Software Process and Measurement Cast

Show 60 is the interview I had with Medha Umarji discussing her research on Metrics Acceptance Model. If you are involved with software measurement programs this is important stuff! I know I have already begun using some of the concepts. I am doing this as one large interview rather than in two parts. I would like your input on this format.Medha Umarji is currently a PhD candidate at the Department of Information Systems at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Her focus is on the human aspects of software engineering, and she has had the opportunity to observe, survey and interview developers as they searched for source code, or communicated with their remote teams, or voiced their opinions about organizational initiatives. As she makes plans to graduate this summer, she is motivated by the idea of making a difference in the life of people in the trenches. During the course of her career she has worked at prestigious firms like Microsoft Research, ABB Corporate Research, and SuccessFactors Inc.Her other research interests are in studying how distributed organizations seek information and share knowledge, how domain-specific communities of practice interact and learn, and how developers leverage documentation and human sources of information in their programming tasks. Medha has published her research at several highly reputed conferences such as the International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, the Software Engineering Process Group Conference, and the International Conference on Open Source Software and Systems. Contact InformationEmail: [email protected]: http://metricsacceptance.netThe essay is titled "Involvement versus Focus". I discussed the fact focus is important but not sufficient to affect change in todays IT environment.Join the SPaMCAST's community by joining the SPaMCAST Facebook page and get involved!!!! http://tinyurl.com/62z5elThere are a number of ways to share your thoughts with SPaMCAST: • Email SPaMCAST at [email protected]• Voice messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111• Twitter – www.twitter.com/tcagley• BLOG – www.tcagley.wordpress.com• FACEBOOK!!!! Software Process and Measurement http://tinyurl.com/62z5elNext Software Process and Measurement Cast: The next Software Process and Measurement Cast will complete the interview I had with Phil Stubbington on how to help fix troubled projects. If you are project manager this one ought to be mandatory!

Show 59 begins a two part interview with Phil Stubbington. We discussed how to fix troubled projects. The interview chocked full of useful ideas for dealing with issues that if not taken care of that could be career limiting.Phil is a 42 year old highly reliable and trustworthy PROGRAMME DIRECTOR / MANAGER with an exceptional delivery track record. His most recent experience gained at DHL, EXEL, DELL, ORANGE BUSINESS SERVICES and RANK XEROX.Phil is very much a self starter, he is a constant improver with a strong client/customer centred approach who over delivers to measurably world class performance levels.He excels as a troubleshooter, he is a charismatic and motivational leader with great communication skills, is flexible, very approachable and says it "as it is". Equally comfortable and successful dealing with clients and team members at all levels including CxOs.Contact information:Email: [email protected]: http://www.twygrove.net/Tell a friend about the Software Process and Measurement Cast and show them how to subscribe. Let me know and I will acknowledge you on the next show! The essay is titled "Models, Models Everywhere". The proliferation of models, tools and frameworks leaves me asking the question what is the goal you are attempting to achieve with your particular witches brew or models you are using? If you don't know, you should.Join the SPaMCAST's community by joining the SPaMCAST Facebook page and get involved!!!! http://tinyurl.com/62z5elThere are a number of ways to share your thoughts with SPaMCAST: • Email SPaMCAST at [email protected]• Voice messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111• Twitter – www.twitter.com/tcagley• BLOG – www.tcagley.wordpress.com• FACEBOOK!!!! Software Process and Measurement http://tinyurl.com/62z5elNext Software Process and Measurement Cast: The next Software Process and Measurement Cast will begin an interview with Medha Umarji. We discussed her work on gauging metrics acceptance using a Metrics Acceptance Model she developed. Medha is a PhD candidate in the Dept. of Information Systems at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Show 58 features an interview with Thomas "cmdln" Gideon. To paraphrase the walrus from Lewis Carrol's Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There 'it was time to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings." It was a wonderful interview with the promise of more.Thomas Gideon, also known by his nickname, "cmdln" has been programming professionally for over a decade and hacking around with computers of many varieties for most of his life. I would suggest that not only is cmdln a technologist but a philosopher as he has meta-interests beyond just the technology itself.These include the history of computing and hacker culture. Programming requires a very particular way of seeing problems and solutions. Secondly is an interest in how computing technology is actually changing our society, for good or ill. He suggests that computer technology is definitely changing the way we do the things we already do while enabling wholly new things. Cmdln blogs his thoughts and findings at the site, "The Command Line." He also has a regular podcast discussing not only these issues, but episodes and aspects of the practice and profession of programming. And I quote "Not to mention any other stories or ideas related to technology that I find equally fascinating."Contact information:Email: feedback [at] thecommandline [dot] netWebsite: http://thecommandline.netTell a friend about the Software Process and Measurement Cast and show them how to subscribe. Let me know and I will acknowledge you on the next show! The essay is short (12 words) and talks about relevance and irrelevance. Here too more promised in the futureJoin the SPaMCAST's community by joining the SPaMCAST Facebook page and get involved!!!! http://tinyurl.com/62z5elThere are a number of ways to share your thoughts with SPaMCAST: • Email SPaMCAST at [email protected]• Voice messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111• Twitter – www.twitter.com/tcagley• BLOG – www.tcagley.wordpress.com• FACEBOOK!!!! Software Process and Measurement http://tinyurl.com/62z5elNext Software Process and Measurement Cast: The next Software Process and Measurement Cast will feature an interview Phil Stubbington. We talked about fixing trobuled projects. The tactics Phil suggests are useful even if you never have a trouble project on your hands.

Show 57 features an interview with Joe Schofield. We discussed the Function Points and Lines of Code and other topics. Size is an important attribute for managing software projects. How you measure counts!Joe has been active in the application of emerging technology for business and engineering solutions at Sandia National Labs since receiving his MS/MIS from the University of Arizona in 1980. As a member of the technical staff, he has been involved in the specification, selection, and application of software methodologies; served on a corporate-wide software quality improvement team, and facilitated teams in their quest for new business processes and customer-driven software. Since 1990, Joe has developed and taught IS courses in the MBA program at the College of Santa Fe. In 1990 he received his CQA accreditation, therafter his CFPS and CSMS. After speaking at USE, SHARE, GUIDE, and DOE-sponsored conferences, Joe delivered a keynote address at the Structured Development Forum in San Francisco in 1988. Subsequently he spoke on CASE at the National Conference on Information Systems Quality Assurance, and at CASEWorld in Los Angeles. Articles on CASE were then published by the Journal of Quality Data Processing and System Builder including "Considering CASE: Write the Fine Print." The publishers of System Development approached Joe to author an article for them; "CASE Users Bill of Rights" resulted. This effort was followed with three more thus far: "CASE: Not a Joke, Now a Threat", "The Next Silver Bullet" in 1995 and then "The Year 2000 - Finally a Reality Check" which was one of the first articles to downplay the hysteria on Y2K and warn of the impending consulting infestation. More recently his articles (4) have been published in CrossTalk, journal of software engineering, and cited by the NIST. Joe frequently presents at the annual IFPUG, now ISMA conferences, and SPIN. In 2007, he was elected to the IFPUG Board of Directors. Contact information:Email: [email protected]: http://joescho.home.comcast.net/~joescho/3/j/mybio.htmTell a friend about the Software Process and Measurement Cast and show them how to subscribe. Let me know and I will acknowledge you on the next show! The essay is titled "Multitasking Yourself Away From Efficiency". Efficiency is an important topic in most IT organizations and continues to become more important to help yourself and your organization. Multitasking is not the way to get there.Join the SPaMCAST's community by joining the SPaMCAST Facebook page and get involved!!!! http://tinyurl.com/62z5elThere are a number of ways to share your thoughts with SPaMCAST: • Email SPaMCAST at [email protected]• Voice messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111• Twitter – www.twitter.com/tcagley• BLOG – www.tcagley.wordpress.com• FACEBOOK!!!! Software Process and Measurement http://tinyurl.com/62z5elNext Software Process and Measurement Cast: The next Software Process and Measurement Cast will feature an interview Thomas "Command Line" Gideon. We talked about his inner chapters, philosophy and other interesting things!

Show 56 features an interview with Bill Phifer of EDS, an HP Company. We discussed the importance of measurement and metrics in sourcing arrangements.Bill Phifer is a Fellow at EDS, an HP Company, with responsibility for enterprise strategies related to quality standards and models for the Global Quality and Service Excellence group. He is a Software Engineering Institute (SEI) authorized Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Lead Appraiser with over 33 years in IT including 16 years in software process implementation and improvement, measurement, and project management. Bill is also a Lead Evaluator for Carnegie Mellon University's eSourcing Capability Model for Service Providers (eSCM-SP) with an interest in sourcing best practices. This includes a focus on game theory and balancing the needs of customers and service providers with relationship management. He is a regular presenter at IT industry conferences and seminars such as SEI's SEPG, itSMF USA Fusion, and IEEE. Bill is currently concentrating on end-to-end IT lifecycle process integration between applications and infrastructure using multiple models and standards such as CMMI, ITIL, eSCM, ISO 9000, ISO 27001 and CObIT. Along with this, he is researching approaches and methods for multi-model diagnostics and appraisals.Contact information:Email: [email protected]: (610) 232-5203Tell a friend about the Software Process and Measurement Cast and show them how to subscribe. Let me know and I will acknowledge you on the next show! The essay is titled "Interested or Interesting?" I recently heard the suggestion that it was more important to focus on being interested rather than being interesting in the essay we explore why.Join the SPaMCAST's community by joining the SPaMCAST Facebook page and get involved!!!! http://tinyurl.com/62z5elThere are a number of ways to share your thoughts with SPaMCAST: • Email SPaMCAST at [email protected]• Voice messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111• Twitter – www.twitter.com/tcagley• BLOG – www.tcagley.wordpress.com• FACEBOOK!!!! Software Process and Measurement http://tinyurl.com/62z5elNext Software Process and Measurement Cast: The next Software Process and Measurement Cast will feature an interview Joe Schofield. We discussed software sizing. Size and how you get to size really does matter.

Show 55 features an interview with Judy Bond focused on how people's personality can affect all of your professional relationships. Almost all work boils down to people and how you relate to others therefore getting better at it is important.Judy Bond is founder and President of Bond Team, Inc., a speaking and training company affiliated with Personality Insights, Atlanta, Georgia. Judy has been presenting business seminars and workshops for over ten years. Judy's business background includes senior level management experience in information technology management for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City.Judy has a bachelor's degree from Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas, and an MBA from DeVry University, Keller Graduate School of Management. Judy's commitment is to effectively communicate management and leadership techniques using personality resources.Judy can be contacted at: [email protected](816) 536-8839Join the SPaMCAST's community by joining the SPaMCAST Facebook page and get involved!!!! http://tinyurl.com/62z5elThe essay is a metacast on the health of the Software Process and Measurement Cast. In a nutshell it is good. The text of the whole essay can be found at www.tcagley.wordpress.com.There are a number of ways to share your thoughts with SPaMCAST: • Email SPaMCAST at [email protected]• Voice messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111• Twitter – www.twitter.com/tcagley• BLOG – www.tcagley.wordpress.com• FACEBOOK!!!! Software Process and Measurement http://tinyurl.com/62z5elNext Software Process and Measurement Cast: The next Software Process and Measurement Cast will feature an interview Bill Phifer. We discussed metrics in outsourcing. I redid this interview to improve the overall sound quality. Great interview both times. As I mentioned in SPaMCAST 52 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 55 features an interview with Judy Bond focused on how people's personality can affect all of your professional relationships. Almost all work boils down to people and how you relate to others therefore getting better at it is important.

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 [email protected] website is www.estherderby.comLinks to her books are below:Agile Retrospectives Making Teams Great http://bit.ly/2lU8QTBehind Closed Doors Management http://bit.ly/h8LfDNote that Esther co-authored "Behind Closed Doors Management" with Johanna Rothman in SPaMCAST 23 -- check it out at http://bit.ly/8molJoin the SPaMCAST's community by joining the SPaMCAST Facebook page and get involved!!!! http://bit.ly/18j52EThe 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.There are a number of ways to share your thoughts with SPaMCAST: • Email SPaMCAST at [email protected]• Voice messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111• Twitter – www.twitter.com/tcagley• BLOG – www.tcagley.wordpress.com• FACEBOOK!!!! Software Process and Measurement http://bit.ly/18j52EAre 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).Next Software Process and Measurement Cast: 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.

Show 53 is an interview with Capers Jones discussing software measurement. As with any conversation with Capers we explored a wide range of topics in the software development world. As usual, Capers was his provocative self! Capers biography is long and storied. Let it be said that Capers is a serial author (he currently working on book 16). Capers founded Software Process Research. He is a public speaker, pundit, guru, and deep thinker. Capers can be contacted at [email protected] Join the SPaMCAST's community by joining the SPaMCAST Facebook page and get involved!!!! http://tinyurl.com/62z5el The essay is titled "The State of How". Living exclusively in the day-to-day world is the enemy of vision and without vision, you are bound for a near-death experience. The text of the whole essay can be found at www.tcagley.wordpress.com. There are a number of ways to share your thoughts with SPaMCAST: • Email SPaMCAST at [email protected] • Voice messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111 • Twitter – www.twitter.com/tcagley • BLOG – www.tcagley.wordpress.com • FACEBOOK!!!! Software Process and Measurement http://tinyurl.com/62z5el Next Software Process and Measurement Cast: The next Software Process and Measurement Cast will feature an interview Esther Derby focused primarily on agile retrospective but we branched out to talk about agile management. As I mentioned in SPaMCAST 52 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

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.Join the SPaMCAST's community by joining the SPaMCAST Facebook page and get involved!!!! http://tinyurl.com/62z5elThe 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.There are a number of ways to share your thoughts with SPaMCAST: • Email SPaMCAST at [email protected]• Voice messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111• Twitter - www.twitter.com/tcagley• BLOG – www.tcagley.wordpress.com• FACEBOOK!!!! Software Process and Measurement http://tinyurl.com/62z5elNext Software Process and Measurement Cast: 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 one is an interview with Tim Lister discussing his new book," Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies". The interview discussed the impact of specific patterns and habits on how IT organizations work.***NEWS ***Adrenaline Junkies is one of 5 finalists for general computing book of the year.Tim Lister is a software consultant at the Atlantic Systems Guild, Inc., based in the New York office. He divides his time between consulting, teaching, and writing. Tim is a co-author with his Guild partners of Adrenalin Junkies and Template Zombies: Understanding Patterns of Project Behavior, (Dorset House, 2008 http://www.dorsethouse.com/books/ajtz.html), He, is also co-author with Tom DeMarco of Waltzing With Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects (Dorset House, 2003) that won Software Development magazine's Jolt Award as General Computing Book of the Year for 2003-2004. Tim and Tom are also co-authors of Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, (Dorset House, 1999) now available in 14 languages.Tim is currently a member of the Cutter IT Trends Council. He is a member of the I.E.E.E. and the A.C.M. He is in his 23rd year as a panelist for the American Arbitration Association, arbitrating disputes involving software and software services.Contact information: Web Site: http://www.systemsguild.com/Email: [email protected] out SPaMCAST's Facebook page and get involved!!!! http://tinyurl.com/62z5elThe essay is titled "A Really Simple Checklist for Change Readiness Assessment" Part 1. The essay reminds us of the big things that sometimes get forgotten when dealing with the minutia of getting a change project off the ground. Check out the text of the current essay at www.tcagley.wordpress.com. I should be back with an essay next show.There are a number of ways to share your thoughts with SPaMCAST: • Email SPaMCAST at [email protected]• Voice messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111• Twitter – www.twitter.com/tcagley• BLOG – www.tcagley.wordpress.com• FACEBOOK!!!! Software Process and Measurement http://tinyurl.com/62z5elNext Software Process and Measurement Cast: The next Software Process and Measurement Cast will feature an interview with Lisa Crispin discussing agile testing. Lisa's most recent book is "Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams." The book was coauthored with Janet Gregory. Testing and agile are highly inter-related although sometimes understanding how all the parts fit together isn't obvious. Lisa makes agile testing very clear in her interview. Do not miss the interview.The interview on the Software Process and Measurement Cast 51 is with Tim Lister. We discussed Tim's new book "Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies".

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/Contact information: Web Site: http://www.agilemanagement.netEmail: [email protected] out SPaMCAST's Facebook page and get involved!!!! http://tinyurl.com/62z5elThere 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. There are a number of ways to share your thoughts with SPaMCAST: • Email SPaMCAST at [email protected]• Voice messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111• Twitter – www.twitter.com/tcagley• BLOG – www.tcagley.wordpress.com• FACEBOOK!!!! Software Process and Measurement http://tinyurl.com/62z5elNext Software Process and Measurement Cast: 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 Nine concludes a two part interview with Robin Goldsmith on requirements. If you have not already done so, please go back to show 47 to listen to the first half of the interview. Requirements are one of those foundational components that can make or break a project as it gets started. I believe that Robin's ideas and insights are thought provoking and that you will find them useful. Robin is the president of Go Pro Management. Go Pro Management, Inc. is a consultancy that works directly with and trains professionals in business engineering, requirements analysis, software acquisition, project management, quality and testing. Mr Goldsmith was previously a developer, systems programmer/DBA/QA, and project leader with the City of Cleveland, leading financial institutions, and a "Big 4" consulting firm. He holds degrees from Kenyon College, A.B.; Pennsylvania State University, M.S. in Psychology; Suffolk University, J.D.; Boston University, LL.M. in Tax Law. Robin is the author of the Artech House book, Discovering REAL Business Requirements for Software Project Success, and numerous articles in prominent periodicals, and frequent featured speaker at leading professional conferences.Contact information: Web Site: http://www.gopromanagement.comEmail: [email protected]: (781) 444-5753Check out SPaMCAST"s Facebook page and get involved!!!! http://tinyurl.com/62z5elThe essay is titled "A Game Plan For 2009". The essay looks to 2009 or any moment where a line can be drawn as time to celebrate change and decide to enrich the world around you (as well re-invigorating your own brand).There are a number of ways to share your thoughts with SPaMCAST: • Email SPaMCAST at [email protected]• Voice messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111• Twitter - www.twitter.com/tcagley• BLOG – www.tcagley.wordpress.com• FACEBOOK!!!! Software Process and Measurement http://tinyurl.com/62z5elNext Software Process and Measurement Cast: The next Software Process and Measurement Cast will feature an David Andersen discussing organizational culture and embracing agile, kanban and kaizen requirements and testing. This interview covered a lot of ground and is very germane to the world we find ourselves in today. Very very powerful, do not miss it.

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.comContact information: Web Site: http://www.ebgconsulting.com/Email: [email protected] out SPaMCAST's Facebook page and get involved!!!! http://tinyurl.com/62z5elWe 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.There are a number of ways to share your thoughts with SPaMCAST: • Email SPaMCAST at [email protected]• Voice messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111• Twitter - www.twitter.com/tcagley• BLOG – www.tcagley.wordpress.com• FACEBOOK!!!! Software Process and Measurement http://tinyurl.com/62z5elNext Software Process and Measurement Cast: 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 Seven begins another two part interview this one with Robin Goldsmith on REAL requirements. Requirements have been a vexing problem for Information Technology since dirt was young. Robin presents a structure for addressing the issue. Part two will be included in SPaMCAST 49. Robin is the president of Go Pro Management. Go Pro Management, Inc. is a consultancy that works directly with and trains professionals in business engineering, requirements analysis, software acquisition, project management, quality and testing. Mr Goldsmith was previously a developer, systems programmer/DBA/QA, and project leader with the City of Cleveland, leading financial institutions, and a "Big 4" consulting firm. He holds degrees from Kenyon College, A.B.; Pennsylvania State University, M.S. in Psychology; Suffolk University, J.D.; Boston University, LL.M. in Tax Law. Robin is the author of the Artech House book, Discovering REAL Business Requirements for Software Project Success, and numerous articles in prominent periodicals, and frequent featured speaker at leading professional conferences.Contact information: Web Site: http://www.gopromanagement.comEmail: [email protected]: (781) 444-5753Check out SPaMCAST's Facebook page and get involved!!!! http://tinyurl.com/62z5elThe 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.There are a number of ways to share your thoughts with SPaMCAST: • Email SPaMCAST at [email protected]• Voice messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111• Twitter - www.twitter.com/tcagley• BLOG – www.tcagley.wordpress.com• FACEBOOK!!!! Software Process and Measurement http://tinyurl.com/62z5elNext Software Process and Measurement Cast: The next Software Process and Measurement Cast will feature Part Two of the interview with Ellen Gottesdiener on agile requirements, facilitation and other topics! Part One in SPaMCAST 46 was great, filled with new ideas on requirements and I think 48 will even be more important.

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.Contact information: Web Site: http://www.ebgconsulting.com/Email: [email protected] out SPaMCAST's Facebook page and get involved!!!! http://tinyurl.com/62z5elThe 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.There are a number of ways to share your thoughts with SPaMCAST: • Email SPaMCAST at [email protected]• Voice messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111• Twitter - www.twitter.com/tcagley• BLOG - www.tcagley.wordpress.com• FACEBOOK!!!! Software Process and Measurement http://tinyurl.com/62z5elNext Software Process and Measurement Cast: 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 [email protected]. Contact information: Web Site: http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/Email: [email protected] out SPaMCAST's Facebook page and get involved!!!! http://tinyurl.com/62z5elWe 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 [email protected] or (586)412-9609. In my opinion process improvement is good politics regardless of political affiliation or lack thereof.There are a number of ways to share your thoughts with SPaMCAST: • Email SPaMCAST at [email protected]• Voice messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111• Twitter – www.twitter.com/tcagley• BLOG – www.tcagley.wordpress.com• FACEBOOK!!!! Software Process and Measurement http://tinyurl.com/62z5elNext Software Process and Measurement Cast: The next Software Process and Measurement Cast will feature an interview with Ellen Gottesdiener. Can you say agile requirements?

Manfred Bundschuh is an internationally recognized expert on software measurement, estimating and international standards, with more than 40 years IT experience, as an IT controller, consultant, and project manager. In addition, he has been teaching software engineering at the University of Applied Sciences in Cologne, Germany, for more than 25 years. For the last 5 years he has been president of the DASMA e.V., the metrics organization of German speaking countries.Book information:Springer (Publisher) has full info about the book incl. Table of contents and free chapter 2 as well as reviews by Peter Hill and Capers Jones:Available at www.springer.com/978-3-540-68187-8Contact information:Email: [email protected] out SPaMCAST's Facebook page and get involved!!!!http://tinyurl.com/62z5elThe essay for this cast is titled "The Fine Line" in which I ask you fine line between overhead to meet real information needs and overhead that saps efficiencyThere are a number of ways to share your thoughts with SPaMCAST: * Email SPaMCAST at [email protected] * Voice messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111 * Twitter - www.twitter.com/tcagley * BLOG - www.tcagley.wordpress.com * FACEBOOK!!!! Software Process and Measurement http://tinyurl.com/62z5el Next Software Process and Measurement Cast:The next Software Process and Measurement Cast will feature part two of my interview with Mike Cohn on agile estimation.

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 [email protected] information: Web Site: http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/Email: [email protected] Check out SPaMCAST's Facebook page and get involved!!!! http://tinyurl.com/62z5elThe 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.There are a number of ways to share your thoughts with SPaMCAST: • Email SPaMCAST at [email protected]• Voice messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111• Twitter – www.twitter.com/tcagley• BLOG – www.tcagley.wordpress.com• FACEBOOK!!!! Software Process and Measurement http://tinyurl.com/62z5el 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. Next Software Process and Measurement Cast: 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 Two features an interview with Dr. Magdy Hanna. Dr Hanna leads both the "International Institute for Software Testing" and "International Institute for Software Process". We discussed the new Certified Software Process Improvement Professional certification and certification in general. . Dr. Hanna is a recognized educator, speaker and consultant in several areas of software engineering. His distinguished seminars on various topics have been highly rated by software professionals. Dr. Hanna's experience with software goes back to the mid 1970's when he worked as a developer at the NCR center in Cairo , Egypt . Over the last thirty years, Dr. Hanna has worked in all aspects of software projects and processes in all capacities.Dr. Hanna is the founder, CEO and Chairman of the International Institute for Software Testing, ( www.iist.org ) the leading educational and professional development organization that provides education-based certifications to software test and quality professionals around the world.Dr. Hanna is the founder and Chairperson of the International Conference on Practical Software Quality and Testing, ( www.PSQTconference.com ) and founder and Chairperson of the International Conference on Software Process Improvement, ( www.icspi.com ).Contact information:Web Site: http://www.icspi.com/Email: [email protected] out SPaMCAST's New Facebook page!!!!http://tinyurl.com/62z5elThe essay for the software process and measurement cast 42 is a mini metacast where I answer the question just who the do I think I am and why am I doing this at all. I also have a few announcements about my podcasting future (and it has nothing to do with fading)..There are a number of ways to share your thoughts with SPaMCAST: * Email SPaMCAST at [email protected] * Voice messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111 * Twitter - www.twitter.com/tcagley * BLOG – www.tcagley.wordpress.com * FACEBOOK!!!! Software Process and Measurement http://tinyurl.com/62z5elFuture Events and the next Cast. . .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:The next Software Process and Measurement Cast will feature an interview with Mike Cohn.

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.Contact information:Web Site: http://www.controlchaos.com/Email: [email protected] out SPaMCAST's New Facebook page!!!!http://tinyurl.com/62z5elThe 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.There are a number of ways to share your thoughts with SPaMCAST: There are a number of ways to share your thoughts with SPaMCAST: • Email SPaMCAST at [email protected]• Voice messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111• Twitter – www.twitter.com/tcagley• BLOG – www.tcagley.wordpress.com• FACEBOOK!!!! Software Process and Measurement http://tinyurl.com/62z5elFuture Events and the next Cast. . .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: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 Forty features an interview with Barbara Blake of Longview Associates. Barbara and I discussed executive coaching, improvement and change its myriad forms. If you are interested in your career or organizational change this is an important interview. Barbara Blake is founder of Longview Associates, LLC, an executive coaching and leadership development consulting practice. As a keen observer of organizational performance, Barbara is convinced that the key component to successful operations and objectives are the people in an organization. Barbara works with executives and entrepreneurs to take them to the next level of performance and interpersonal relations. They see results both at work and in their personal lives; they are energized, transformed and they achieve Barbara has held management positions in a consulting firm, a publishing company, and several financial services institutions. She has also been involved in the development of emerging leaders by managing training programs and teaching at the MBA level. She is a certified executive coach through the Penn State Executive Program, and a member of the Worldwide Association of Business Coaches. Contact information: Web Site: http://www.longview-assoc.com/Email: [email protected] Check out SPaMCAST's New Facebook page!!!! http://tinyurl.com/62z5el The essay for this cast is titled, "Vitamins, Aspirin and Viagra". The essay ruminates on why some changes are easier to sell and catch hold within organizations faster. We will conclude with information on a few upcoming conferences, comments from listeners and notes on upcoming casts. There are a number of ways to share your thoughts with SPaMCAST: Email SPaMCAST at [email protected] messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111Twitter – www.twitter.com/tcagleyBLOG – www.tcagley.wordpress.comFACEBOOK!!!! Software Process and Measurement http://tinyurl.com/62z5el Future Events and the next Cast. . . 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: The next Software Process and Measurement Cast will feature an interview with Ken Schwaber, Mr SCRUM. If you use SCRUM or are interested in Agile this is a must listen.

Show Thirty Nine features an interview with Andrew "Roo" Reynolds. Roo was a Metaverse Evangelist at IBM when we did the interview but now is Portfolio Executive, Social Media at BBC Vision. In show 38 I said that this interview will describe the future of teaming and collaboration. You will not be disappointed. From Roo's website (and not what is on the cast . . .): I've accepted the position of Portfolio Executive, Social Media at BBC Vision. What that means is that I'll be helping to define, develop and execute BBC Vision's strategy in relation to social media. Simon Nelson gave a speech in September 2007 about some of the progress made (and challenges faced) by the BBC in regard to multiplatform (more discussion about that here). That's the backdrop to what I'm going there to help with. No doubt I'll talk more about the specifics in the coming weeks and months. Oh, and I get to work with such cool people as Dan Taylor and Jo Twist. Contact information: You can read his blog at http://rooreynolds.com/Email: [email protected] place to look: http://eightbar.co.uk/ Rember to check out SPaMCAST's New Facebook page!!!! http://tinyurl.com/62z5el In the essay segment in this cast we have three short pieces. The first is a book review of Subliminal Persuasion by Dave Lakhani. The second piece is a promo Pam Morris's talk at the ISMA conference and finally we have a promo for Mur Lafferty's novel Playing for Keeps. We will conclude with information on a few upcoming conferences, comments from listeners and notes on upcoming casts. There are a number of ways to share your thoughts with SPaMCAST: Email SPaMCAST at [email protected] messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111Twitter – www.twitter.com/tcagleyBLOG – www.tcagley.wordpress.comFACEBOOK!!!! Software Process and Measurement http://tinyurl.com/62z5el Future Events and the next Cast. . . 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: The next Software Process and Measurement Cast will feature an interview with Barbara Blake of Longview Associates. We discussed of how, when and whether coaching can be used to improve efficiency. Is there a coach in your future? Maybe there should be!

Show 37 is my interview with Ed Yourdon. We discussed Web 2.0 and it's impact on the software development worlds. I have titled the interview, "Collaborate or Die!" A bit over the top you say, well Denis Waitley once said, "on line or in the bread line." The people I was with thought that was a bit over the top. He was right and I would suggest the use of Web 2.0 tools is another watershed. Ed is a one of those rare polymaths in the IT world. His bio from Wikipedia begins Edward Nash Yourdon (born 1944) is a computer consultant, an author and lecturer, and a recognized pioneer in the software engineering methodology of structured programming world. He is a graduate of MIT, earning a BS in Mathematics in 1965. The December 1999 issue of Crosstalk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering named Yourdon one of the ten most influential people in the software field. In June 1997, he was inducted into the Computer Hall of Fame Yourdon is widely known as the lead developer of the Structured Systems Analysis and Design Method (SSADM), as well as co-developer of the Yourdon/Whitehead method of object-oriented analysis/design and the popular Coad/Yourdon OO methodology of the late 1980s and 1990s. He has authored over 550 technical articles and authored or coauthored 26 computer books since 1967. He founded and published American Programmer magazine (now titled Cutter IT Journal). He is the author of the best-selling Decline and Fall of the American Programmer. Mr. Yourdon currently serves as an internationally-recognized expert witness and computer consultant who specializes in project management, software engineering methodologies, and Web 2.0 development. I asked Ed how people could contact him and the part of the response that struck me was, "I am online". Blog: www.yourdonreport.comWebsite: www.yourdon.comEmail: [email protected] You can also find Ed on Twitter (Yourdon), Plaxo and other Web 2.0 social networks. The essay for this cast is titled "Just How Badly Do You Want A Number?" The essay challenges managers and project managers to think about that initial estimate and the impact it might actually have. The text of the essay can be found at www.tcagley.wordpress.com. Comments and suggestions are welcome. Check out the SPaMCAST Facebook page. I wil be posting information on which shows relates to which theme. For example Kenji's recent interview, Scott Amblers and Kent Becks all have an agile flavor. This will be a quick way to hit all of the shows in a general thematic area. There are a number of ways to share your thoughts . . Email SPaMCAST at [email protected] Voice messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111 Twitter – www.twitter.com/tcagley BLOG – www.tcagley.wordpress.com FACEBOOK!!!! Software Process and Measurement Future Events and the next . . . 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 feature an interview with Roo Reynolds of IBM. Roo is one of the leading forces in using metaverses such as Second Life to rewrite how software development and collaboration happen. In SPaMCAST 39 you are going to see the future so do not miss it!

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. You can read his blog at http://jude-users.com/en/modules/weblog/index.php?user_id=5 Check out SPaMCAST's New Facebook page!!!! 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. There are a number of ways to share your thoughts: Email SPaMCAST at [email protected] Voice messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111 Twitter – www.twitter.com/tcagley BLOG – www.tcagley.wordpress.com FACEBOOK!!!! Software Process and Measurement Future Events and the next . . . 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 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 36 is part two of my interview with Phil Armour. The interview focused on estimation and just a bit of philosophy, powerful stuff that may change how you view estimation and the goal of software development. Phillip G. Armour is VP for Systems Development and a Senior Consultant at Corvus International Inc. Phil has been developing software for over thirty-five years. He has been a programmer, analyst, project manager, DBA, systems architect, process engineer, metrics engineer, consultant, and executive coach and has worked for organizations as diverse as United Airlines, Motorola, Argonne National Laboratory, General Dynamics, the IRS, the premier software consulting company in India, and the largest cellular service provider in Central West Africa. In the last fifteen years, Phil has personally taught software development techniques and management principles to over 20,000 developers, engineers, managers, and executives. Phil's primary professional focus is currently in two related areas: software project estimation and software technical team development. Since 2000, Phil has been a contributing editor on ACM's flagship magazine "Communications of the ACM" and writes a regular column entitled "The Business of Software" where he explores issues to do with the nature and challenges of modern software. He has been on the extended faculty at the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management and the Mendoza School of Business at the University of Notre Dame. Phil is also the author of "The Laws of Software Process" published by Auerbach in 2003. He is a member of ACM, IEEE, and the Project Management Institute. Telephone: (847)-438-1609Fax: (847)-438-1638Email: [email protected]: www.corvusintl.comwww.corvusintl.com The essay for this cast is titled "Why Should You Care What Is Driving Change". The essay is a reminder to process improvement personnel that to be effective you need to understand why you are making a change. I suggest that if you don't understand the rationale for change, stop until you do. The text of the essay can be found at www.tcagley.wordpress.com. Comments and suggestions are welcome. There are a number of ways to share your thoughts: Email SPaMCAST at [email protected] Voice messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111 Twitter – www.twitter.com/tcagley BLOG – www.tcagley.wordpress.com FACEBOOK!!!! Software Process and Measurement Future Events and the next . . . 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 feature an interview with Kenji Hiranabe on using Kanban in the software development. Many of you will remember my interview covering mind mapping with Kenji back on SPaCAST 7 (April 2007). That episode continues to be one of the most downloaded. If you missed it I would suggest checking it out.

Show 35 is my interview with Charlene Li, co-author of Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies. The use of social media is a fact of life, we are now challenged with how we take advantage of the possibilities. Charlene Li, Vice President & Principal Analyst, primarily contributes to Forrester's offerings for the Interactive Marketing professional. She is one of the driving forces behind Forrester's Social Computing and Web 2.0 research, and examines how companies can use technologies like blogs, social networking, RSS, tagging, and widgets for marketing purposes. During her eight years at Forrester, Charlene has also led the marketing and media research team, and ran the San Francisco office. In her research, Charlene covers such marketing-related topics as consumer portals, search, and media site design. She also leverages her background in newspaper publishing and looks at online local media and online classifieds. In the past, she has also written about online advertising, online gaming, and media content strategies. She also contributes to her Groundswell blog and plans to publish a book by the same name in spring 2008. Website: http://blogs.forrester.com/charleneli/ The essay is for this show is an excerpt from my paper "When Good Numbers Go Bad: Mistakes". The excerpt explores the impact of mistakes on metrics programs as the grace and speed in which programs recognize and recover from a mistake will determine the long-term prognosis of the program (assuming you don't make the same mistake more than once or twice). If you are interested in a complete copy of the article please contact me at [email protected]. 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 . . Email SPaMCAST at [email protected] Voice messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111Twitter – www.twitter.com/tcagleyBLOG – www.tcagley.wordpress.com Future Events and the next . . . 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 continue with the powerful interview with Phil Armour on estimation. The interview contains even more sage wisdom from Phil so keep your notebook close at hand!

Show 34 is the beginning of my interview with Phil Armour. I am calling this interview, "Estimation Ain't Planning". I must admit that I have been quoting this interview since I taped it. Amazingly powerful concepts, so powerful I decided to revisit estimation. Phillip G. Armour is VP for Systems Development and a Senior Consultant at Corvus International Inc. Phil has been developing software for over thirty-five years. He has been a programmer, analyst, project manager, DBA, systems architect, process engineer, metrics engineer, consultant, and executive coach and has worked for organizations as diverse as United Airlines, Motorola, Argonne National Laboratory, General Dynamics, the IRS, the premier software consulting company in India, and the largest cellular service provider in Central West Africa. In the last fifteen years, Phil has personally taught software development techniques and management principles to over 20,000 developers, engineers, managers, and executives. Phil's primary professional focus is currently in two related areas: software project estimation and software technical team development. Since 2000, Phil has been a contributing editor on ACM's flagship magazine "Communications of the ACM" and writes a regular column entitled "The Business of Software" where he explores issues to do with the nature and challenges of modern software. He has been on the extended faculty at the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management and the Mendoza School of Business at the University of Notre Dame. Phil is also the author of "The Laws of Software Process" published by Auerbach in 2003. He is a member of ACM, IEEE, and the Project Management Institute. Telephone: (847)-438-1609Fax: (847)-438-1638Email: [email protected]: www.corvusintl.com The essay is titled "Estimation, Planning and Goals: All Different I Say!". The essay explores the confusion of words used in project planning and control. The essay may be due to my long-term issue with a how words are used and misused, false levels of precision or just the fact that the process relating to the software engineering disciplines like estimation continue to prove to be difficult to implement regardless of the development method used. 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 . Email SPaMCAST at [email protected] Voice messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111 Twitter – www.twitter.com/tcagley BLOG – www.tcagley.wordpress.com Future Events and the next . . . 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 I will interview Charlene Li of Forrester Research, co-author of "Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies". We talked about opinion how are social networks and strategies rewriting the organization and its relations to its customers.

SPaMCAST 33 - Donnellan, Software Metrics Programs Part 2, Guest Essay Show 33 is part two of my interview with Rob Donnellan discussing the trials and tribulations of metrics programs. Rob has provided a plethora tips for developing and marketing metrics programs if you are in the metrics business make sure you list to both this interview and the first part of the interview in show 30. 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 University of Connecticut. Mr. Donnellan can be contacted by email at [email protected] or by phone at (401) 783-3005. Q/P Management Group's web site can be found at http://www.qpmg.com/. The essay is for this show is a guest essay by Frank Glaz of David Consulting Group discussing using function point counting to determine the efficiency of vendors. The essay explores a thorny subject that is rarely discussed at conferences or in the literature. Frank would appreciate comments. There are a number of ways to share your thoughts . . Email SPaMCAST at [email protected] messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111Twitter – www.twitter.com/tcagleyBLOG – www.tcagley.wordpress.com Future Events and the next . . . 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 I will begin a massive interview with Phil Armour. Phil presented some of the most thought provoking and provocative ideas on estimation and while I was going to delay discussing estimation again for a at least a few months I frankly could not help myself.

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 23 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 [email protected] 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 . . Email SPaMCAST at [email protected] messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111Twitter – www.twitter.com/tcagleyBLOG – www.tcagley.wordpress.com 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!

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 . . Email SPaMCAST at [email protected] Voice messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111 Twitter – www.twitter.com/tcagley BLOG – www.tcagley.wordpress.com 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 . . .

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 University of Connecticut. Mr. Donnellan can be contacted by email at [email protected] 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 . . Email SPaMCAST at [email protected] Voice messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111 Twitter – www.twitter.com/tcagley BLOG – www.tcagley.wordpress.com 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 . . .

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 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 [email protected] 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 . . Email SPaMCAST at [email protected] messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111Twitter – www.twitter.com/tcagleyBLOG – www.tcagley.wordpress.com 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 . . .

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/ The essay for this cast is titled "Social Media and Process Improvement." The essay discusses the impact of social media on the practice of 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 . . Email SPaMCAST at [email protected] Voice messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111 Twitter – www.twitter.com/tcagley BLOG – www.tcagley.wordpress.com 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 . . .

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 . . Email SPaMCAST at [email protected] Voice messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111 Twitter – www.twitter.com/tcagley BLOG – www.tcagley.wordpress.com 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 . . . Technorati Profile

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 . . Email SPaMCAST at [email protected] Voice messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111 Twitter – www.twitter.com/tcagley BLOG – www.tcagley.wordpress.com 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 . . .

SPaMCAST 25 - Booch, Omnibus Framework A few hours late . . . for some reason Audacity and Vista had a wrestling match this afternoon. A couple of reinstalls later we are back in action however I think the interview and essay might be the some of the best of year one! Show 25 features an interview with Grady Booch. The interview covers topics ranging from high ceremony processes, anarchy, and organizational governance to virtual worlds. Humboldt Curve and even Moore's Law even make appearances. Grady is recognized internationally for his innovative work on software architecture and software engineering. A renowned visionary, he has devoted his life's work to improving the effectiveness of software developers worldwide. Grady served as Chief Scientist of Rational Software Corporation since its founding in 1981 and continues to serve in that capacity within IBM. Grady is one of the original authors of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and was also one of the original developers of several of Rational's products. Grady has served as architect and architectural mentor for numerous complex software-intensive systems around the world in just about every domain imaginable. Grady is the author of six best-selling books, including the UML Users Guide and the seminal Object-Oriented Analysis with Applications. He has published several hundred articles on software engineering, including papers published in the early '80s that originated the term and practice of object-oriented design (OOD), plus papers published in the early 2000's that originated the term and practice of collaborative development environments (CDE). 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 [email protected] The essay for this cast is titled "Omnibus Frameworks, Collaboration and Social Media." The essay wrestles with balancing frameworks, collaboration and a new world order in process improvement. Humans are generally social by nature, IT personnel are no different (although the stereotype indicates differently) the new focus on social media whether in second life, Twitter or other platforms are tools that will let you break down high ceremony processes into more manageable 'practices.' The shift from one size fits all frameworks to highly granular practices will allow you to shift control closer to work and support usage via social media tools. 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 . . Email SPaMCAST at [email protected] Voice messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111 Twitter – www.twitter.com/tcagley BLOG – www.tcagley.wordpress.com 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 . . .

SPaMCAST SIX Estimation Interview with Michael Bragen The Software Process and Measurmeent Cast Six continues the the theme arc on estimation with a conversation with Michael Bragen of Software Productivitity Research, LLC (SPR). This is an interview where having a pencil and paper to take notes will come in handy (at least it did for me and I was there). SPR's website is www.spr.com Mr. Bragen's email address is [email protected] The essay in this cast is titled 'An Estimate Is Just A Number, Right?' It is way too easy to forget that an estimate carries alot of wieght even when it is given off-the-cuff. The full text version of the essay can be found at www.tcagley.wordpress.com. Next Cast: The next cast will be posted on Sunday April 22 (programing notes on April 15) and will feature an interview with Kenji Hiranabe in which we will talk about using Mind Maps in Agile projects. The essay I hae planned will be titled 'Whay Are Requirements So Hard To Get Right'. Your thoughts on the topic as I write the document will be appreciated (afterwards also). Currently I have four more interviews in the 'can' after Kenji with names that include Finegold, Herron, Ferdinandi and Symons. Other are being lined up! If you have a suggestion please let me know at [email protected]! Events: IFPUG Spring Workshops and Functional Size SummitApril 22 - 27Vancouver, British Columbia, Canadawww.ifpug.org'Counting New Medias: Blogs, WIKIs, Podcasts and Second Life' (April 24) Better Software Conference and ExpoJune 18 - 21Las Vegas, Nevadawww.seq.com/bscereg'When Good Numbers Go Bad' (June 21 at 3 PM) Contact SPaMCAST at [email protected]

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: [email protected] Marilyn's email: [email protected] The essay this week is titled "Specialization: Making It Work For You!" The essay seeks to answer the question, "when did process, documentation and certifications become the goal rather than a path for attaining project success?" This frightening question caused me to relate two seemingly different concepts during quite times of contemplation over the past few weeks. The first was the impact of hyper-specialization in the process improvement world (and by extension anywhere it is used) and the second was a need to refocus process improvement groups on helping organizations deliver project results. This could be scary stuff but solvable and solvable in a way that won't break the bank. 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 . . Email SPaMCAST at [email protected] Voice messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111 Twitter – www.twitter.com/tcagley BLOG – www.tcagley.wordpress.com 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 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!

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: Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management: Hiring The Best Knowledge Workers, Techies & Nerds: The Secrets & Science of Hiring Technical People: Hiring Technical People blog Managing Product Development blog 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 . . Email SPaMCAST at [email protected] Voice messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111 Twitter – www.twitter.com/tcagley BLOG – www.tcagley.wordpress.com 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

** I know this show is a week late. I had a motherboard failure; I am working on a replacement. ** Show 22 features an interview with Joe Levens of Wolters Kluwer discussing Configuration Management (CM). Joe has worked in development, testing, configuration management, and process improvement roles for 24 years. He formed and led the Configuration Management group at Reuters for 8 years, which performed a unique process of integrity checking on software releases, to significantly improve product quality delivered to the customer. His group managed an average of 1000 software and document releases per year, distributed globally. Joseph is currently a Program Manager for Wolters Kluwer, where he chairs a Software Process Improvement Collaboration Forum among organizations throughout North America. The essay is titled "Attention as an Asset in Outsourcing". The text of this commentary can be found at www.tcagley.wordpress.com. Comments and corrections are welcome. Remember that comments and feedback are welcome! There are a number of ways to share your thoughts . . Email SPaMCAST at [email protected] Voice messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111 Twitter - www.twitter.com/tcagley BLOG – www.tcagley.wordpress.com Next Software Process and Measurement Cast: The next Software Process and Measurement Cast features an interview with Johanna Rothman titled "Project Management in the Post Waterfall World. Johanna is an author, consultant and guru if you have any interest in Project Management you will not want to miss this interview!

Software Process and Measurement Show 21! Show 21 features an interview with Miranda Mason of Accenture on metrics consulting and sourcing programs. The interview has a ton of information on how to make metrics programs useful and how to approach sourcing these kinds of programs. MS Mason is the global Performance Management and metrics lead for Accenture's Outsourcing practice. She has extensive experience in IT metrics, Balanced Scorecards, Six Sigma, and application outsourcing. Miranda lives in Denver with her husband and 3 year old son. The essay is titled "Marine Corp Marathon 10k and Process Improvement, One Year Later . . ." The text of this commentary can be found at www.tcagley.wordpress.com. Comments and corrections are welcome! Remember that comments and feedback are welcome! There are a number of ways to share your thoughts . . Email SPaMCAST at [email protected] Voice messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111 Twitter – www.twitter.com/tcagley BLOG – www.tcagley.wordpress.com Future Events: 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. Next Software Process and Measurement Cast: The next Software Process and Measurement Cast will feature a brilliant interview with Joe Levens of Wolters Kluwer on configuration management (CM).

Software Process and Measurement Show 20! Show 20 features Part 2 of an interview with Dave Garmus discussing IFPUG Function Points. David Garmus is one of the Founders of The David Consulting Group (DCG). David is an acknowledged authority in the sizing, measurement and estimation of software application development. He is a Past President of the International Function Point Users Group (IFPUG) and a member of their Counting Practices Committee. Mr. Garmus is also a member of PMI, SEI and QAI. He has a BS from UCLA and an MBA from Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration. He has spoken at numerous conferences and has written many articles and several books, including: · Measuring The Software Process: A Practical Guide To Functional Measurements, Prentice Hall, 1996 · Function Point Analysis; Measurement Practices for Successful Software Projects, Addison-Wesley, 2001 · IT Measurement; Practical Advice from the Experts, Addison-Wesley, 2002 as a Contributor · "IT Metrics and Benchmarking," Cutter IT Journal, June & November 2003 issues, Guest Editor · "Identifying Your Organization's Best Practices," CrossTalk, June 2005 · "An Introduction to Function Point Counting," Projects & Profits, ICFAI, June 2005 · "The Principles of Sizing and Estimating Projects Using IFPUG Function Points," Software Tech News, June 2006 The essay is titled "Tailoring and Worktypes." The text of this commentary can be found at www.tcagley.wordpress.com. Comments and corrections are welcome. Remember that comments and feedback are welcome! There are a number of ways to share your thoughts . . . Email SPaMCAST at [email protected] Voice messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111 Twitter – www.twitter.com/tcagley BLOG – www.tcagley.wordpress.com Future Events: 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. Next Software Process and Measurement Cast: The next Software Process and Measurement Cast will feature an interview with Miranda Mason of Accenture on sourcing metrics programs. Sourcing your metrics program is not a topic that gets a lot of press however the practice is becoming more common and bears examination.

Software Process and Measurement Cast Show 19! Show 19 features an interview with Dave Garmus discussing IFPUG Function Points. David Garmus is one of the Founders of The David Consulting Group (DCG). David is an acknowledged authority in the sizing, measurement and estimation of software application development. He is a Past President of the International Function Point Users Group (IFPUG) and a member of their Counting Practices Committee. Mr. Garmus is also a member of PMI, SEI and QAI. He has a BS from UCLA and an MBA from Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration. He has spoken at numerous conferences and has written many articles and several books, including: · Measuring The Software Process: A Practical Guide To Functional Measurements, Prentice Hall, 1996 · Function Point Analysis; Measurement Practices for Successful Software Projects, Addison-Wesley, 2001 · IT Measurement; Practical Advice from the Experts, Addison-Wesley, 2002 as a Contributor · "IT Metrics and Benchmarking," Cutter IT Journal, June & November 2003 issues, Guest Editor · "Identifying Your Organization's Best Practices," CrossTalk, June 2005 · "An Introduction to Function Point Counting," Projects & Profits, ICFAI, June 2005 · "The Principles of Sizing and Estimating Projects Using IFPUG Function Points," Software Tech News, June 2006 The essay is titled "Stockholm Syndrome and Outsourcing." The text of this commentary can be found at www.tcagley.wordpress.com. Comments and corrections are welcome. Remember that comments and feedback are welcome! There are a number of ways to share your thoughts . . . Email SPaMCAST at [email protected] Voice messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111 Twitter – www.twitter.com/tcagley BLOG – www.tcagley.wordpress.com Future Events: 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. Next Software Process and Measurement Cast: The next Software Process and Measurement Cast will feature Part 1 of the interview with Dave Garmus covering IFPUG Function Points, if you are interested in functional measurement this is a must cast.

Software Process and Measurement Show 18! 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. Remember that comments and feedback are welcome! There are a number of ways to share your thoughts . . . Email SPaMCAST at [email protected] Voice messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111 Twitter – www.twitter.com/tcagley BLOG – www.tcagley.wordpress.com Future Events: 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. Next Software Process and Measurement Cast: 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.

Software Process and MeasurementShow 17! Show 16 features an interview Paul Radford of Charismatek Software Metrics discussing using functional metrics to build software. Paul is one of the movers and shakers behind Charismatek Software Metrics a multifaceted organization that has brought us Function Point Workbench and a wide range of consulting. Paul is a master at making software measurement relevant to controlling and delivering software. Contact data: Phone: + 61 (0) 3 9696 1255Email: [email protected]://www.charismatek.com The essay titledfor this cast is titled ""You Get What You Look For, So Look," discusses the common measurement short coming of stock piling data before reporting or using it. The text of this commentary can be found at www.tcagley.wordpress.com. Comments and corrections are welcome. Remember that comments and feedback are welcome! There are a number of ways to share your thoughts . . . Email SPaMCAST at [email protected] Voice messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111 Twitter – www.twitter.com/tcagley BLOG – www.tcagley.wordpress.com Future Events: In September, I will be presenting 'Life on the Edge: Counting Weird Things on the Web' on Thursday September 13th at 11:20 at the International Software Measurement and Analysis Conference in Las Vegas. The conference and workshops run from Sunday September 9 through the 14th. Details are available at http://www.ifpug.org/educational/workshopagenda2007.htm Next Software Process and Measurement Cast: The next Software Process and Measurement Cast features a wonderful interview with Kent Beck in which we discussed transparency. If you are interested in the cutting edge of software development from a humanistic point of view you will need to be here in two weeks.

An open letter to IFPUG members: Board of Directors Election (This letter is not authorized by IFPUG or IFPUG's Board of Directors) Four Board of Director Candidates speak out on the Issues! I offered all of the candidates running for the IFPUG Board of Directors the opportunity to answer one question to be posted on the Software Process and Measurement Cast (SPaMCAST). The question was "in your opinion what is IFPUG's most significant problem and if elected what would you do about it." Four of the eight candidates took me up on the offer. I have packaged their answers on this special edition of SPaMCAST. Note, I did no editing on these responses. Also the fact that they're appearing on SPaMCAST is not a recommendation by me or IFPUG. It is merely a public service for the membership. If you are interested in listening to the podcast you can subscribe via ITunes, other podcatchers or go to www.spamcast.net for streaming. Commentary: As in IFPUG member you have a deep interest in how IFPUG governed. Board members have a significant hand in whether new ideas are embraced or the status quo maintained, whether offerings are expanded or maintained. Your vote for the members of the IFPUG Board of Directors is an important tool for you to make your voice heard. If you're voting member in good standing (one good indication is whether you paid your dues) you should have recently received a ballot in the mail or an e-mail with instructions on how to vote if you have not received one or both please: Validate you are a voting member. Remember that corporate members have the specific people identified as voting members. After validating your voting member make sure you paid your dues for the 2007 – 2008 year. If you still think you are should have received a ballot contact the office at [email protected] and please copy me at [email protected] Voting is an important obligation of membership. Voting is part of the theme of involvement I will be stressing when I become president later this year. Begin your involvement with IFPUG by voting. Note this entry will be posted at www.IFPUGpresident.wordpress.com. I will be update this blog periodically during my presidency. I'm looking to serving you on the Board of Directors. If you are interested in software process or measurement the Software Process and Measurement Cast is a great opportunity for you to listen to such a people in as Kent Beck, Capers Jones, Will McKnight, Mary Poppendieck Dave Garmus, Scott Goldfarb and many others. Please subscribe via I Tunes or directly at www.spamcast.net

Software Process and MeasurementShow 16! Show 16 features an interview with Mary Poppendieck discussing Lean Software Development processes. Mary Poppendieck As a seasoned leader in both operations and new product development, she brings a practical, customer-focused approach to software development problems. A popular writer and speaker, Mary's classes on managing software development offer a fresh perspective on project management. Her book Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit, was published in 2003 and won the Software Development Productivity Award in 2004. A sequel, Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash, was published in 2006. Mary's contact data is: Phone: 952-934-7998Email: [email protected]://www.poppendieck.com/ The essay on this instatllment of the Software Process and Measurement Cast is a titled "A Pattern of Failure, A Pattern of Change.�? The essay is a commentary on the lack of systemic thinking we sometimes see in process improvement programs The text of this commentary can be found at www.tcagley.wordpress.com. Comments and corrections are welcome. Remember that comments and feedback are welcome! There are a number of ways to share your thoughts . . . Email SPaMCAST at [email protected] Voice messages can be left at 1.206.888.6111 Twitter www.twitter.com/tcagley BLOG www.tcagley.wordpress.com Future Events: In September, I will be presenting 'Life on the Edge: Counting Weird Things on the Web' on Thursday September 13th at 11:20 at the International Software Measurement and Analysis Conference in Las Vegas. The conference and workshops run from Sunday September 9 through the 14th. Details are available at http://www.ifpug.org/educational/workshopagenda2007.htm Next Software Process and Measurement Cast: The next Software Process and Measurement Cast will feature an interview with Paul Radford of Charismatek Software Metrics, if you are interested in software process and measurement this is a must cast. Co

Software Process and Measurement Show 15! Show 14 features an interview with Scott Goldfarb discussing software baselines and benchmarks. Scott, the President of Q/P Management Group (http://www.qpmg.com/), is an international consultant and speaker with over thirty years of software experience. Scott specializes in helping organizations improve software quality and productivity through measurement. Scott can be contacted at [email protected]. Ray Rosenblatt has contributed a review of the book "Metrics and Models in Software Quality Engineering�? by Stephen H Kan for the essay. The text of this commentary can be found at my blog, www.tcagley.wordpress.com. Remember that comments and feedback are welcome! There are a number of ways to share your thoughts . . . Email SPaMCAST at [email protected] Voice messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111 Twitter – www.twitter.com/tcagley BLOG – www.tcagley.wordpress.com Future Events: On August 23 I will present a DCG / CAI Webinar: titled Measure Twice, Implement Once at 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EDT . See http://www.davidconsultinggroup.com/news/calendar.aspx for details. In September, I will be presenting 'Life on the Edge: Counting Weird Things on the Web' on Thursday September 13th at 11:20 at the International Software Measurement and Analysis Conference in Las Vegas. The conference and workshops run from Sunday September 9 through the 14th. Details are available at http://www.ifpug.org/educational/workshopagenda2007.htm Next Software Process and Measurement Cast: The next Software Process and Measurement Cast will feature an interview with Mary Poppendieck on Lean, if you are interested in software process efficiency this is a must cast. Co

Software Process and MeasurementShow 14! Show 14 features an interview with M.A. Parthasarathy discussing estimation and his new book "Practical Software Estimation Function Point Methods for Insourced and Outsourced Projects." Partha is the Head of Outsourcing Academy at the Strategic Global Sourcing unit at Infosys. In this role, he is responsible for enabling and developing competencies of the SGS Delivery team, specific to large outsourcing engagements. Partha can be reached at [email protected]. The essay for this cast is a review of Partha's book "Practical Software Estimation". If you skip the review (really bad choice) just remember this is book is one to buy and use. The text of this commentary can be found at my personal blog, www.tcagley.wordpress.com. Remember that comments and feedback are welcome! There are a number of ways to share your thoughts . . . Email SPaMCAST at [email protected] Voice messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111 Twitter – www.twitter.com/tcagley BLOG – www.tcagley.wordpress.com It is my intent to share all emails and voice messages! Future Events: On August 23 I will present a DCG / CAI Webinar: titled Measure Twice, Implement Once at 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EDT . See http://www.davidconsultinggroup.com/news/calendar.aspx for details. In September, I will be presenting 'Life on the Edge: Counting Weird Things on the Web' on Thursday September 13th at 11:20 at the International Software Measurement and Analysis Conference in Las Vegas. The conference and workshops run from Sunday September 9 through the 14th. Details are available at http://www.ifpug.org/educational/workshopagenda2007.htm News from Friends of SPaMCAST I got a note from Kenji Hiranabe, I interviewed Kenji in SPaMCAST 7. We discussed agile and mind maps. He provided an update on some of the things he is up to – 1. Ruby and Agile combination rant. I have a chance to talk with Matz, the father of Ruby. We talk about Ruby and Agile and video taped and added English subtitles. http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/06/ruby-x-agile 2. Sustainable Software Development, book review mind map. Great book. I made a fancy mind map of the concept. The two can be found in my English blog. http://jude-users.com/en/modules/weblog/index.php?user_id=5 Next Software Process and Measurement Cast: The next Software Process and Measurement Cast features an interview with Scott Goldfarb on benchmarks. This interview included tons information for people interested in software metrics.

Software Process and MeasurementShow 13! Six Month Anniversary Show Thirteen features an interview with Gary Gack on Lean Six Sigma. The interview is phenomenal! Gary is the founder of Process-Fusion.net and holds an MBA from the Wharton School. He is a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. In addition an ASQ Certified Software Quality Engineer (CSQE), a Visiting Scientist with the Software Engineering Institute where he co-authored the "Measuring for Performance Driven Improvement 1" course for which he is an authorized instructor, and he holds the ITIL Foundation Certification. He has more than 40 years of diverse experience in the software and IT industry, including more than 20 years focused on process improvement. Gary can be reach by email at [email protected] or by phone at (904) 579-1894. The essay for this cast is titled, "Achieving Balance in Outsourcing Governance."" The text of this commentary can be found at my personal blog, www.tcagley.wordpress.com. Remember that comments and feedback are welcome! There are a number of ways to share your thoughts . . . Email SPaMCAST at [email protected] Voice messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111 Twitter – www.twitter.com/tcagley It is my intent to share all emails and voice messages! Future Events: On August 23 I will present a DCG / CAI Webinar: titled Measure Twice, Implement Once at 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EDT . See http://www.davidconsultinggroup.com/news/calendar.aspx for details. In September, I will be presenting 'Life on the Edge: Counting Weird Things on the Web' on Thursday September 13th at 11:20 at the International Software Measurement and Analysis Conference in Las Vegas. The conference and workshops run from Sunday September 9 througth the 14th. Details are available at http://www.ifpug.org/educational/workshopagenda2007.htm Next Software Process and Measurement Cast: The next Software Process and Measurement Cast features an interview with M.A. Parthasarathy, Mr. Parthasarathy is the author of Practical Software Estimation which was recently published by Addison Wesley. It is interviews like this that remind of why I started SPaMCAST. I enjoyed the discussion and you will get a ton out of it.