Archives for Open Source

Slides from Managing Software Debt Talk at PNSQC 2009

Tomorrow at 1:30pm I will be discussing my paper published by the Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference 2009 in Portland, OR on “Managing Software Debt: Continued Delivery of High Value as Systems Age”. I have uploaded the slides for this presentation and I hope that some of the new content will help those looking for [...]

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Executable Specifications – Presentation from AgilePalooza

Earlier this year I did a presentation on Executable Specficiations for AgilePalooza conference. There is information about working with legacy code, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) systems, and Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD) using automated acceptance testing tools. Also, the presentation lists types of automated acceptance testing tools out there along with actual names of tools and what [...]

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AgilePalooza in San Francisco May 29th

AgilePalooza is a one day Agile conference on Friday May 29th at the San Francisco State University downtown campus. There will be two tracks: Learning Agility and Advancing Agility. “Learning Agility” will be presentation style whereas “Advancing Agility” will use the open space format. Speakers include David Hussman (DevJam), Chris Sterling (SolutionsIQ), Luke Hohmann (Enthiosys), [...]

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My Talk @ SD West 2009 on "Managing Software Debt"

I have uploaded the talk I did at SD West 2009 on Yahoo! Video and here it is: Managing Software Debt – Chris Sterling @ SD West 2009 @ Yahoo! Video

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See You at SD West 2009

I’d like to invite you to join me at … SD West 2009 Conference & Expo March 9–13 Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA http://www.SDExpo.com/ I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be teaching the following session at SD West 2009: “Managing Software Debt: Continuing to Deliver High Value as Systems Age” on Friday, March [...]

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Top 25 Open Source Projects — Recommended for Enterprise Use

This is a bit off my usual topics on this blog but I am a heavy open source user and this article is something that I hope gets to more enterprise operations, managers and executives. I have been using and deploying production available applications using open source tools, libraries, and platforms for over 12 years [...]

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