The interview on Show 62 is with Tom Graves.  We discussed enterprise architecture.  Enterprise architecture is more than an IT phenomenon, architecture defines the enterprise.  This was a great interview.

Tom Graves has been an independent consultant for almost three decades, in business transformation, enterprise architecture and knowledge management. Based in Britain, His clients in Europe, Australia and the USA cover a broad range of industries including banking, utilities, logistics, engineering, media, telecoms, research, defence and government. He has a special interest in architecture for non-IT-centric enterprises, and integration between IT-based and non-IT-based services.

Contact information:
Email:        tom@tetradian.com
Website:     http://weblog.tomgraves.org/
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The essay is titled part 2 of my essay “Using Functional Metrics in Agile Estimation”.  The essay explains how to integrate the discipline of functional metrics into agile metrics techniques.


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The next Software Process and Measurement Cast will feature an interview with Paul Byrnes of ISD.  We discussed how the CMMI and process improvement fit in today’s economic environment. 

Show 61 concludes 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.

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Website: http://www.twygrove.net/

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The essay is titled “Using Functional Metrics in Agile Estimation, Part 1".  In the essay we begin exploring how to synthesize different methodologies and frameworks to create a process that is better than the sum of its parts and get better estimates to boot.

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The next Software Process and Measurement Cast is an interview with Tom Graves.  We discussed architecture and how architecture affects every part of the organization.  Very powerful stuff.

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.

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Website: http://metricsacceptance.net

The essay is titled “Involvement versus Focus”.  I discussed the fact focus is important but not sufficient to affect change in todays IT environment.

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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.

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Email: philip.stubbington@ntlworld.com
Website: http://www.twygrove.net/

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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.

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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] net
Website: http://thecommandline.net

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The essay is short (12 words) and talks about relevance and irrelevance.  Here too more promised in the future

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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.

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Website:  http://joescho.home.comcast.net/~joescho/3/j/mybio.htm

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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.

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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.net
Phone: (610) 232-5203

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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.

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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 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.com
Her website is www.estherderby.com

Links to her books are below:
Agile Retrospectives Making Teams Great    http://bit.ly/2lU8QT
Behind Closed Doors Management   http://bit.ly/h8LfD
Note that Esther co-authored “Behind Closed Doors Management” with Johanna Rothman in SPaMCAST 23  -- check it out at    http://bit.ly/8mol

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The 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.

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Are 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).

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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

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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.

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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