Sun, 6 September 2009  The interview in SPaMCAST 67 is with Murali Chemuturi. Murali recently had his first book published titled Software Estimation Best Practices, Tools & Techniques: A Complete Guide for Software Project Estimators. In this edition of the Software Process and Measurement Cast we discussed estimation, the book and future plans. Murali offers a lot of practical advice on estimation during the interview. Good book, good interview . . . go buy a copy or two. The link to Amazon is http://bit.ly/2Hce25Murali has over thirty seven years of total experience out of which about twenty three years in information technology having worked in TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES for Five and half years and in ELECTRONICS COROPORATION OF INDIA LIMITED for Nineteen and half years. I had also worked in SATYAM COMPUTER SERVICES LTD., METAMOR GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LTD. and Vistaar eBusinesses Pvt Ltd. Designation at the time of final employment was that of Vice President Software Development at Vistaar e-Businesses Pvt. Ltd. Mumbai. Contact: Email: murali@chemuturi.com Website: www.chemuturi.com 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 a continuation of my essay titled "Traceability: A Radical Approach Based on User Involvement". Part two starts to get into the meat of tracability and scalability. Note I recently received a comment about not having access to the whole essay immediately. While the whole paper is drafted I do my final re-write as I record each section therefore the essay is not really complete until the last part is recorded. It is the way I write. Join the SPaMCAST’s community by joining the SPaMCAST Facebook page and get involved!!!! http://tinyurl.com/62z5el 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 Upcoming Speaking Engagements ITMPI webinar Process Improvement in a Multi-Model World September 15, 2009 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Eastern Time Model based process improvement typically has centered on a single model or framework as the lynch pin to control software process improvement within an organization. The use of a model or framework is an excellent means of reducing random activity unfortunately one model does not cover the whole organization. Process improvement has matured to a point where the span of control needs to be extended which suggests the use of more than one model (e.g. CMMI, ISO, ITIL and Business Process Re-engineering to name a few). This webinar with Tom Cagley will discuss how to manage process improvement in a complex, multi-model environment. More information - http://solutions.compaid.com/forms/WebinarB20090915?ProcessType=PreReg ISMA 4 Conference Boundaries, Boundaries Everywhere September 15, 2009 9:00 - 9:45 AM Identifying applications and project boundaries are critical to accurate and repeatable counts however the rules have a lot of flexibility. The presentation will evaluate a variety of types of applications to evaluate the impact of varied perspectives on application boundaries. The presentation will include at least one hands-on exercise to drive home the impact of boundaries. The ISMA conference will be held this September 13-16, 2009 at the Palmer House Hilton – Chicago, Illinois see More informaton - http://www.IFPUG.org Next Software Process and Measurement Cast: The interview in show 68 is with Neil Potter of The Process Group. We talked of CMMI, process improvement and how change programs fit into economic environment we find ourselves in today and will again someday in the future. Direct download: SPaMCAST_67_-_Chemuturi_Estimation_Book_Traceability_Part_2.mp3 Category: Estimation -- posted at: 7:37 PM Comments[0] |
Sun, 29 June 2008  Show 36 is part two of my interview with Phil Armour. The interview focused on estimation and just a bit of philosophy, powerful stuff that may change how you view estimation and the goal of software development. Phillip G. Armour is VP for Systems Development and a Senior Consultant at Corvus International Inc. Phil has been developing software for over thirty-five years. He has been a programmer, analyst, project manager, DBA, systems architect, process engineer, metrics engineer, consultant, and executive coach and has worked for organizations as diverse as United Airlines, Motorola, Argonne National Laboratory, General Dynamics, the IRS, the premier software consulting company in India, and the largest cellular service provider in Central West Africa. In the last fifteen years, Phil has personally taught software development techniques and management principles to over 20,000 developers, engineers, managers, and executives. Phil’s primary professional focus is currently in two related areas: software project estimation and software technical team development. Since 2000, Phil has been a contributing editor on ACM’s flagship magazine “Communications of the ACM” and writes a regular column entitled “The Business of Software” where he explores issues to do with the nature and challenges of modern software. He has been on the extended faculty at the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management and the Mendoza School of Business at the University of Notre Dame. Phil is also the author of “The Laws of Software Process” published by Auerbach in 2003. He is a member of ACM, IEEE, and the Project Management Institute. Telephone: (847)-438-1609
The essay for this cast is titled “Why Should You Care What Is Driving Change”. The essay is a reminder to process improvement personnel that to be effective you need to understand why you are making a change. I suggest that if you don’t understand the rationale for change, stop until you do. The text of the essay can be found at www.tcagley.wordpress.com. Comments and suggestions are welcome.
There are a number of ways to share your thoughts:
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Sun, 1 June 2008 Show 34 is the beginning of my interview with Phil Armour. I am calling this interview, “Estimation Ain’t Planning”. I must admit that I have been quoting this interview since I taped it. Amazingly powerful concepts, so powerful I decided to revisit estimation. Phillip G. Armour is VP for Systems Development and a Senior Consultant at Corvus International Inc. Phil has been developing software for over thirty-five years. He has been a programmer, analyst, project manager, DBA, systems architect, process engineer, metrics engineer, consultant, and executive coach and has worked for organizations as diverse as United Airlines, Motorola, Argonne National Laboratory, General Dynamics, the IRS, the premier software consulting company in India, and the largest cellular service provider in Central West Africa. In the last fifteen years, Phil has personally taught software development techniques and management principles to over 20,000 developers, engineers, managers, and executives.
Phil’s primary professional focus is currently in two related areas: software project estimation and software technical team development.
Since 2000, Phil has been a contributing editor on ACM’s flagship magazine “Communications of the ACM” and writes a regular column entitled “The Business of Software” where he explores issues to do with the nature and challenges of modern software. He has been on the extended faculty at the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management and the Mendoza School of Business at the University of Notre Dame.
Phil is also the author of “The Laws of Software Process” published by Auerbach in 2003. He is a member of ACM, IEEE, and the Project Management Institute.
Telephone: (847)-438-1609
The essay is titled “Estimation, Planning and Goals: All Different I Say!”. The essay explores the confusion of words used in project planning and control. The essay may be due to my long-term issue with a how words are used and misused, false levels of precision or just the fact that the process relating to the software engineering disciplines like estimation continue to prove to be difficult to implement regardless of the development method used. The text of the essay can be found at www.tcagley.wordpress.com. Comments and corrections are welcome. There are a number of ways to share your thoughts .
Future Events and the next . . . Conference season is beginning! I will be speaking at IFPUG’s 3rd Annual ISMA Conference and Fall Workshops Sunday, September 14 – Friday, September 19, 2008 at the Westin Arlington Gateway Hotel information at www.ifpug.org. The presentation is call “Counting Facebook” and will be on Friday September 19, 2008 at 10:25 AM - 11:25 AM, I am speaking at Quest Toronto 2008 Conference, September 22- 26, 2008, at the Hilton Hotel in Toronto, Canada. I will be presenting “Good Numbers Go Bad” on Wed Sept 24th from 1:30 - 2:30 pm and also joining in as a subject matter expert in the end of day solutions workshop. Information can be found at http://www.qaiquest.org/toronto/ Finally I will be speaking at the Northeast Quality Council 57th Conference. The conference is scheduled for October 14 – 15 , 2008 in Marlborough, Massachusetts at Best Western Royal Plaza. The presentation is titled “One Size Fits . . .Someone Other Than Me”. Information can be found at http://www.neqc.org/conference. Next Software Process and Measurement Cast: On the next SPaMCAST I will interview Charlene Li of Forrester Research, co-author of “Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies”. We talked about opinion how are social networks and strategies rewriting the organization and its relations to its customers. Direct download: SPaMCAST_34_-_Armour_Estimation_Aint_Planning_Not_The_Same.mp3 Category: Estimation -- posted at: 8:16 AM Comments[1] |
Sun, 4 May 2008  Show 32 is part two of my interview with Murali Chemuturi on the topic of estimation. You might think part two is just more of the same but think again. Murali has laid out some interesting theories and data. Mr Chemuturi has made a very gracious offer, for every comment SPaMCAST gets on Murali’s interview Murali has authorized me to send a PDF copy of his new book on estimation.
Mr. Chemuturi has over thirty four years of total experience out of which about 23 years have been spent in the field of information technology. Has worked at TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES for five and half years and at ELECTRONICS COROPORATION OF INDIA LIMITED for nineteen. Murali also worked at SATYAM COMPUTER SERVICES LTD., METAMOR GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LTD. and Vistaar eBusinesses Pvt Ltd. His CV includes numerous publications and he is the author of an upcoming book on estimation which I will review on a future Software Measurement and Process Cast.
Mr. Chemuturi can be contacted by email at murali@chemuturi.com or by phone at 91-40-27220771, 91-0-988-501-9461 and in the USA at 1- 347-394-3138. His web site can be found at http://www.effortestimator.com
The essay is an excerpt from “When Good Numbers Go Bad” titled “When Communication makes Good Numbers Go Bad”. The excerpt explores how poor communication can effect a metrics program (and is a bit of foreshadowing of a presentation I will be doing later this year (see below). The text of the essay can be found at www.tcagley.wordpress.com. Comments and corrections are welcome. There are a number of ways to share your thoughts . .
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 I have another webinar coming up in May. The webinar 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/
Conference season is beginning!
I will be speaking at IFPUG’s 3rd Annual ISMA Conference and Fall Workshops Sunday, September 14 – Friday, September 19, 2008 at the Westin Arlington Gateway Hotel information at www.ifpug.org. The presentation is call “Counting Facebook” and will be on Friday September 19, 2008 at 10:25 AM - 11:25 AM, I am speaking at Quest Toronto 2008 Conference, September 22- 26, 2008, at the Hilton Hotel in Toronto, Canada. I will be presenting “Good Numbers Go Bad” on Wed Sept 24th from 1:30 - 2:30 pm and also joining in as a subject matter expert in the end of day solutions workshop. Information can be found at http://www.qaiquest.org/toronto/
Finally I will be speaking at the Northeast Quality Council 57th Conference. The conference is scheduled for October 14 – 15 , 2008 in Marlborough, Massachusetts at Best Western Royal Plaza. The presentation is titled “One Size Fits . . .Someone Other Than Me”. Information can be found at http://www.neqc.org/conference.
Next Software Process and Measurement Cast: On the next SPaMCAST we will jump back into the interview with Rob Donnellan of Q/P Management Group covering a wide range of measurement and process improvement topics. Your thoughts and comments are always a welcome addition and remember I have Murali’s PDF with your name on it!
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Sun, 23 March 2008
Show 29 begins a two part interview with Murali Chemuturi on the topic of estimation. This is not the first time the Cast has examined estimation however I think you will find that Murali’s thoughts will add your knowledge base and might even spark heated debate.
Mr. Chemuturi can be contacted by email at murali@chemuturi.com or by phone at 91-40-27220771, 91-0-988-501-9461 and in the USA at 1- 347-394-3138. His web site can be found at http://www.effortestimator.com
The essay for this cast is titled “Responsibility, Got Some?. The essay discusses the evil alter ego of committees and consensus management. The text of the essay can be found at www.tcagley.wordpress.com. Comments and corrections are welcome. There are a number of ways to share your thoughts . .
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: On the next SPaMCAST I am trying something new. I am breaking up parts one and two of the interview with Murali and beginning a two part interview with Rob Donnellan of Q/P Management Group covering a wide range of measurement and process improvement topics. We will pick back up with Murali on show 32. Your thoughts and comments are always a welcome addition . . . Direct download: SPaMCAST_29_-_Chemuturi_Estimation_Responsibility.mp3 Category: Estimation -- posted at: 5:00 PM Comments[1] |
Wed, 9 January 2008  SPaMCAST SIX Estimation Interview with Michael Bragen The Software Process and Measurmeent Cast Six continues the the theme arc on estimation with a conversation with Michael Bragen of Software Productivitity Research, LLC (SPR). This is an interview where having a pencil and paper to take notes will come in handy (at least it did for me and I was there). SPR's website is www.spr.com The essay in this cast is titled 'An Estimate Is Just A Number, Right?' It is way too easy to forget that an estimate carries alot of wieght even when it is given off-the-cuff. The full text version of the essay can be found at www.tcagley.wordpress.com. Next Cast: The next cast will be posted on Sunday April 22 (programing notes on April 15) and will feature an interview with Kenji Hiranabe in which we will talk about using Mind Maps in Agile projects. The essay I hae planned will be titled 'Whay Are Requirements So Hard To Get Right'. Your thoughts on the topic as I write the document will be appreciated (afterwards also). Currently I have four more interviews in the 'can' after Kenji with names that include Finegold, Herron, Ferdinandi and Symons. Other are being lined up! If you have a suggestion please let me know at spacastinfo@gmail.com! Events: IFPUG Spring Workshops and Functional Size Summit Better Software Conference and Expo Contact SPaMCAST at spamcastinfo@gmail.com Direct download: SPaMCAST_SIX_Estimation_Interview_with_Michael_Bragen.mp3 Category: Estimation -- posted at: 11:36 AM |
Sun, 29 July 2007 
Software Process and Measurement Show 14 features an interview with M.A. Parthasarathy discussing estimation and his new book “Practical Software Estimation Function Point Methods for Insourced and Outsourced Projects." Partha is the Head of Outsourcing Academy at the Strategic Global Sourcing unit at Infosys. In this role, he is responsible for enabling and developing competencies of the SGS Delivery team, specific to large outsourcing engagements. Partha can be reached at Partha@infosys.com. The essay for this cast is a review of Partha’s book “Practical Software Estimation". If you skip the review (really bad choice) just remember this is book is one to buy and use. The text of this commentary can be found at my personal blog, www.tcagley.wordpress.com. Remember that comments and feedback are welcome! There are a number of ways to share your thoughts . . . 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 It is my intent to share all emails and voice messages! Future Events: On August 23 I will present a DCG / CAI Webinar: titled Measure Twice, Implement Once at 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EDT . See http://www.davidconsultinggroup.com/news/calendar.aspx for details. In September, I will be presenting ‘Life on the Edge: Counting Weird Things on the Web’ on Thursday September 13th at 11:20 at the International Software Measurement and Analysis Conference in News from Friends of SPaMCAST I got a note from Kenji Hiranabe, I interviewed Kenji in SPaMCAST 7. We discussed agile and mind maps. He provided an update on some of the things he is up to – 1. Ruby and Agile combination rant. I have a chance to talk with Matz, the father of Ruby. We talk about Ruby and Agile and video taped and added English subtitles. http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/06/ruby-x-agile 2. Sustainable Software Development, book review mind map. Great book. I made a fancy mind map of the concept. The two can be found in my English blog. http://jude-users.com/en/modules/weblog/index.php?user_id=5 Next Software Process and Measurement Cast: The next Software Process and Measurement Cast features an interview with Scott Goldfarb on benchmarks. This interview included tons information for people interested in software metrics. Direct download: SPaMCAST_14_Parthasarathy_Estimation_Book_Review.mp3 Category: Estimation -- posted at: 1:56 PM Comments[0] |
Sat, 24 March 2007  The Software Process and Measurement Cast (SPaMCAST) Five features an interview with Ian Brown of Booz Allen Hamilton covering the topic of estimation. Project estimation (whether software, hardware, network or research projects) is one the hardest areas organizations face when planning or executing work. Ian provides serious advice for implementing an estimation program.
SPaMCAST Five includes a guest essay by Paul Laberge of CCH Canada on fitting PPQA audit to an organization to ensure efficiency and effectiveness. If you have an idea for a guest essay contact Tom Cagley at spamcastinfo@gmail.com, the Software Process and Measurement Cast welcomes guest essays!
Finally this cast includes comments on Putts Law. Putts Law states that - those that understand do not manage and those that manage do not understand. I am worried about the thought of using project managers wholesale without technical competency. Does this casue a competency inversion? What are the attributes of a perfect project manager? Send your comment to spamcastinfo@gmail.com.
Next Cast:
The next cast continues the estimation theme arc on estimation with an interview with Michael Bragen of Software Productivity Research, LLC. The essay for the cast is tentatively titled, An Estimate is Just A Number, Right? Direct download: SPaMCAST_Five_Interview_with_Ian_Brown_on_Estimation.mp3 Category: Estimation -- posted at: 5:52 PM Comments[0] |
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