By bfwebster on Aug 26, 2008 in IT Project Management, Main, Management, Methodology, Quality assurance | 1 Comment
On September 2nd, I’ll be speaking at a meeting of the Denver IEEE Reliability Society. It will be held at 5:30 pm in the Seagate Building in Longmont (CO), on Nelson Road between 75th Rd and Airport Rd. Here’s my abstract of the talk: INSIDE-OUT: Organizations too often treat software reliability as an ‘after the [...]
By bfwebster on Aug 15, 2008 in Articles, Baseline, Main, Management, Surviving Complexity | 0 Comments
I have a new Baseline column up on the tendency of large organizations to reject the best solutions for a troubled IT project: The consultants, usually with the help of the employees in the trenches, would use their time, effort, and expertise to analyze the system under development or in production. They would arrive at [...]
By bfwebster on Jul 25, 2008 in Architecture, Articles, Baseline, Main, Maintenance, Management | 0 Comments
My lastest Baseline column is up, in which I argue that setting up one or more maintenance architects within an enterprise can help reduce maintenance costs while at the same time providing a training path for chief software architects. Let me know what you think. Sorry for the lack of postings here; I’ve actually been [...]
By bfwebster on Jul 17, 2008 in Articles, Baseline, Development, Main, Management | 0 Comments
My latest Baseline column is up, discussing how to make a distributed software development project work. ..bruce..
By bfwebster on Jul 7, 2008 in Articles, Baseline, Development, IT Project Management, Main, Management, Pitfalls | 0 Comments
My latest Baseline column is up, talking about the challenges of a geographically-distributed software development project. Take a look. ..bruce..