Why Software Projects Fail

Yesterday, (June 9, 2010) I gave a presentation in Gothenburg (Göteborg) for a well known large Swedish company, regarding why – despite advances in software methodology, languages and tools – projects still fail. The major theme of the speech was the paradox of at one hand we have seen a tremendous improvements of languages, tools and methodologies over the last quarter of a century , but on the other hand…
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Trends in Application Development

Last Wednesday I gave an internal seminar for a well-known and large Swedish company. The topic was on software development and I had decided to talk about my reflections/observation of software project failures. The major theme of the speech was the paradox of at one hand we have seen a tremendous improvements of languages, tools and methodologies over the last quarter of a century , but on the other hand…
Read more...Dynamic Languages and Perl

I gave a company internal seminar regarding dynamic programming languages and Perl at 20 May 2008. My objective was to introduce the concept of dynamic programming languages in general and Perl in particular. Slides: Introduktion till dynamiska språk Introduktion till Perl Share
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