming up in early 2008. The first is “Getting Performance Improvement
Out of Your Software Process Improvement” on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:00 AM
- 11:30 AM EDT And
the second is titled “A Cost Effective Approach to Enterprise Wide Software
Process Improvement” May 22nd, 2008 at 10:00 am - 11:30 am Eastern Time More
information and registration information can be found at http://www.itmpi.org/webinars/ Next Software Process and Measurement Cast: The
next Software Process and Measurement Cast features an interview with Marilyn
Edelson of IT Decisions Coaching (ITDC).
We will be discussing unlocking the door of success via coach, mentoring
and goals just in time to plan the New Year Direct download: SPaMCAST_23_-_Rothman_Project_Management__Traceability.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 5:00 PM Comments[0] |
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