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.

Contact information:
Email: philip.stubbington@ntlworld.com
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.

Contact Information
Email: umarji@gmail.com
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!