| Focus
on Tom Love |
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CAI State of the Practice Interview |
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A
CAI State of the Practice Interview with Tom Love, CEO and
author |
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Tom Love is the Co-Founder and CEO
of ShouldersCorp. Prior to founding ShouldersCorp, he was
CEO of WorldStreet Corporation, Managing Director of Morgan
Stanley and Vice President of IBM Consulting Group (now
Global Services). In 1983 he co-founded Stepstone Corporation,
the first Object Oriented software products company (Objective-C;
Software-ICs). Before becoming an entrepreneur, Tom Love
held technical and director-level positions with General
Electric, ITT and Schlumberger. Tom is the author or co-author
of over 60 journal articles, book chapter and technical
reports, as well as the author of Object Lessons: Lessons
Learned from Commercial Object-Oriented Application Development,
published by Cambridge University Press. His new book Software
Pilots will be available in December, 2005. |
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Click
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"Don't
Believe Everything You See or Hear," from Tom Love's
new book Software Pilots |
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Software project managers are flooded
with raw information- most of which is inaccurate and often
irrelevant. In this excerpt from Software Pilots, Tom Love
explores the risks of developing software without real time
information and then proceeds to make the case for a "project
panel" or "real time control chart." (13
pages) |
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Click
Here to Read the Article! |
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Making
Software Hard- To Reduce Risks! |
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This
article by Tom Love explains a novel technique for combining
metrics and estimation tools with a simple physical model
to mitigate software development risks at a very low cost.
(5 pages) |
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Click
Here to Read the Article! |
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Site
of the Week |
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IEEE
Computer Society's Technical Committee on Real Time Systems
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| 5. |
Book
of the Week |
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Object
Lessons: Lessons Learned from Commerical Object-Oriented
Application Development by Tom Love |
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From
the Book Description: “Object Lessons encourages software
professionals to build high-quality, innovative software
products with less risk by avoiding the mistakes that plague
the industry. With the wisdom acquired from over a decade
of experience building commercial software products using
objects, Love addresses the questions that both technical
leaders and managers face as they venture into this important
new area of software development. Focusing on fundamental
issues and trends as opposed to specific products and services,
Love supplies valuable insight into the development and
management of large-scale commercial software. Object Lessons
will prove to be an indispensable reference guide for all
professionals in the field of object-oriented software engineering." |
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Click
Here to Read More or to Buy the Book! |
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| 6. |
Archives |
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Special
Edition: Interview with Dr. Michael Cusumano,
MIT Sloan School of Management |
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Special
Edition: Interview with Dr. Herb Krasner,
University of Texas and Krasner Consulting |
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Special
Edition: Interview with Joseph McMakin,
former CIO of Air Products and Chemicals |
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Special
Edition: Interview with Capers Jones, Chief
Scientist Emeritus of SPR |
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| 7. |
FAQ |
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