"The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: What Agile Data is Telling us about Deadlines and Defects. (Updated!)" keynote address, Agile Development Practices Conference East, Orlando, FL, November 2010
"Rightsizing Your Project at Internet Speed" Pacific Northwest Quality Conference,
Portland OR, October, 2010
"Agile Versus Industry" Central Ohio Agile Association, May 2010
"Is Agile Keeping Its Promises? 3 Industry Case Studies on Time-to-Market, Productivity, and Quality" Rally Agile Success Tour, Raleigh, NC, June 2010
"Geography Matters: What Measurement Tells Us About Outsourcing, Agile Methods, and the Flat World" Cutter Consortium, SET - Conference 2010, Zurich, Switzerland, May, 2010
"The Good, the Bad and the Puzzling: The Agile Experience at 5 Companies (Updated!)" Nashua Scrum Club, April, 2010; OOP 2010 Conference, Munich, Germany, January, 2010
"Rightsizing Your Projects In a Down Economy" session address, Agile Development
Practices Conference, Orlando, FL, November, 2009; SQGNE, Burlington, MA, April 2010; Agile Development Practices Conference West, Las Vegas, NV, June 2010
"Geography Matters: What Measurement Tells Us About Outsourcing,
Agile Methods, and the Flat World" keynote address, Cutter Consortium, Latin America CIO Summit, Mexico City, October, 2009
"What Agile Learns from Waterfall...And What Waterfall Learns from Agile" Boston SPIN Meeting, October, 2008
"The Good, the Bad and the Rather Puzzling" Better Software Conference, Las Vegas, NV, June 2008
"Deadline Driven Estimation" Quality Assurance Association of CT, September 2008
"Cutter Consortium's Town Meeting: An Agile Chat," webinar, February 2008
"Measuring Agile in the Enterprise: 5 Success Factors for Large-Scale Agile Adoption" Agile 2008 Toronto Conference, August 2008
"Offshore Outsource Versus Onshore Agile: Measurement Insights from Around the Globe" Business Analyst World, Chicago, IL, October, 2007
"Is The World Really Flat? Measurement Insights from Around the World" SPI Ireland, March 2007, Galway, Ireland; NYC SPIN Meeting, October, 2007
"Agile Productivity Metrics: XP and Productivity Measures - What the Numbers Say" speaker, QSM User Conference, McLean, VA, September 2006; NYC SPIN Meeting, February 2007
"Software Estimation & Project Conflict - Changing the Game in a Down Economy" keynote address, Better Software Conference, Las Vegas, June, 2006
"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
"High Definition Software Measurement, Benchmarking for Process Improvement and Quality Management" presented and published in the proceedings of the Practical Software Quality Techniques Conference - South, San Antonio, TX, June 8-9, 1999.
"Software Projects in Crisis: Dealing with Imposed Deadlines" presented and published in the proceedings of the Project World 99 Conference, Boston, MA, May 17-21, 1999.
"Core Software Metrics: Their Role in Politics, Process, and Risk Management" presented at the SEPG 98 Conference, Chicago, IL, March 11, 1998.
"Software Metrics for Winning Proposals", presented and published in the Proceedings of the TPI Outsourcing Conference, Houston, December 4, 1997.
"Core Metrics for Software Development", presented at the Hudson Valley SPIN, November 6, 1997, Pleasantville, NY.
"Ranking Outsourcing Contractors: Using Software Metrics for Acquisition Management", presented and published in the Proceedings of the DCI Outsoucing Conference, Orlando, December 12, 1996.
"Controlling Software Development", presented at the Chicago SPIN on July 11, 1996, at the Boston SPIN on November 19, 1996, and at the Ottawa SPIN on November 21, 1996.
"Quantifying the Benefits of Reuse' Benchmark Metrics and ROI Numbers That Managers Need to Know", presented and published in the Proceedings of the Application Development Conference and Exposition, New York NY, March 6-8, 1996.
"Quantifying Process Productivity; Building Your Own Measurement Baselines", presented and published in the Proceedings of CASE World Boston, September 1992. Also Software World Toronto, March 1993.
