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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

This collection of presentations, briefings, journal and conference papers, essays, and book content has been used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) written and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems and other business and... Read more →

Cybersecurity in the Modern World - A Compendium of Resources

Finished writing a "cybersecurity for contract specialist" course for US Coast Guard. Like all course development work, the research is the starting point and a learning experience. While many of these documents are for federal acquisition shops, the NIST SP's... Read more →

Project Management of Product Development

There's a popular fallacy in the agile community of products over projects. This, of course, is based on the lack of knowledge of Managerial Finance, Systems Engineering and Product Development principles and processes. Here's a chart from an upcoming meeting... Read more →

What's in a Domain?

When I hear about a process, a procedure, a tool, a method, an idea, and even an anti-process like #NoEstimates, I first ask in what domain is this applicable? And when the answer comes back, software I suspect the speaker... Read more →

Learning Is Now More Important Than Knowledge

When I encounter a "subject matter expert," I've now learned to assess if this person is a "knowledge holder," or a "learning individual." This is what informed that "learning." This came to my from a friend and neighbor who is... Read more →

It's August 1972

Alan Kay's 1972 paper "A Personal Computer for Children of All Ages," has come true in many ways. The paper shows childern looking at the Dynabook at a pitcure of a spacecraft. There are several Google Nexus's ads where children... Read more →

It's Finally Come True

Saw an ad for the Google tablet with kids on a play ground looking things up and interacting with each other. Here's a picture of a mockup of Dynabook. The paper that described the operation of this "tablet" computer is... Read more →

Lijit casues problems in IE 8

I removed the Lijit search engine for now. It causes IE8 to show a blank and throw a Java script error. Thank you Microsoft. Chrome and FireFox work fine of course. Read more →

The Ideal PM Tool Set

Over on PMHut, there is a semi-commercial post by Andrew Filev titled What Would an Ideal Project Management Tool Look Like? What's interesting at first is Andrew doesn't mention anything about "managing projects." Here's what I want a tool set... Read more →

Software Engineering is Dead?

Tom DeMarco has an opinion piece in IEEE Software titled, Software Engineering: An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone? He conjectures that 40 years after the NATO Conference on Software Engineering where software engineering was first proposed, DeMarco wonders... Read more →