By bfwebster on Sep 24, 2008 in Articles, Baseline, Development, Management, Project Failure, Quality assurance, Surviving Complexity | 0 Comments
Obviously, I’ve been slow in posting here, since I’ve had two new columns go up at Baseline since I last posted. The first column, “Second Class Software Quality for Major IT Projects”, talks about the curious fact that organizations are willing to spend millions, tens of millions, even hundred of millions of dollars on major [...]
By bfwebster on Sep 11, 2008 in Main, Quality assurance | 0 Comments
As mentioned previously, I spoke last week at the Denver IEEE Reliabilty Society chapter meeting on an SQA-centric view of software development. I plan to develop this into a full-blown articles (or posting), but in the meantime, here is the slide presentation (PPT, 340KB) I used. Feel free to ask questions. ..bruce..
By bfwebster on Aug 26, 2008 in Main, Management, Quality assurance, Software engineering | 1 Comment
On September 2nd, I’ll be speaking at a meeting of the Denver IEEE Reliability Society. It will be held at 5:30 pm in the Seagate Building in Longmont (CO), on Nelson Road between 75th Rd and Airport Rd. Here’s my abstract of the talk: INSIDE-OUT: Organizations too often treat software reliability as an ‘after the [...]
By bfwebster on May 21, 2008 in Business, Competition, Main, Product development, Quality assurance, Software engineering, Surviving Complexity | 1 Comment
[Copyright 2008 by Bruce F. Webster. All rights reserved. Adapted from Surviving Complexity (forthcoming).] And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale. – William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act II, Scene vii. I have observed a pattern [...]
By bfwebster on Jan 23, 2008 in Main, Quality assurance, Software engineering | 1 Comment
Last Monday morning, I spent a few hours helping out on a church service project, where we’re turning an unfinished basement of a single mother’s townhouse into a bedroom+bathroom for her daughter. At this point, the basement has been framed out and sheetrock hung. My first task on Monday was to take a damp sponge [...]