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Newsletter: "Reflections"

I started the newsletter as a way to connect with my clients when I wasn't there. Each issue contains a series of concrete proven techniques that I have found to be highly effective. See the newsletter samples below for examples of newsletter articles.

I now take Visa and MasterCard, so if you've been wondering how the heck to get a check out of your company, you no longer have to.

I've received these comments from newsletter subscribers:

• "Your newsletter is great. You really have a knack for explaining difficult (and often painful :-) concepts so concisely." ... VP Product Development
• "I tried the "one-on-one" suggestion. It's really working." ... First line Manager
• "Are you sure you don't work for my company? I really like your pragmatic suggestions and real-world examples." ... Technical Contributor
• "I really enjoyed your last newsletter - seems I can always find something in your writting to use in the real world." ... Senior QA Engineering

I hope you consider subscribing also. The most recent newsletter (Volume 5, Number 2) had these articles:

• Retaining Staff
• What's Wrong with Wednesday?
• The Bring-me-a-Rock Schedule Game
• Estimates: Precision vs. Accuracy

Sample articles from previous newsletters:

• Improving Product Planning: The Top Ten List
• Managing People: Look for Results, Not Time
• Process Toolbox: More People Does Not Equal Better Projects
• Process Toolbox: Steering vs. Repeatable
• The Perils of Parallel Projects
• Hiring Toolbox: Asking Good Interview Questions
• When You're Having a Bad-Manager Day
• It Depends
• What Does it Cost you to Fix a Defect?
• Program Management
• It's Just the First Slip
• Solving Problems
• Release Criteria, or Is it Ready to Ship?
• Using Influence

Book Commentaries

• Communications Gaps and How to Close Them,by Naomi Karten
• Project Retrospectives, by Norm Kerth
• First, Break all the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Diffently, by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman
• Software Project Manager's Handbook: Principles that Work at Work, by Dwayne Phillips
• Adaptive Software Development, by Jim Highsmith
• Software Requirements, by Karl Wiegers
• Mastering the Requirements Process, by Suzanne and James Robertson
• Peopleware, Productive Projects and Teams, by Tom DeMarco and Tim Lister
• The Psychology of Computer Programming, Silver Anniversary edition, by Gerald M. Weinberg
• Bad Software, by Cem Kaner
• The Deadline, by Tom DeMarco
• Quality Software Management, Volume 1, Systems Thinking, by Gerald M. Weinberg

If you would like one free newsletter, please send me your mailing address. A one-year suscription (4 issues) is US$30.To subscribe, print and send the order form, or contact me at 1-781-641-4046 or by email.

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