Herding Cats

The 5 Immutable Principles of Project Management

I spoke again this year Carnegie Mellon University on the topic of project management in the software development world. Not matter what method you use to develop the software needed by the project, for success these principles must be in... Read more →

A Cautionary Note

The history of our future is filled with... moon bases jet packs 200 mph cars but has no... cell phones, Internet, and no laptop computers Over the long haul, dramatic things happen to change the equation. Sunil Paul, quoted in... Read more →

Quote of the Day

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. - H. L. Mencken I'm attending a National Defense Industry Association conference on Program Management. I took a break to read some emails - you can... Read more →

CMMI and Agile Software Development are Orthogonal

There is one of those semi-heated discussions on an agile forum around CMMI, Agile and the confusion between them. Here's a summary from CMMI DEV V1.2. Note that the software development activities live in Engineering. An Update I'm presenting to... Read more →