Manfred Bundschuh is an internationally recognized expert on software measurement, estimating and international standards, with more than 40 years IT experience, as an IT controller, consultant, and project manager. In addition, he has been teaching software engineering at the University of Applied Sciences in Cologne, Germany, for more than 25 years. For the last 5 years he has been president of the DASMA e.V., the metrics organization of German speaking countries.

Book information:
Springer (Publisher) has full info about the book incl. Table of contents and free chapter 2 as well as reviews by Peter Hill and Capers Jones:
Available at www.springer.com/978-3-540-68187-8
Contact information:
Email:  manfred.bundschuh@netcologne.de

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The essay for this cast is titled "The Fine Line” in which I ask you fine line between overhead to meet real information needs and overhead that saps efficiency

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Next Software Process and Measurement Cast:
The next Software Process and Measurement Cast will feature part two of my interview with Mike Cohn on agile estimation.

The interview in the Software Process and Measurement Cast 43 features the first part of a two part interview the Mike Cohn. Mike is the man when it comes to Story Points and agile estimation. Part two will be included in SPaMCAST 45.    

Mike Cohn is the founder of Mountain Goat Software, a process and project management consultancy and training firm. He is the author of Agile Estimating and Planning and User Stories Applied for Agile Software Development, as well as books on Java and C++ programming. With more than 20 years of experience, Mike has previously been a technology executive in companies of various sizes, from startup to Fortune 40. A frequent magazine contributor and conference speaker, Mike is a founding member of the Scrum Alliance and the Agile Alliance. He can be reached at mike@mountaingoatsoftware.com.

Contact information:
Web Site: http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/
Email:  mike@mountaingoatsoftware.com


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The essay is titled “Who’s Career Is It Anyway?”  The essay challenges you to think of yourself as your own brand and to take control of maintaining your brand and career.

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The essay for the software process and measurement cast 43 is titled “Compound the Interest in Process Improvement”. I am back on the soapbox touting the relationship between successful process improvement and marketing.

Future Events and the next Cast. . .

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:
The next Software Process and Measurement Cast will feature an interview with Manfred Bundschuh. Manfred and Carol Dekkers have just published their book “The IT Measurement Compendium”. One of the topics we explored was the link between sociology and measurement. If you measure don’t be caught without your ruler for this interview.