Anybody in the USA who has not just landed from Mars will know what I am about to write about…for those of you outside of the USA, suffice it to say that a major government initiative’s web site is currently a train-wreck, with inadequate performance to… more »

This is an interesting summary of a talk given by IBM/Rational and Agile delivery leader Scott Ambler. Some of his comments read as rather contentious, but there is more than a grain of truth to most of them... more »

I found this article today about the feasibility and viability of offshoring Business Analysis. The discussion begins with this sobering paragraph: Professor Albert Mehrabian’s communication model for verbal interaction states that for describing feelin… more »

This book and an associated collection of essays at 37 Signals has some very interesting thoughts about how to build software. more »

Remember; one person's cynicism is another person's realism... There is also this one... more »

Tyner Bain has a large pile of articles covering the vexed issue of Requirements Management. He is also a Scrum Master, which is a delivery approach that I have tried in the past with some success. more »

...is rearing its ugly head in my world, as I work on a sales pursuit in the Pacific North-West. The prospective client has a (self-admitted) poor track record in defining and managing requirements. Ever since I started work in I.T. 30 years (!) ago, req… more »

Now that I am studying for the PMP certification, I am working on understanding the difference between the Version 2 of the PMBOK and the Study Guide, which I used in 2003, and Version 3, which was adopted in 2007. In the process of examining this issue,… more »

...with a score of 85%. I can now use the letters ISTQB after my name. When I was growing up, it looked like a good idea to go into one of the following three areas of endeavour; the military, civil engineering or medicine, since in all of those areas it… more »

Here are some links about software testing that I have been looking at in the last 2 weeks: 1. STAR East and STAR West Here is a blog entry from a Microsoft attendee of STAR West 2007, with a summary of the events. 2. General Software Testing Th… more »