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29 March 2008

A new essay Get a Life - A Second Life has been posted.

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1 February 2008

I have been appointed Associated Editor of IEEE Software Magazine responsible for publications in the area of software management.

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3 December 2007

ICSR-2008, the Tenth International Conference on Software Reuse, is coming up in May 2008 in Beijing, China. I am co-organizing the RESAFE-2008 workshop on safety and software reuse, co-located with ICSR-2008, and co-presenting a tutorial with Professor Bill Frakes on Metrics and Strategy for Reuse.

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3 December 2007

I am a member of the review team for the Agile & Organizational Culture Stage of the Agile2008 Conference.

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28 April 2007

A new essay The Rise of Internet Video has been posted.

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05 January 2007

I am on the program committees for some great conferences and workshops coming up this year. First, I am on the workshops organizing committee for TOOLS EUROPE 2007 in Zurich, Switzerland. Let us know your ideas for workshops. Then two important conferences in the agile software engineering community: XP2007 in Como, Italy; and Agile 2007 in Washington, D.C. Join in!

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05 October 2006

I co-organized RESAFE 2006,  the International Workshop on Software Reuse and Safety at ICSR9 on 15 June 2006. The results of the workshop are now up on the site. Take a look and join the RESAFE community if you work in that area. Another workshop is being planned for next year.

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25 March 2006

A new essay The Rise of Virtual Internet Communities has been posted.

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11 December 2005

The calls are out for the Ninth International Conference on Software Reuse from June 12-16 2006 in the Olympic city of Turin, Italy. I will be co-hosting a workshop on the controversial topic of software reuse and safety. More details to follow.

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23 June 2005

I gave a keynote at XP2005 in Sheffield. More details on the conference site..

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2 April 2005

A new essay The Online Auction Phenomenon has been posted.

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25 January 2005

I'll be giving a keynote speech at the Sixth International Conference on eXtreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering. Details to follow.

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14 December 2004

I've joined the program committee of a new conference, the First International Conference on Open Source Systems.

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3 December 2004

The Ninth International Conference on Software Reuse has been fixed for the summer of 2006 in the Olympic city of Turin, Italy. Further details to follow.

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30 September 2004

A new essay The Piranha Pond has been posted.

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16 June 2004

A new paper on Efficient Markets, Efficient Projects, and Predicting the Future has been posted.

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30 April 2004

The May/June 2004 special issue of IEEE Software on "Return on Investment in the Software Industry," of which I was a Guest Editor, has just appeared. The Guest Editors Introduction  has been posted.

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17 April 2004

A new essay Nineteen Eighty-Four: Twenty Years Later has been posted.

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13 March 2004

A new essay (on architect Christopher Alexander) has been posted.

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6 March 2004

At the Fifth International Conference on Extreme Programming and Agile Methods in Germany this June I'll be delivering a presentation entitled "Efficient Markets, Efficient Projects, and Predicting the Future." Within the collocated Symposium on Extreme Training and Education I'll be co-delivering a demonstration of The Agile Theater teaching technique with Patrizia Falcone.

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29 January 2004

At the Eighth International Conference on Software Reuse in Madrid this July, I'll be participating in a panel on the subject "Software Reuse and Software Safety." Software reuse has been blamed for causing serious accidents, both in the U.S. (Therac-25) and Europe (Ariane 5). This panel will address the impact of software reuse on software safety.

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25 January 2004

I'm a guest editor (along with my colleagues Hakan Erdogmus and Wolfgang Strigel) for the May 2004 special issue of IEEE Software on "ROI in the Software Industry."

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11 January 2004
I'm on the program committees of some great conferences this year:
bulletThe Eighth International Conference on Software Reuse, in Madrid, Spain in early July 2004 - ICSR8 (http://icsr8.cs.rug.nl/)
bulletThe Fifth International Conference on Extreme Programming and Agile Methods, in early June 2004 - XP2004 (http://www.xp2004.org)
bulletXP Agile Universe 2004, in Calgary, Canada in mid-August (http://www.xpuniverse.com)

 

 

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