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 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.
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Web Site:  http://www.systemsguild.com/
Email:  lister@acm.org

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The 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.

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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".

Show 28 features Part Two of an interview with Ivar Jacobson, author, pundit and one of the creators of UML.  The discussion covered topics ranging from methodologies to his new concept, practices.   If process improvement and methodology are important to you, this is an important interview full of new concepts.

An abridged version of Mr. Jacobson’s Wikipedia biography notes that he is a Swedish computer scientist he holds a Masters of Electrical Engineering at Chalmers Institute of Technology in Gothenburg and a Ph.D. from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.

In 1967 he proposed the use of software components in the development of the new generation of software controlled telephone switches Ericsson was developing. In doing this he invented sequence diagrams, and developed collaboration diagrams. He also applied state transition diagrams to describe the message flow between the components.

At Ericsson he also invented use cases as a way to specify functional software requirements.

In April 1987 he quit Ericsson and started Objective Systems. A majority stake of the company was acquired by Ericsson in 1991 (you can run but  . . .), and the company was renamed to Objectory AB.

In October 1995 Ericsson divested Objectory to Rational Software [1] and Ivar started working with Grady Booch and James Rumbaugh to first create the UML, and later develop the Rational Unified Process.

In mid 2003 Ivar formed Ivar Jacobson International (IJI) which is an umbrella company for Ivar Jacobson Consulting (IJC) which operates across 4 continents with offices in the UK, US (West and East Coast), Scandinavia, China, Korea, Singapore and Australia.

In November 2005, Jacobson announced the Essential Unified Process or “EssUP" for short. EssUP is a new “Practice" centric software development process that stands on the shoulders of modern but established software development best practice. It is a fresh new start integrating successful practices sourced from the three leading process camps: the unified process camp, the agile methods camp and the process maturity camp. Each one of them contributes different capabilities: structure, agility and process improvement.

Ivar has described EssUP as a "super light and agile" RUP and IJC have integrated EssUP into Microsoft Visual Studio Team System and Eclipse.

Check out http://www.ivarjacobson.com   and

http://www.ivarblog.com/

 
The essay for this cast is titled “Social Media and Process Improvement."  The essay discusses the impact of social media on the practice of process improvement.  The text of the essay can be found at www.tcagley.wordpress.com.  Comments and corrections are welcome.

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Future Events and the next . . .

I have a couple of free webinars coming up in early 2008.  The first is “Getting Performance Improvement Out of Your Software Process Improvement" on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT

And the second is titled “A Cost Effective Approach to Enterprise Wide Software Process Improvement" May 22nd, 2008 at 10:00 am - 11:30 am Eastern Time

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The Software Process and Measurement Cast 29 will feature an interview with Murali Chemuturi on estimation.  Murali’s take on estimation is razor sharp and will be a valuable addition to your knowledge base.  Your thoughts and comments would be a welcome addition . . .

Show 27 features part one of an interview with Ivar Jacobson, author, pundit and one of the creators of UML.  The discussion covered topics ranging from methodologies to his new concept, practices.   If process improvement and methodology are important to you, this is an important interview full of new concepts.

An abridged version of Mr. Jacobson’s Wikipedia biography notes that he is a Swedish computer scientist he holds a Masters of Electrical Engineering at Chalmers Institute of Technology in Gothenburg and a Ph.D. from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.

In 1967 he proposed the use of software components in the development of the new generation of software controlled telephone switches Ericsson was developing. In doing this he invented sequence diagrams, and developed collaboration diagrams. He also applied state transition diagrams to describe the message flow between the components.

At Ericsson he also invented use cases as a way to specify functional software requirements.

In April 1987 he quit Ericsson and started Objective Systems. A majority stake of the company was acquired by Ericsson in 1991 (you can run but  . . .) , and the company was renamed to Objectory AB.

In October 1995 Ericsson divested Objectory to Rational Software [1] and Ivar started working with Grady Booch and James Rumbaugh to first create the UML, and later develop the Rational Unified Process.

In mid 2003 Ivar formed Ivar Jacobson International (IJI) which is an umbrella company for Ivar Jacobson Consulting (IJC) which operates across 4 continents with offices in the UK, US (West and East Coast), Scandinavia, China, Korea, Singapore and Australia.

In November 2005, Jacobson announced the Essential Unified Process or “EssUP" for short. EssUP is a new “Practice" centric software development process that stands on the shoulders of modern but established software development best practice. It is a fresh new start integrating successful practices sourced from the three leading process camps: the unified process camp, the agile methods camp and the process maturity camp. Each one of them contributes different capabilities: structure, agility and process improvement.

Ivar has described EssUP as a "super light and agile" RUP and IJC have integrated EssUP into Microsoft Visual Studio Team System and Eclipse.

Check out http://www.ivarjacobson.com   and

http://www.ivarblog.com/

 

The essay for this cast is titled “We Are All Futurists."  The essay discusses the basis for predicting the future (can you say estimation) and why some people shy away from being a futurist.  The text of the essay can be found at www.tcagley.wordpress.com.  Comments and corrections are welcome.

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I have a couple of free webinars coming up in early 2008.  The first is “Getting Performance Improvement Out of Your Software Process Improvement" on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT

And the second is titled “A Cost Effective Approach to Enterprise Wide Software Process Improvement" May 22nd, 2008 at 10:00 am - 11:30 am Eastern Time

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The next Software Process and Measurement Cast will be a special show.  Cast 28 will feature part two of the interview with Ivar Jacobson.  Your thoughts and comments would be a welcome addition . . .
 

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SPaMCAST 25 - Booch, Omnibus Framework

A few hours late . . . for some reason Audacity and Vista had a wrestling match this afternoon.  A couple of reinstalls later we are back in action however I think the interview and essay might be the some of the best of year one! Show 25 features an interview with Grady Booch.  The interview covers topics ranging from high ceremony processes, anarchy, and organizational governance to virtual worlds.  Humboldt Curve and even Moore’s Law even make appearances. 

Grady is recognized internationally for his innovative work on software architecture and software engineering. A renowned visionary, he has devoted his life's work to improving the effectiveness of software developers worldwide. Grady served as Chief Scientist of Rational Software Corporation since its founding in 1981 and continues to serve in that capacity within IBM. Grady is one of the original authors of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and was also one of the original developers of several of Rational's products. Grady has served as architect and architectural mentor for numerous complex software-intensive systems around the world in just about every domain imaginable.

Grady is the author of six best-selling books, including the UML Users Guide and the seminal Object-Oriented Analysis with Applications. He has published several hundred articles on software engineering, including papers published in the early '80s that originated the term and practice of object-oriented design (OOD), plus papers published in the early 2000's that originated the term and practice of collaborative development environments (CDE).

At random times, the laws of physics do not apply to him. He is not dead yet.

Check out www.booch.com/architecture/

Contact Grady at architecture@booch.com

The essay for this cast is titled “Omnibus Frameworks, Collaboration and Social Media."  The essay wrestles with balancing frameworks, collaboration and a new world order in process improvement.   Humans are generally social by nature, IT personnel are no different (although the stereotype indicates differently) the new focus on social media whether in second life, Twitter or other platforms are tools that will let you break down high ceremony processes into more manageable ‘practices.’   The shift from one size fits all frameworks to highly granular practices will allow you to shift control closer to work and support usage via social media tools.  The text of the essay can be found at www.tcagley.wordpress.com.  Comments and corrections are welcome.

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Future Events and the next . . .

I have a couple of free webinars coming up in early 2008.  The first is “Getting Performance Improvement Out of Your Software Process Improvement" on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT

And the second is titled “A Cost Effective Approach to Enterprise Wide Software Process Improvement" May 22nd, 2008 at 10:00 am - 11:30 am Eastern Time

More information and registration information can be found at http://www.itmpi.org/webinars/

Next Software Process and Measurement Cast:

The next Software Process and Measurement Cast will be a special show.  Cast 26 will be a retrospective of the past year highlighting SPaMCAST’s first year.  Your thoughts and comments  would be a welcome addition . . .