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Software Development Magazine columns
- Plan Perfect, Software Development, May 2003
- Shaking off the "Shoulds" Part 1, Software Development, January, 2003
- Beyond Tool Use, Software Development, October, 2002
- Managing for Results, Software Development, June 2002
- No More Meeting Mutinies, Software Development , March, 2002
- Tips for Passing the Baton, Software Development , February, 2002
- Livable Layoffs, Software Development, November, 2001
- Other People's Problems, Software Development, September 2001
Stickyminds.com columns
- Recognizing Agile Candidates, Stickyminds, Sept 2006
- An Incremental Technique to Pay Off Testing Technical Debt, Stickyminds, Jul 2006
- Sunny Skies or Storms?, Stickyminds, Mar 2006.
- How Much Building Is Too Much?, Stickyminds, Jan 2006.
- How Much Work Can You Do?, Stickyminds.com, Oct 2005.
- What's on Your Not-to-Do List, Stickyminds.com, June 2005.
- Estimating Testing Time, Stickyminds,com, May 2005.
- Building Better Test Teams, Stickyminds.com, Nov. 2004
- Watching Testers in Action: Auditions During Interviews, Stickyminds.com, Sept 2004.
- By the Dashboard Light, Stickyminds.com, July 2004.
- So Many Tests, So Little Time, Stickyminds.com, May 2004
- Multiprojecting: The Illusion of Progress, Stickyminds.com, March 2004
- When Enough is Not Enough, Stickyminds.com, January 2004
- Testers Shine on Agile Projects, Stickyminds.com, November 2003
- When Should You Start Project Overtime?, Stickyminds.com, July 2003
- Improve Tester Performance, Stickyminds.com, May 2003
- Clarify Your Ranking for System Problem Reports, Stickyminds.com, March 2003 What Does Your Title Say about Your Job?, December, 2002
- What Testers Can Do About Technical Debt, Parts 1 and 2, Stickyminds.com, August 2002
- Taking a Risk: How to Make Risk Conversations More Effective, Stickyminds.com, May 2002
- Advice on How to Hire Testers, Stickyminds.com, April 2002
- What Does it Cost to Fix a Defect?, StickyMinds.com, February, 2002
- What does Success Look Like?, StickyMinds.com, January, 2002
- Testing Your Worth, Measuring Value in a Tight Job Market, StickyMinds.com, October 2001
- Risk Analysis Basics, StickyMinds.com, December, 2001
- Testing Your Worth, Measuring Value in a Tight Job Market, StickyMinds.com, October 2001
- Measuring Up: Measuring Test Managers from an Organization’s Perspective, Stickyminds.com, August 2001
- A Test Manager’s Output: What Is That?, June 2001
- Where's Charlie?!, Stickyminds.com, April 2001
- You're Too Valuable Where You Are, Stickyminds.com February 2001
- What Do You Manage?, December 2000
- Shhhhhh! You Can?t Say That!, October 2000
Cutter IT Alignment and APM articles
- Five Warning Signs of Misalignment Between IT and Business Strategy, Cutter Business-IT Strategies E-Mail Advisor
- Hiring for an Agile Project, Cutter Agile Project Management E-Mail Advisor, February 2005
- Hiring in Alignment, March 2003
- Planning Your People Investment, June 2002
- Practice: A Necessary Part of Change, February 2002
- Project Portfolio Management 101, October 2001
- Maintaining Project Agility, February 2001
- Managerial Competence: The Key to Surviving Change, April 2000
- Hiring IT Staff: Asking the Right Questions, February 2000
- Designing in Alignment, December 1999
- Dealing with Pet Projects, October 1999
- How to Avoid Dead Projects, October 1999
- Align Your Staff's Capabilities with Projects, July 1999
- What to Measure?, March 1999
- Aligning IT Staff with Projects, February 1999
Computerworld.com columns
- Don't Play 'Schedule Chicken', Computerworld.com, May 2005
- How to Hire Technical Managers, Jan. 2005
- Deck the halls ... 23 Dec 04
- Asking Great Questions, Nov. 2004
- Using Inch-Pebbles to Track Project State, Computerworld.com, February 2004 Hey, it could happen! A contrarian's approach to predictions, Computerworld.com, December 2003
- Hire People, not Tools, Computerworld.com, Oct. 2003
- 11 Steps to Outsourcing: A Contrarian's View, Computerworld.com, Sept 2003
- When do you say "No, that's not my job any longer"?, Computerworld.com, August, 2003
- Use All Three Parts of Project Estimation, Computerworld.com, May 2003
- Steering vs. Repeatable, Computerworld.com, April 2003
- What's Wrong with Wednesdays?, Computerworld.com, January 2003
- What's Your Fault Feedback Ratio?, Computerworld.com, November 2002
Fast Company/Inc Hiring Center columns
- Interviewing New College Grads, Fast Company/Inc. Hiring Center, April 2005.
- Breathing Life into Your Employee Referral Program, Fast Company/Inc. Hiring Center, March, 2005.
- Cultural Fits and Starts, Fast Company/Inc. Hiring Center, February, 2005