By bfwebster on May 21, 2012 in Books, IT Project Management, Main, Management, Recruiting, RISE, Software engineering | 1 Comment
[The first of a planned series of posts on "Readings in Software Engineering"] [Version 1.1 of this post, revised/extended on 05/22/2012] The Psychology of Computer Programming, Gerald M. Weinberg, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York, 1971. Hardbound, 288 pages. Personal acquisition date: 17 Oct 1978. Original edition out of print. The Psychology of Computer Programming [...]
By bfwebster on Mar 5, 2011 in Lawsuits, Main, Management, Technology | 0 Comments
John Markoff in the New York Times has a detailed article on the emergence of software tools to help in the analysis of electronic documents (and, one could easily presume, scanned and OCR’d physical documents) in litigation: Now, thanks to advances in artificial intelligence, “e-discovery” software can analyze documents in a fraction of the time [...]
By bfwebster on Dec 28, 2009 in IT project disputes, IT Project Management, Main, Management, Pitfalls, Risk management, Surviving Complexity | 1 Comment
[cross-posted from brucefwebster.com] Roger Sessions has published a white paper, “The IT Complexity Crisis: Danger and Opportunity” (PDF). It’s created a bit of a stir in tech circles, largely because Sessions estimates that “worldwide, we are already losing over USD 500 billion per month on IT failure, and the problem is getting worse” (page 1; [...]
By bfwebster on Jan 20, 2009 in Articles, Baseline, IT Project Management, Main, Management | 0 Comments
[Cross-posted from brucefwebster.com] I’m currently writing a series of columns for Baseline on how to deal with frozen or reduced IT budgets due to the current economic troubles. Here are the first two columns: Performing IT Project Triage Pulling the Plug on IT Project Next up: how to deal with personnel issues. ..bruce..
By bfwebster on Nov 3, 2008 in Articles, Baseline, IT Project Management, Main, Management, Surviving Complexity, Training | 0 Comments
I’ve written previously about the “Dead Sea effect“, in which your best IT engineers and managers leave over time, leaving behind an IT staff that is slowly becoming less competent and effective. Obviously, to counteract the Dead Sea effect, you want to hold onto your best IT people. My two latest Baseline columns talk about [...]