Show 31 features an interview with Scott Ambler of IBM discussing Test Driven Development and other Agile topics.    Scott W. Ambler is the Practice Leader Agile Development with IBM Rational and he works with IBM customers around the world to improve their software processes.  He is the founder of the Agile Modeling (AM), Agile Data (AD), Agile Unified Process (AUP), and Enterprise Unified Process (EUP) methodologies.  Scott is the (co-)author of 19 books, including Refactoring Databases, Agile Modeling, Agile Database Techniques, The Object Primer 3rd Edition, and The Enterprise Unified Process.  Scott is a senior contributing editor with Dr. Dobbâs Journal.    Check out Mr. amblerâs blogs at: Personal home page: www.ibm.com/rational/bios/ambler.html Agile at Scale blog: www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/ambler.   The essay for this cast is titled âAre Words a Predictor of Change Adoptionâ.  The essay explores the relationship between words and what they predict about success in process improvement.  The text of the essay can be found at www.tcagley.wordpress.com.  Comments and corrections are welcome. There are a number of ways to share your thoughts . . Email SPaMCAST at spamcastinfo@gmail.comVoice messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111Twitter â www.twitter.com/tcagleyBLOG â www.tcagley.wordpress.com   Future Events and the next . . . I have a couple of free webinars coming up in early 2008.  The first is âGetting Performance Improvement Out of Your Software Process Improvementâ on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT And the second is titled âA Cost Effective Approach to Enterprise Wide Software Process Improvementâ May 22nd, 2008 at 10:00 am - 11:30 am Eastern Time More information and registration information can be found at http://www.itmpi.org/webinars/ Next Software Process and Measurement Cast: On the next SPaMCAST I will be airing part 2 of the interview with Murali Chemuturi on estimation and software sizing.  To describe the interview I will just say âdamn!â and let you dive in. Your thoughts and comments are always a welcome addition . . .    

SPaMCAST 30 â Donnellan, Metrics Programs, Passion and Success   Show 30 begins a two part interview with Rob Donnellan on the topic of metrics programs.     Rob Donnellan, IT Excellence Value Builder, has more than 28 years of industry experience.   Rob delivers executive-level "IT Excellence" consulting.  Prior to joining Q/P Management Group, Rob was a Director with META Group, Nautilus Advisors (an outsourcing consultancy), and Cap Gemini.  His key responsibilities have been to develop next-generation consulting services, and to lead IT management consulting projects primarily devoted to process improvement, IT portfolio management, IT diagnosis, performance engineering/measurement, and benchmarking.  He has been a regular speaker for industry organizations such as the APQC, PMI, SPIN, SIM, IFPUG, and The Balanced Scorecard Collaborative.  He holds a Masters Degree in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a B.A. in Liberal Arts from the University of Connecticut. Mr. Donnellan can be contacted by email at rob.donnellan@qpmg.com or by phone at (401) 783-3005.  Q/P Management Groupâs web site can be found at http://www.qpmg.com/.   The essay for this cast is titled âPassion and Successâ.  The essay discusses the relationship between passion and success in process improvment.  The text of the essay can be found at www.tcagley.wordpress.com.  Comments and corrections are welcome. There are a number of ways to share your thoughts . . Email SPaMCAST at spamcastinfo@gmail.comVoice messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111Twitter â www.twitter.com/tcagleyBLOG â www.tcagley.wordpress.com   Future Events and the next . . . I have a couple of free webinars coming up in early 2008.  The first is âGetting Performance Improvement Out of Your Software Process Improvementâ on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT And the second is titled âA Cost Effective Approach to Enterprise Wide Software Process Improvementâ May 22nd, 2008 at 10:00 am - 11:30 am Eastern Time More information and registration information can be found at http://www.itmpi.org/webinars/ Next Software Process and Measurement Cast: On the next SPaMCAST I will be airing an interview I did with Scott Ambler on scaling test driven development.  Agilistas, this one is for you!  Part 2 of the interview with Rob will air on show 33. Your thoughts and comments are always a welcome addition . . .    

Show 29 begins a two part interview with Murali Chemuturi on the topic of estimation.  This is not the first time the Cast has examined estimation however I think you will find that Muraliâs thoughts will add your knowledge base and might even spark heated debate.    Mr. Chemuturi has over thirty four years of total experience out of which about fourteen years have been spent in the field of information technology.  Has worked at TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES for five and half years and at ELECTRONICS COROPORATION OF INDIA LIMITED for nineteen. Murali also worked at SATYAM COMPUTER SERVICES LTD., METAMOR GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LTD. and Vistaar eBusinesses Pvt Ltd.  His CV includes numerous publications and he is the author of an upcoming book on estimation which I will review on a future Software Measurement and Process Cast.    Mr. Chemuturi can be contacted by email at murali@chemuturi.com or by phone at 91-40-27220771, 91-0-988-501-9461 and in the USA at 1- 347-394-3138.  His web site can be found at http://www.effortestimator.com   The essay for this cast is titled âResponsibility, Got Some?â.  The essay discusses the evil alter ego of committees and consensus management.  The text of the essay can be found at www.tcagley.wordpress.com.  Comments and corrections are welcome. There are a number of ways to share your thoughts . . Email SPaMCAST at spamcastinfo@gmail.comVoice messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111Twitter â www.twitter.com/tcagleyBLOG â www.tcagley.wordpress.com   Future Events and the next . . . I have a couple of free webinars coming up in early 2008.  The first is âGetting Performance Improvement Out of Your Software Process Improvementâ on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT And the second is titled âA Cost Effective Approach to Enterprise Wide Software Process Improvementâ May 22nd, 2008 at 10:00 am - 11:30 am Eastern Time More information and registration information can be found at http://www.itmpi.org/webinars/ Next Software Process and Measurement Cast: On the next SPaMCAST I am trying something new.  I am breaking up parts one and two of the interview with Murali and beginning a two part interview with Rob Donnellan of Q/P Management Group covering a wide range of measurement and process improvement topics.  We will pick back up with Murali on show 32. Your thoughts and comments are always a welcome addition . . .

Show 28 features Part Two of an interview with Ivar Jacobson, author, pundit and one of the creators of UML.  The discussion covered topics ranging from methodologies to his new concept, practices.   If process improvement and methodology are important to you, this is an important interview full of new concepts. An abridged version of Mr. Jacobsonâs Wikipedia biography notes that he is a Swedish computer scientist he holds a Masters of Electrical Engineering at Chalmers Institute of Technology in Gothenburg and a Ph.D. from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. In 1967 he proposed the use of software components in the development of the new generation of software controlled telephone switches Ericsson was developing. In doing this he invented sequence diagrams, and developed collaboration diagrams. He also applied state transition diagrams to describe the message flow between the components. At Ericsson he also invented use cases as a way to specify functional software requirements. In April 1987 he quit Ericsson and started Objective Systems. A majority stake of the company was acquired by Ericsson in 1991 (you can run but  . . .), and the company was renamed to Objectory AB. In October 1995 Ericsson divested Objectory to Rational Software [1] and Ivar started working with Grady Booch and James Rumbaugh to first create the UML, and later develop the Rational Unified Process. In mid 2003 Ivar formed Ivar Jacobson International (IJI) which is an umbrella company for Ivar Jacobson Consulting (IJC) which operates across 4 continents with offices in the UK, US (West and East Coast), Scandinavia, China, Korea, Singapore and Australia. In November 2005, Jacobson announced the Essential Unified Process or âEssUPâ for short. EssUP is a new âPracticeâ centric software development process that stands on the shoulders of modern but established software development best practice. It is a fresh new start integrating successful practices sourced from the three leading process camps: the unified process camp, the agile methods camp and the process maturity camp. Each one of them contributes different capabilities: structure, agility and process improvement. Ivar has described EssUP as a "super light and agile" RUP and IJC have integrated EssUP into Microsoft Visual Studio Team System and Eclipse. Check out http://www.ivarjacobson.com   and http://www.ivarblog.com/  The essay for this cast is titled âSocial Media and Process Improvement.â  The essay discusses the impact of social media on the practice of process improvement.  The text of the essay can be found at www.tcagley.wordpress.com.  Comments and corrections are welcome. There are a number of ways to share your thoughts . . Email SPaMCAST at spamcastinfo@gmail.comVoice messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111Twitter â www.twitter.com/tcagleyBLOG â www.tcagley.wordpress.com   Future Events and the next . . . I have a couple of free webinars coming up in early 2008.  The first is âGetting Performance Improvement Out of Your Software Process Improvementâ on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT And the second is titled âA Cost Effective Approach to Enterprise Wide Software Process Improvementâ May 22nd, 2008 at 10:00 am - 11:30 am Eastern Time More information and registration information can be found at http://www.itmpi.org/webinars/ Next Software Process and Measurement Cast: The Software Process and Measurement Cast 29 will feature an interview with Murali Chemuturi on estimation.  Muraliâs take on estimation is razor sharp and will be a valuable addition to your knowledge base.  Your thoughts and comments would be a welcome addition . . .

Show 27 features part one of an interview with Ivar Jacobson, author, pundit and one of the creators of UML.  The discussion covered topics ranging from methodologies to his new concept, practices.   If process improvement and methodology are important to you, this is an important interview full of new concepts. An abridged version of Mr. Jacobsonâs Wikipedia biography notes that he is a Swedish computer scientist he holds a Masters of Electrical Engineering at Chalmers Institute of Technology in Gothenburg and a Ph.D. from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. In 1967 he proposed the use of software components in the development of the new generation of software controlled telephone switches Ericsson was developing. In doing this he invented sequence diagrams, and developed collaboration diagrams. He also applied state transition diagrams to describe the message flow between the components. At Ericsson he also invented use cases as a way to specify functional software requirements. In April 1987 he quit Ericsson and started Objective Systems. A majority stake of the company was acquired by Ericsson in 1991 (you can run but  . . .) , and the company was renamed to Objectory AB. In October 1995 Ericsson divested Objectory to Rational Software [1] and Ivar started working with Grady Booch and James Rumbaugh to first create the UML, and later develop the Rational Unified Process. In mid 2003 Ivar formed Ivar Jacobson International (IJI) which is an umbrella company for Ivar Jacobson Consulting (IJC) which operates across 4 continents with offices in the UK, US (West and East Coast), Scandinavia, China, Korea, Singapore and Australia. In November 2005, Jacobson announced the Essential Unified Process or âEssUPâ for short. EssUP is a new âPracticeâ centric software development process that stands on the shoulders of modern but established software development best practice. It is a fresh new start integrating successful practices sourced from the three leading process camps: the unified process camp, the agile methods camp and the process maturity camp. Each one of them contributes different capabilities: structure, agility and process improvement. Ivar has described EssUP as a "super light and agile" RUP and IJC have integrated EssUP into Microsoft Visual Studio Team System and Eclipse. Check out http://www.ivarjacobson.com   and http://www.ivarblog.com/   The essay for this cast is titled âWe Are All Futurists.â  The essay discusses the basis for predicting the future (can you say estimation) and why some people shy away from being a futurist.  The text of the essay can be found at www.tcagley.wordpress.com.  Comments and corrections are welcome. There are a number of ways to share your thoughts . . Email SPaMCAST at spamcastinfo@gmail.comVoice messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111Twitter â www.twitter.com/tcagleyBLOG â www.tcagley.wordpress.com   Future Events and the next . . . I have a couple of free webinars coming up in early 2008.  The first is âGetting Performance Improvement Out of Your Software Process Improvementâ on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT And the second is titled âA Cost Effective Approach to Enterprise Wide Software Process Improvementâ May 22nd, 2008 at 10:00 am - 11:30 am Eastern Time More information and registration information can be found at http://www.itmpi.org/webinars/ Next Software Process and Measurement Cast: The next Software Process and Measurement Cast will be a special show.  Cast 28 will feature part two of the interview with Ivar Jacobson.  Your thoughts and comments would be a welcome addition . . .   Technorati Profile

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