Sun, 5 February 2012
Welcome to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 172! The SPaMCAST 172 features my interview Dr David Fraser. We discussed his book Relationship Mastery: A Business Professional’s Guide. If you are just focusing on the quantitative side of business relationships you have only half the tools you need to succeed! David Fraser, PhD, is a leading authority on relationship skills in professional and personal life and an international speaker. He is the author of “Relationship Mastery: A Business Professional’s Guide.” David has a track record of pioneering new approaches to old problems. He has delivered major projects for government and private sector clients in challenging situations and set up a number of entrepreneurial ventures. He is a business owner, and a Chartered Engineer with a First Class Honours degree and a PhD from Glasgow University and an MBA from Strathclyde University. He is a qualified commercial mediator and a Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) Trainer and has studied with leading proponents of these disciplines. David applies his unusual blend of expertise to supporting disparate groups working together in complex circumstances, including major collaborative projects and matters of national importance. In addition to his work on relationship management with corporate clients, David runs workshop and coaching programs on personal and relationship mastery for both organizations and individuals, focusing on the potential to leverage results. David also finds the approach set out in his books to be extremely helpful in his home and family environment. David lives with his wife and three children in Glasgow, Scotland and sails on the West Coast of Scotland when time permits. Buy the dead tree version! Kindle Version For more information and resources and to connect with David Fraser, please visit Shameless Ad for my book! Looking for a proect management reference to keep close at hand? Mastering Software Project Management: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques co-authored by Murali Chematuri and myself and published by J. Ross Publishing. We have received unsolicited reviews like the following: "This book will prove that software projects should not be a tedious process, neither for you or your team." Contact information for the Software Process and Measurement Cast Email: spamcastinfo@gmail.com Next! SPaMCAST 173, Agile in a waterfall business. Enough said! Direct download: SPaMCAST_172_-_Dr_David_Fraser_Relationship_Mastery_A_Business_Necessity.mp3 Category:Relationship Mastery -- posted at: 10:00 PM |
Sat, 4 February 2012
Please distribute the PDF version! For Immediate Release Avon Lake, OH – The Software Process and Measurement Podcast (SPaMCAST) is celebrating its 170th episode after five years of interviewing many of the leaders in the software development world. The anniversary edition of SPaMCAST features an interview with Hillel Glazer, speaker, process guru and author of High Performance Operations. SPaMCAST feature interviews have included: · Chris Hefley, Chief Executive Officer, Leankit Kanban, Bandit Software, LLC · Dean Leffingwell author of Scaling Software Agility and others · Peter Taylor author of many books including The Lazy Project Manager · Elizabeth Harrin author, award winning blog, The Girl’s Guide to Project Management · Tim Lister, co-author of Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies · David Anderson the author of Agile Management for Software Engineering · Kent Beck, pioneer in Agile Methods · Scott Ambler, though leader in Test Driven Development · Ivar Jacobson, developer of Use Cases · Grady Booch, discussing Life, the Universe and Development The Cast covers topics that deal with the challenges of how work is done in information technology organizations as they grow and evolve. The show combines commentaries, interviews and feedback to serve up ideas, opinions, advice and facts. In a nutshell, the Cast has provided and will continue to provide advice for and from practitioners, methodologists, pundits and consultants. The editor, Tom Cagley, is a leading consultant in software development process improvement, the Vice President of Consulting for the David Consulting Group, Past President of the International Function Point Users Group and co-author of Mastering Software Project Management. The Software Process and Measurement Cast can be found at www.spamcast.net. It is also available on all major podcast services including iTunes and the Zune Marketplace. All previous episodes are available download. The Cast currently enjoys 10,000 downloads a month, up 20% in the past year It is delivered as a free public service to the information technology community and has listeners across the globe. Contact: |
Sun, 29 January 2012
Welcome to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 171! The SPaMCAST 171 includes a double feature! Part One is Meta-Cast discussing where the Cast has been and where it is going. The short answer is 2012 is going to really COOL! Part Two is an entry in the Metrics Minute. We tackle Customer Satisfaction. Shameless Ad for my book! Mastering Software Project Management: Best Practices, Tools and Techniquesco-authored by Murali Chematuri and myself and published by J. Ross Publishing. We have received unsolicited reviews like the following: "This book will prove that software projects should not be a tedious process, neither for you or your team." Buy the book! Contact information for the Software Process and Measurement Cast Next! SPaMCAST 172 will my interview with Dr. David Fraser. We discussed his book Relationship Mastery, A Business Professional’s Guide. Can you answer the question why are relationships important in business? You will know the answer after the interview! Direct download: SPaMCAST_171_-_Meta-Cast_Metrics_Minute_Customer_Satisfaction.mp3 Category:Metrics Minute -- posted at: 10:34 PM |
Sun, 22 January 2012
Welcome to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 170! Happy fifth anniversary from Amsterdam! The SPaMCAST 170 features my interview Hillel Glazer. We discussed his book High Performance Operations: Leverage Compliance to Lower Costs, Increase Profits, and Gain Competitive Advantage and many other topics like the CMMI and Agile. Hillel Glazer is recognized as the world’s leading authority on introducing lean and agile concepts into the compliance-driven world. He’s helped companies of all sizes and industries around the world successfully streamline their operations, increase value, and expose and eliminate practices that prevent them from achieving their performance goals. And, he does so while simultaneously accounting for all the external compliance pressures on their operations. Hillel’s professional passion is to work with companies motivated to achieve world-class operations and excellence. His diverse experience base includes aerospace/defense and systems engineering, large and small consulting practices, Federal agencies, dot-com operations and financial, insurance, medical and transportation systems development and support. Having started in manufacturing where he learned the fundamentals of lean production, for more than the most recent decade, as a consultant, Hillel’s been successfully pioneering the introduction of lean philosophies, methods and techniques into businesses and industries otherwise believed to be either too chaotic or too highly restricted in freedom by their compliance and regulation requirements to be able to adopt high performance approaches. Hillel is an in-demand speaker, presenter, and facilitator. (See where he’ll show up next.) He is widely read, broadly published, and appears worldwide on the topics pertaining to operational excellence in compliance-driven industries. His work appears in many publications including periodicals and the texts, CMMI for Services, 2nd Edition, CMMI for Development, 3rd Edition, and Integrating CMMI and Agile Development. His Baltimore-based company, Entinex, has a global reach that focuses on generating powerful results for high performance operations among companies motivated to be lean, agile, and achieve world-class levels of operational excellence. He lives in the Baltimore suburbs with his fabulous wife and four amazing children. If you are going to buy Hillel's book and want to support the SPaMCAST please use the following link which uses the SPaMCAST's Amazon Associate account. Buy the book! Contact Data: Shameless Ad for my book! Mastering Software Project Management: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques co-authored by Murali Chematuri and myself and published by J. Ross Publishing. We have received unsolicited reviews like the following: "This book will prove that software projects should not be a tedious process, neither for you or your team." Buy the book! Have you bought your copy? Contact information for the Software Process and Measurement Cast Email: spamcastinfo@gmail.com Next! SPaMCAST 171 will feature a bit of meta-cast celebrating the Software Process and Measurement Casts fifth anniversary and an entry from the Metrics Minute on Customer Satisfaction! Direct download: SPaMCAST_170_-_Hillel_Glazer_High_Performance_Operations_CMMI_Agile.mp3 Category:High Performance Operations -- posted at: 11:55 PM |
Sun, 15 January 2012
Welcome to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 169! The Software Process and Measurement Cast 169 features the second part of my essay, The Case Against Multi-tasking. This installment is titled Serial Mono-tasking in Action. This installment will focus on what can be done to multitask less and serial mono-task more. Shameless Ad for my book! Mastering Software Project Management: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques co-authored by Murali Chematuri and myself and published by J. Ross Publishing. We have received unsolicited reviews like the following: "This book will prove that software projects should not be a tedious process, neither for you or your team." Have you bought your copy? Contact information for the Software Process and Measurement Cast Email: spamcastinfo@gmail.com Next The Software Process and Measurement Cast 170 will mark the Cast's Fifth Anniversary! We celebrate with my interview with Hillel Glazer. We discussed his new book High Performance Operations, process, agile, the CMMI and all sorts of great topics! Direct download: SPaMCAST_169_-_Serial_Mono-tasking_Book_Review_-_Strategic_Project_Portfolio_Management.mp3 Category:Multitasking -- posted at: 10:00 PM |
Sun, 8 January 2012
Welcome to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 168! The Software Process and Measurement Cast 168 features my interview with Bill Smith and his Twitter alterego @CMMIROX. We discussed CMMI training, marketing change and other topics that will give you a leg up on making 2012 a winner! Bill Smith is President and CEO of Leading Edge Process Consultants, an SEI Partner with offices in Virginia and New York. He was the SEI’s 2010 Outstanding Member Representative, and has been honored with an Outstanding Presentation award at the NDIA CMMI Technology Conference and User Group each of the past three years. As an SEI-Certified Introduction to CMMI Instructor, Bill teaches the CMMI publicly every six weeks at his training facility in Reston, Virginia. He has taught the Introduction to CMMI course to over 1100 students coast-to-coast – including onsite deliveries at Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, AT&T, the IRS, and FEMA. Bill served as consultant, appraiser, and trainer with the Systems and Software Consortium (SSCI) from 2002 through 2007. He has guided multiple organizations to various CMMI or SW-CMM maturity levels, led numerous appraisals, and chaired or served on a half dozen Engineering Process Groups. Bill’s career has included jobs as an artificial intelligence programmer with IBM and advanced systems engineer with EDS. Overall, he has 27 years of software/systems engineering experience in management and technical positions. Bill has an M.S. in Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh and a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University. Bill offers his CMMI perspectives regularly as CmmiRox on twitter and on his corporate Facebook page. He also maintains his own social network, CMMI Rocks!, to support students who’ve attended his CMMI classes. Bill’s non-professional passions include music, running, and the outdoors. Contact Information: Interested in becoming a radio star? Shameless Ad for my book! Mastering Software Project Management: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques co-authored by Murali Chematuri and myself and published by J. Ross Publishing. We have received unsolicited reviews like the following: "This book will prove that software projects should not be a tedious process, neither for you or your team." Have you bought your copy? Contact information for the Software Process and Measurement Cast Email: spamcastinfo@gmail.com Next The Software Process and Measurement Cast 169 will feature part two of my essay on multitasking. This part will focus on what can be done to multitask less and serial mono-task more. Direct download: SPaMCAST_168_-_Bill_Smith_CMMI_Training_Marketing_Change.mp3 Category:CMMI -- posted at: 10:00 PM |
Sun, 1 January 2012
Welcome to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 167! Happy News Years! To multitask or not to multitask, that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of mono-tasking or to take arms against a sea of trouble and by opposing do more...at least appear to do more. Is the discussion of mono-tasking versus multitasking a tempest in a teapot, a true productivity killer or perhaps are we really discussing how we segment work? Depending on how you define the word, I believe it is the later. The problem is that like so many other words we have conflated a number of concepts into a broader idea. Interested in becoming a radio star? Shameless Ad for my book! Mastering Software Project Management: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques co-authored by Murali Chematuri and myself and published by J. Ross Publishing. We have received unsolicited reviews like the following: "This book will prove that software projects should not be a tedious process, neither for you or your team." Have you bought your copy? Contact information for the Software Process and Measurement Cast Next The Software Process and Measurement Cast 168 will feature my interview with Bill Smith and his Twitter alterego @CMMIROX. We discussed CMMI training, marketing change and other topics that will enlighten 2012! Direct download: SPaMCAST_167_-_The_Case_Against_Multitasking.mp3 Category:Multitasking -- posted at: 10:00 PM |
Sun, 25 December 2011
Welcome to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 166! The interview in the SPaMCAST 166 is with Paul Byrnes. We discussed the changes to the SCAMPI 1.3 method of appriasing the CMMI and more! The interview is loaded with data for anyone that uses the CMMI! THis is Paul's third appearance on the SPaMCAST (a returning STAR). If you have not listened to Paul's first two interviews hear are the links to the SPaMCAST 63 and SPaMCAST 81. As an Air Force officer Paul was responsible for managing advanced software technology transition projects at Hanscom AFB, MA. These were typically joint government/industry funded projects aimed at significantly improving the efficiency of DoD software development processes and services. At the SEI, Paul was the SEI CMM® Based Appraisal (CBA) Project Leader. Responsible for developing all published versions of SCE and the initial CBA IPI method (V0.3). A principal developer of the CMM® Appraisal Framework (CAF). Developed, delivered, and managed teams delivering CMM based appraisal methods and training services. At ISD, as a founder, principal, Managing Director, and CTO, Paul was the principal architect of ISD’s Comprehensive Appraisal Method (CAM); a draft version was an input method to SCAMPISM V1.1. He was responsible for managing, leading development, and also delivering all standard ISD products for their appraisal, consulting, and training service lines. Paul is a currently a member of the SCAMPI LA BoK Advisory Board and a member of its High Maturity Working Group. He participated on the Enterprise SPICE Architecture Team and the SCAMPI V1.3 Upgrade Team. Paul was included in the 1995 Who’s Who in the East, the 1998 Who’s Who in Media and Communications, the 1999 Who’s Who in America, and the 2000 Who’s Who in the World. Contact information: Interested in becoming a radio star? If you are interested in reviewing tools or books? Drop me a note at spamcastinfo@gmail.com Shameless Ad for my book! Mastering Software Project Management: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques co-authored by Murali Chematuri and myself and published by J. Ross Publishing. We have received unsolicited reviews like the following: "This book will prove that software projects should not be a tedious process, neither for you or your team." Have you bought your copy? Contact information for the Software Process and Measurement Cast Email: spamcastinfo@gmail.com Next! SPaMCAST 165 will feature an essay from the Metrics Minute or a discusson of mono-tasking versus multi-tasking . . .either will be worth waiting for! |
Sun, 18 December 2011
Welcome to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 165! The SPaMCAST 165 features an essay that answers the questions, "so what exactly is IT-CMF?” and “why do we need another model?” The essay begins: On Thursday morning I checked into a testing center to test the knowledge and skills that are central to understanding and leveraging the IT Capability Maturity Framework (IT-CMF) and also to certify. When I completed the exam I tweeted my results to the world and got resounding response of . . .”so what exactly is IT-CMF?” and “why do we need another model?” Interested in becoming a radio star? If you are interested in reviewing tools or books? Drop me a note at spamcastinfo@gmail.com Shameless Ad for my book! Mastering Software Project Management: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques co-authored by Murali Chematuri and myself and published by J. Ross Publishing. We have received unsolicited reviews like the following: "This book will prove that software projects should not be a tedious process, neither for you or your team." Have you bought your copy? Contact information for the Software Process and Measurement Cast Next! SPaMCAST 166 features my interview with Paul Byrnes of ISD. Paul and I discussed the recent changes to the SCAMPI process for appraising the CMMI and potential changes coming in the future. One word - EXCITING. Direct download: SPaMCAST_165_-_IT-CMF_-_A_Framework_A_Certification_and_More.mp3 Category:IT-CMF -- posted at: 10:00 PM |
Sun, 11 December 2011
Welcome to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 164! The interview on the Software Process and Measurement Cast 164 is with Joseph Raynus. Joe and I discussed his bookImproving Business Process Performance: Gain Agility, Create Value, and Achieve Success and quantitative business process management. Joseph Raynus is the founder of ShareDynamics, Inc. a Business Process Management and Process Improvement consulting company in Lexington, Ma. He provides training and consulting services in the area of business performance management and quantification by helping his customers institute measurement frameworks and manage their Process Improvement/BPM initiatives at all levels of organization. Joseph provides education, training, mentoring and is a frequent speaker at a number of professional organizations and conferences that include IEEE, PMI, ASQ and SAP BPM. Joseph is also an Adjunct Professor at Northeastern University Graduate School of Engineering, where he teaches courses in Information Systems Planning and Business Process Engineering. His latest book “Improving Business Process Performance: Gain Agility, Create Value and Achieve Success” presents an approach to a workable process to help an organization maintain clarity of purpose, bridge the gap between the strategic and tactical views, and apply structure to how it monitors its progress. His first book "Process Improvement with CMM" is also available in Chinese and Japanese. Contact Data: Interested in sponsoring the SPaMCAST? If you are interested in being a sponsor please contact me at SPaMCASTinfo@gmail.com for a rate sheet or to discuss options. Interested in becoming a radio star? If you are interested in reviewing tools or books? Drop me a note at spamcastinfo@gmail.com Shameless Ad for my book! Mastering Software Project Management: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques co-authored by Murali Chematuri and myself and published by J. Ross Publishing. We have received unsolicited reviews like the following: "This book will prove that software projects should not be a tedious process, neither for you or your team." Have you bought your copy? Contact information for the Software Process and Measurement Cast Email: spamcastinfo@gmail.com Next! SPaMCAST 165 will feature an essay from the Metrics Minute or a discusson of mono-tasking versus multi-tasking . . .either will be worth waiting for! Direct download: SPaMCAST_164_-_Joseph_Raynus_Quantative_Business_Process_Management.mp3 Category:Business Process Management -- posted at: 10:00 PM |
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Software Process and Measurement Cast
Interviews, essays, facts and tips about process improvement and measurement in the Information Technology arena!
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