Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Phil Armour
Phil Armour writes a regular column in the Communications of the ACM which is well worth reading. I've been meaning to re-read these essays for a while, and apart from the odd dip, never really sat down to read them seriously. So to help structure this activity, I've prepared a 'reading guide' to the essays that have been published:
The essay are (in chronological order):
- The case for a new business model, August 2000
- The five orders of ignorance, October 2000
- The laws of software process, January 2001
- The business of software, March 2001
- Matching process to types of teams, July 2001
- Zeppelins and jet planes: a metaphor for modern software projects, October 2001
- The spiritual life of projects, January 2002
- The organism and mechanism of projects, May 2002
- Ten unmyths of project estimation, November 2002
- The reorg cycle, February 2003
- In the zone: the need for flexible roles, May 2003
- Closing the learning application gap, September 2003
- When executives code, January 2004
- Beware of counting LOC, March 2004
- Real work, necessary friction, optional chaos, June 2004
- Not-defect: the mature discipline of testing, October 2004
- The unconscious art of software testing, January 2005
- Project portfolios: organisational management of risk, March 2005
- Sarbanes-Oxley and software projects, June 2005
- To plan, two plans, September 2005
