Category: Management

“Inside-Out”: IEEE presentation in Longmont (09/02/08) »

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 [...]

Self-defeating choices in IT project management »

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 [...]

Using a maintenance architect »

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 [...]

Latest column up: distributed development (part 2) »

My latest Baseline column is up, discussing how to make a distributed software development project work.  ..bruce..

Pitfalls of distributed development »

My latest Baseline column is up, talking about the challenges of a geographically-distributed software development project. Take a look.  ..bruce..