Welcome to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 72!

In the SPaMCAST 72 I interviewed Diana Larsen.  Diana and I discussed agile and retrospectives.  The interview was full of practical advice, philosophyphilopsphy, wit and wisdom.  

Diana Larsen sparks the creation of workplaces where productive teams display resilience in times of change and focus on frequent delivery of high value software customers want and use. Drawing on fifteen+ years of experience working with technical professionals, Diana takes a pragmatic approach to consulting with leaders and teams to promote work processes where innovation, inspiration, and imagination flourish.

Diana co-authored Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great! and writes articles and blog posts at http://www.futureworksconsulting.com/blog. She is a partner in FutureWorks Consulting, LLC, in Portland, Oregon.

Current chair of the Agile Alliance Board of Directors, Diana co- founded the “Agile Open Northwest” conference and the international “Retrospective Facilitators Gathering”.

Diana discovers solutions and possibilities where others find only barriers and obstacles.

Contact Data:
Website:  http://www.futureworksconsulting.com/
Website:  http://www.agilealliance.org
Twitter:   Dianaofportland

The essay in SPaMCAST 72 concludes my essay titled Traceability, A Radical Approach Based on User Involvement.  This is part seven which includes examples (mini-case studies) and a summary.  The entire document will be available via my blog and at the David Consulting Group website.  

I would also like to promote another podcast that I produce.   While a little off the IT track, Tales by Tom which are readings of my father's novels, novellas and short story collections is an engaging ang thought provoking podcast.  Visit Tales by Tom at www.talesbytom.com.

Conferences and Speaking Engagements in 2010 (To Date)

Are Your Project Stakeholders Satisfied
February 11, 2010
11:00 am - 12:30 pm Eastern Time
Measuring customer satisfaction is more than just asking if your clients got what they wanted. Customer satisfaction is a messy mix of expectations, experiences, and perceptions - with maybe a hint of functionality. In this webinar, Tom Cagley will outline one method for measuring this mixture and for identifying what really matters in customer satisfaction.
Learning Objectives:
•    How to define customer satisfaction
•    Strategies for identifying what really matters
•    A practical framework for measuring customer satisfaction
•    Not all attributes of customer satisfaction matter to the same level for all stakeholders

Register at http://solutions.compaid.com/forms/WebinarA20100211?ProcessType=PreReg


Quest Conference in Dallas April 21 - 23.  I will be talking on "Process Improvement in a Multi-Model World".  The conference includes two days of workshops.  The website to get more information is http://www.qaiquest.org/dallas/index.html

The next Software Process and Measurment Cast features an interview with David Bovis.  We discussed lean and the phycology of change.  This is a do not miss interview for anyone involved or impacted by change. . . .might mean everyone ought to hear this interview.

Show 54 features an interview with Esther Derby focused primarily on agile retrospective but we branched out to talk about agile management and many other topics.

Esther is one of the rare breed of consultant who blends the technical issues, and the managerial issues with the people issues. She is well known for her work in helping teams grow to new levels of productivity.

Management coaching, Scrum implementation, retrospectives, and project assessments are four of Esther’s key practices that serve as effective tools to start team transformation.  
Recognized as one of the world’s leaders in retrospective facilitation, she often receives requests to work with struggling teams. Esther also coaches technical people who are making the transition to management and is a Certified Scrum Master.

Esther can be contacted by email at derby@estherderby.com
Her website is www.estherderby.com

Links to her books are below:
Agile Retrospectives Making Teams Great    http://bit.ly/2lU8QT
Behind Closed Doors Management   http://bit.ly/h8LfD
Note that Esther co-authored “Behind Closed Doors Management” with Johanna Rothman in SPaMCAST 23  -- check it out at    http://bit.ly/8mol

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The essay is titled “Agile is  . . .”  I suggest that Agile is the combination of philosophies, methods and techniques.  What it is not is merely an outcome.  The text of the whole essay can be found at www.tcagley.wordpress.com.

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Are you going to the SEPG Conference in San Jose this year let me know and if not I would be interested in why (assuming you were interested in going to begin with).

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The next Software Process and Measurement Cast will feature an interview Bill Phifer.  We discussed metrics in outsourcing.    If you have anything to do with sourcing work I think you will get lot out of this interview.

Lisa Crispin is an agile testing coach and practitioner. She is the co-author, with Janet Gregory, of Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams (Addison-Wesley, 2009). She specializes in showing testers and agile teams how testers can add value and how to guide development with business-facing tests. Her mission is to bring agile joy to the software testing world and testing joy to the agile development world. Lisa joined her first agile team in 2000, having enjoyed many years working as a programmer, analyst, tester, and QA director. Since 2003, she's been a tester on a Scrum/XP team at ePlan Services, Inc. She frequently leads tutorials and workshops on agile testing at conferences in North America and Europe. Lisa regularly contributes articles about agile testing to publications such as Better Software magazine, IEEE Software, and Methods and Tools. Lisa also co-authored Testing Extreme Programming (Boston: Addison-Wesley, 2002) with Tip House.
For more about Lisa"s work, visit www.lisacrispin.com.

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The essay is titled "A Really Simple Checklist for Change Readiness Assessment” Part 2.  Planning for change is no very different from planning a vacation.  The Checklist will remind you of the big things to remember that sometimes get forgotten when dealing with the details of making change happen.  Remember that part one was originally uploaded in SPaMCAST 51.  The text of the whole essay can be found at www.tcagley.wordpress.com.

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The next Software Process and Measurement Cast will feature an interview with Capers Jones discussing a wide range of software measurement topics.  The interview with Capers was an exciting and I think you will find the interview an exciting listen.  Listen with a friend!

One more item . . .my father has begun to podcast his fiction at www.talesbytom.com.  Yours truly is doing the production.  Feel free to check it out and give him feedback.

Show fifty features my interview with David J Anderson.  We discussed agile management and many other topics. The interview was fascinating!  I have decided to push it out into the feed as one whole file rather than breaking due to ensure the continuity of the conversation (no real break points).

David J. Anderson leads a management consulting firm focused on improving performance of technology companies. He has many years management experience leading teams on agile software development projects. David was a founder of the agile movement through his involvement in the creation of Feature Driven Development. His first book, Agile Management for Software Engineering - Applying the Theory of Constraints for Business Results, published in 2003 by Prentice Hall, introduced many ideas from Lean and Theory of Constraints in to software engineering. He was also a founder of the APLN, a non-profit dedicated to improving management and leadership in technology companies. Recently David has been focusing his attention on business agility and enterprise scale agile software transitions through a synergy of the CMMI model for organizational maturity with Agile and Lean methods.

Note that the Lean Kanban2009 Conference noted in the interview has been rescheduled to May 6 – 8.  Information can be found at  http://www.leankanbanconference.com/

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Email:  fddmanager@yahoo.com

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There is no essay on this show.  I try to keep the length of the show around 30 minutes and the essay would have pushed the 45 minute boundary.  Check out the text of the current essay at www.tcagley.wordpress.com. 

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The next Software Process and Measurement Cast will feature an interview with Tim Lister.  Tim is one the great thinkers in the IT field.  We discussed the book "Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies” which was co-authored with the five other principals of the Atlantic Systems Guild.  The ideas and topics covered in the book and interview have already refined my thoughts on a number of topics.  I expect that you will have the same experience this is not an interview to miss.

Show Forty Eight concludes a two part interview with Ellen Gottesdiener on agile requirements, facilitation and other topics. Go back to Cast 46 if you have not listened to Part One.  

Principal Consultant of EBG Consulting, Ellen Gottesdiener helps business and technical teams get product requirements right so their projects start smart and deliver the right product at the right time. An agile coach and trainer with a passion about agile requirements, she works with large, complex products and helps teams elicit just enough requirements to achieve iteration and product goals. Ellen is the author of Requirements by Collaboration: Workshops for Defining Needs and The Software Requirements Memory Jogger. Ellen writes articles, speaks, advises at industry conferences, and provides training seminars and mentoring to both traditional and agile clients. Contact her at www.ebgconsulting.com

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Email:  ellen@ebgconsulting.com

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We have a guest essay from Pat Ferdinani in this cast titled "Do You Write?”  The essay challenges you to express your ideas and to get involved.  Covey might say act or be acted upon in words,  grow and improve your life which will grow and improve others around you.

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The next Software Process and Measurement Cast will feature the second part of my two part interview with Robin Goldsmith on requirements and testing.  Requirements have been a vexing problem for Information Technology since dirt was young.  Can you afford to miss Robin"s exposition on REAL requirements?

Show Forty Six begins another two part interview with Ellen Gottesdiener on agile requirements, facilitation and other topics.  Ellen is the principle consultant and founder of EBG Consulting, an author, a public speaker and all around pundit.  Part two will be included in SPaMCAST 48.    

Ellen is the Principal Consultant of EBG Consulting, Ellen and EBG help business and technical teams get product requirements right so their projects start smart and deliver the right product at the right time. She is an agile coach and trainer with a passion about agile requirements, she works with large, complex products and helps teams elicit just enough requirements to achieve iteration and product goals. Ellen is the author of Requirements by Collaboration: Workshops for Defining Needs and The Software Requirements Memory Jogger. Ellen writes articles, speaks, advises at industry conferences, and provides training seminars and mentoring to both traditional and agile clients.

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The essay is titled "Does the End Justify the Means.”  The essay wrestles with thoughts on whether you should use any means possible to promote our ideas or process improvements.  If you do not want of listen, my opinion is that the journey is important.

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The next Software Process and Measurement Cast will feature an interview with Robin Goldsmith on requirements and testing.  Robin"s interview is another two parter!    Requirements have been a vexing problem for Information Technology since dirt was young.  Can you afford to miss Robin's exposition on REAL requirements?

The interview in the Software Process and Measurement Cast 45 features part two of the interview with Mike Cohn.  Mike is the man when it come to Story Points and agile estimation.    

Mike Cohn is the founder of Mountain Goat Software, a process and project management consultancy and training firm. He is the author of Agile Estimating and Planning and User Stories Applied for Agile Software Development, as well as books on Java and C++ programming. With more than 20 years of experience, Mike has previously been a technology executive in companies of various sizes, from startup to Fortune 40. A frequent magazine contributor and conference speaker, Mike is a founding member of the Scrum Alliance and the Agile Alliance. He can be reached at mike@mountaingoatsoftware.com.

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We have a guest essay on SPaMCAST 45.  The essay is an open letter from Gary Cone to Senators Obama and McCain on process improvement.  Guest essay reflects the opinions of Gary Cone and may or may not reflect the opinion of SPaMCAST or its editor.  Please feel free to respond to Gary at Gary.Cone@gpsqtc.com  or (586)412-9609.  In my opinion process improvement is good politics regardless of political affiliation or lack thereof.

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The next Software Process and Measurement Cast will feature an interview with Ellen Gottesdiener.  Can you say agile requirements?

The interview in the Software Process and Measurement Cast 43 features the first part of a two part interview the Mike Cohn. Mike is the man when it comes to Story Points and agile estimation. Part two will be included in SPaMCAST 45.    

Mike Cohn is the founder of Mountain Goat Software, a process and project management consultancy and training firm. He is the author of Agile Estimating and Planning and User Stories Applied for Agile Software Development, as well as books on Java and C++ programming. With more than 20 years of experience, Mike has previously been a technology executive in companies of various sizes, from startup to Fortune 40. A frequent magazine contributor and conference speaker, Mike is a founding member of the Scrum Alliance and the Agile Alliance. He can be reached at mike@mountaingoatsoftware.com.

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The essay is titled “Who’s Career Is It Anyway?”  The essay challenges you to think of yourself as your own brand and to take control of maintaining your brand and career.

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The essay for the software process and measurement cast 43 is titled “Compound the Interest in Process Improvement”. I am back on the soapbox touting the relationship between successful process improvement and marketing.

Future Events and the next Cast. . .

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.

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The next Software Process and Measurement Cast will feature an interview with Manfred Bundschuh. Manfred and Carol Dekkers have just published their book “The IT Measurement Compendium”. One of the topics we explored was the link between sociology and measurement. If you measure don’t be caught without your ruler for this interview.

Show Forty One features an interview with Ken Schwaber.  We discussed SCRUM and organizational change.  OK, maybe discussion is a weak term, I asked questions and gathered wisdom from the SCRUM master.  If you are interested in SCRUM specifically and agile in general this is a must listen important interview. 

Ken Schwaber co-developed the Scrum process with Jeff Sutherland in the early 1990s to help organizations struggling with complex development projects. One of the signatories to the Agile Manifesto in 2001, he subsequently founded the AgileAlliance, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the creation of Agile software. He then founded the ScrumAlliance, a nonprofit organization dedicated to expanding the understanding of Scrum.

A 30-year veteran of the software development industry (from bottle washer to boss), he has written three books about Scrum: Agile Software Development with Scrum, Agile Project Management with Scrum, and The Enterprise and Scrum.

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Web Site:  http://www.controlchaos.com/
Email:  ken.schwaber@verizon.net

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The essay for this cast is titled, “Is Project Management Changing?”  The essay discusses how texting and instant messaging are reshaping the project environment.  The reshaping is affecting the balance between detailed planning and instant coordination.

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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.


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The next Software Process and Measurement Cast will feature an interview with Dr. Magdy Hanna.  We discussed the International Software Process Improvement Certification the new certification for SPI personnel specifically and certifications in general.  If you are in the SPI field or hire people in the SPI field this one is a must.

Show 37 is an interview with Kenji Hiranabe discussing using kanban in software development.   According to WIKIPEDIA, “Kanban is a signaling system to trigger action which in Toyota Production System leverages physical cards as the signal”.  In other words the signal is used to indicate when new tasks should start, and by inference, the status of current work.  Kenji does a great job at explaining how the kanban can be used in system development. 

 

Kenji Hiranabe, CEO of Change Vision, Inc (http://www.change-vision.com/index_en.html).  Change Vision develops tools to help deliver effective projects.  He is a Japanese software development consultant and book translator of Extreme Programming Installed, Lean Software Development, Agile Project Management, and other Agile books. He's also an author of JUDE, a UML and MindMap editor software and TRICHORD, a kanban based agile project management tool.  He specializes in agile development, object-oriented software construction and project facilitation. 

 

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The essay for this cast is titled “Making Tangible The Intangible”.  The essay for this cast reflects concepts espoused by Phil Armour in SPaMCAST 36 and Kenji Hiranabe in SPaMCAST 37 (the current cast for those of you reading this on my blog).  The confluence of concepts that so moved me combines Kenji’s comments on the intangibility of both software and the processes and Phil’s on software as a container for knowledge. 

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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 57^th 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.

 

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On the next SPaMCAST we will feature an interview with Ed Yourdon discussing social media in the development process.  Talking to Ed was jam packed with information on using social media to foster collaboration.  If you don't know about how to use social media, its time to find out!

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.

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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/

 

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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 . . .

 

 

Software Process and Measurement
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Show 18 features an interview with Kent Beck discussing transparency.  Kent Beck is the Founder and Director of Three Rivers Institute (TRI). His career has combined the practice of software development with reflection, innovation, and communication. His contributions to software development include patterns for software, the rediscovery of test-first programming, the xUnit family of developer testing tools, and Extreme Programming. He currently divides his time between writing, programming, and coaching. Beck is the author/co-author of Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change 2nd Edition, Contributing to Eclipse, Test-Driven Development: By Example, Planning Extreme Programming, The Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns, and the JUnit Pocket Guide.  He received his B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Oregon.  

The Three Rivers Institute can be found at www.threeriversinstitute.org/

The essay in this cast is three mini-segments of a new thread titled “Life Lessons in Measurement and Process Improvement."  The text of this commentary can be found at www.tcagley.wordpress.com.  Comments and corrections are welcome.
 

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On October 11 I will be presenting a DCG / CAI Webinar titled Benchmarking Performance for the Bottom Line - October 11th, 2007, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EST go to www.davidconsultingroup.com website to register.
 

On Tuesday November 13th I am presenting Traceability: A Proposal for a Scalable Approach, Agile To Formal at the Fourth Annual International Conference on Software Process Improvement in Orlando.    Information can be found at www.icspi.com.  On November 16th I will be delivering a tutorial titled “Implementing an Effective Measurement Program."  Spamcast listeners should let me know if you are coming and we can schedule a meet up.

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The next Software Process and Measurement Cast will feature an interview Dave Garmus covering IFPUG Function Points, if you are interested in functional measurement this is a must cast. 

SPaMCAST Seven!

Show Seven features an interview with Kenji Hiranabe on using mind mapping in agile projects.  Mind Mapping is a powerful technique to order information and concentrate communication.  The interview with Mr. Hiranabe includes a large number of practical applications of the method to agile and plan based projects. 

Kenji Hiranabe, CEO of Change Vision, Inc (http://www.change-vision.com/index_en.html).  Change Vision develops tools to help deliver effective projects.  He is a Japanese software development consultant and book translator of Extreme Programming Installed, Lean Software Development, Agile Project Management, and other Agile books. He's also an author of JUDE, a UML and MindMap editor software and TRICHORD, an agile project management tool. You can read his blog at http://jude-users.com/en/modules/weblog/index.php?user_id=5.He specializes in agile development, object-oriented software construction and project facilitation. 

The essay for this cast is titled, Why are requirements so hard to get right? Part 1.   The essay focuses on the people factors affecting the requirements process.  The people factors typically are the most volatile and a seemingly least controllable of the people, process and environment variables within the requirements process.  Process,  and environment will be discussed in subsequent essays.  

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Future Events: 

On June 21 at 3 PM  I will  be presenting "When Good Numbers Go Bad" at Better Software 2007 in Los Vegas.  The conference and workshops run from Monday June 18 though Thursday June 21 at the Venetian in Las Vegas.  Information is available at http://www.sqe.com/bettersoftwareconf/  If you are attending let me know.  

Next Software Process and Measurement Cast: 

The next Software Process and Measurement Cast features an important interview with Stephen Finegold of SFT Consulting, LLC.  The interview will cover the topic of build management.  The essay will be on the first of the deadly sins of metrics.