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: umarji@gmail.comWebsite: 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 spamcastinfo@gmail.com• 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: philip.stubbington@ntlworld.comWebsite: 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 spamcastinfo@gmail.com• 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 spamcastinfo@gmail.com• 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: jrschof@sandia.govWebsite: 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 spamcastinfo@gmail.com• 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: bill.phifer@verizon.netPhone: (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 spamcastinfo@gmail.com• 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: Judy.Bond@bondteaminc.comwww.bondteaminc.com(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 spamcastinfo@gmail.com• 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 derby@estherderby.comHer 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 spamcastinfo@gmail.com• 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 CJonesIII@cs.com 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 spamcastinfo@gmail.com • 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 spamcastinfo@gmail.com• 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: lister@acm.orgCheck 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 spamcastinfo@gmail.com• 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".