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Jul 13

Personal Productivity Strategies

by Chad, Cutter, No Comments

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July 13, 2006 This aricle just crossed my desk from a Cutter Consortium colleague, Dwayne Phillips. It is a thoughtful piece with a fresh look at work life in the Information Age, addressing the subject of “personal productivity” on a large IT project. It brought to mind a recent Fortune magazine article entitled “How I […]

Jun 22

Keynote Address at the Better Software Conference

by Chad, Conferences, No Comments

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June 22, 2006 Next week, I’ll be giving this keynote address at the Better Software Conference in Las Vegas Nevada. I’m pretty excited about sharing a case study demonstrating before/after productivity and defect patterns on Agile Methods. My team collected actual time-to-market, effort, sizing, and defect information for an organization that made a major strategic […]

May 18

Cutter Summit 2006 – Outsourcing and Service Level Agreements

by Chad, Conferences, No Comments

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May 18, 2006 It’s been a few days since the Cutter Summit conference in Boston, and one of the sessions is still rolling around in my brain and won’t let go of my frontal lobes. It was Tim Lister’s talk on “Avoiding IT Litigation”. It was a particularly fun session because Tim made it a […]