“Agile Productivity Metrics” Keynote
Address, Better Software Conference, Las Vegas, June, 2006
“Excess Friction – How Fast Deadlines Can Slow You
Down and Ruin Your Life,” Boston SPIN, January, 2006
“Excess Friction – When Deadlines Kill Process &
Ruin Your Life,” Keynote Address, New Jersey SEPG, October,
2005; Allstate Insurance Co., November 2005, Chicago, IL; Fidelity
Investments, November 2005, Boston, MA
“Agile Metrics,” Workshop instructed by Michael Mah
and Joshua Kerievsky, SD Best Practices, Boston, MA
"Agile Management Methods - 'Old Goats vs. Young Bucks' -
A Young Goat's Observations on Metrics and Deadlines," keynote
address, Chicago SPIN, June 2005; Boston SPIN, February, 2005;
Atlanta SPIN, January, 2005; DCI PM Conference December, 2004,
Orlando, FL; New Jersey SPIN, November, 2004; New York City SPIN,
September, 2004 & Thoughtworks Inc. Conference, June, 2004,
Chicago, IL
"The Making of the Agile Leader," DCI's
Project Management Conference, December 2004, Orlando FL.
"Agile Programming Case Study," Panelist,
Securities Industry Automation Association/NYC SPIN, October 2004,
New York City.
"Measurement and Negotiation Strategies for
Agile Executives," Cutter Consortium Annual Summit, May 2004,
Boston, MA
"Estimating, Scheduling and Control of High
Risk, Highly Critical Projects," Central Massachusetts PMI,
April, 2004, Marlboro, MA
"Making Risk Your Ally," Ocean State PMI,
January, 2004, Providence, RI & the DCI Enterprise Project
Management Conference, August 2003, New York, NY.
"Software Estimation and Project Conflict –
Changing the Game in a Down Economy," feature presentation
at ASM/SM 2003, June 2003, San Jose, CA.
"Negotiation Bootcamp – Advanced Techniques
for the Software Manager", ASM/SM 2003, June 2003, San Jose,
CA
"Why Size Matters", A discussion of sizing
methods, NYC SPIN May 2003 meeting.
"Negotiating Ugly: What’s Fair About
Service Levels in Applications Outsourcing?" Sourcing Interest
Group’s October 2002 Conference, Orlando, FL.
"Deadline Driven Project Estimation,"
Chubb Symposium, October 2002, Warren, NJ.
"Effective Negotiation for IT Project Managers",
and "Metrics, Benchmarks, and Project Estimation," DCI
Project Manager Conference, October, 2002, Boston, MA.
"Software Estimation and Negotiation –
Changing the Game in a Down Economy," September 2002 Boston
SPIN meeting.
"Adaptive Software Management – Strategies
During an Economic Downturn," April 2002 Business-IT Strategies
E-Mail Advisor, Cutter Consortium.
"A Conversation with Watts Humphrey,"
Keynote Address at SEPG 2002, Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering
Process Group Conference, Feb 2002. Phoenix, AZ.
"Deadline-Driven Software Project Estimation
– Negotiating Trade-offs and Risk," Ocean State PMI,
March 19, 2002; also presented at Chicago SPIN, Chicago, IL and
City SPIN, New York City, NY in January, 2002.
"Deadlines, Defects and Risk; Managing the
Three Headed Dragon," Keynote Address at QAI Canada, Toronto,
September 24, 2001; also presented at ASM/SM 2002, February, 2002,
Anaheim, CA.
"Keeping Your ADM Supplier Focused," TPI
Partner Program, Short Hills, NJ, September 20-21, 2000.
"When Fixed Deadlines Meet Changing Requirements:
Keeping Sane in an Insane World," SM/ASM 2000 Conference,
San Jose, CA, March 7, 2000 and the New Jersey SPIN, June 21,
2000.
"Software Projects in Crisis; Dealing with
Dynamics of Imposed Deadlines," Boston SPIN, October 19,
1999, Boston, MA.
"Software Projects in Crisis; Dealing with
Dynamics of Imposed Deadlines," Practical Software Quality
Techniques Conference – North, St. Paul, MN, October 5,
1999.
"The Devils In the Details; Aligning Outsource
Expectations and Managing Risks," SIG Conference –
Scottsdale, AZ, September 30, 1999; also presented at the SM/ASM
2000 Organizer Conference, San Jose, CA, March 8, 2000, the TPI
Partner Program, Atlanta, GA, March 15-16, 2000 and the Summit
2000 Conference, Boston, MA, April 10-12, 2000
