- An Interview with Vaughn Vernon on Implementing Domain-Driven Design
- Feb 20, 2013
- Rebecca Wirfs-Brock talks to Vaughn Vernon, author of Implementing Domain-Driven Design, about the big problem in software development today, the best way to get started with Domain-Driven Design, and DDD’s relationship with agile development.
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- An Interview with Watts Humphrey, Part 10: The Fortune Interview, IBM Lawsuits, and Virtual Memory
- Apr 26, 2010
- In this transcript of an oral history, Grady Booch interviews SEI Fellow Watts Humphrey. In Part 10, they discuss IBM in the mid-1960s, including Humphrey's unfortunate Fortune interview, teaching lawyers about programming, and making the decision to use Virtual Memory in the IBM 370.
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- An Interview with Watts Humphrey, Part 9: Family History, Phase Plans, and Labs Around the World
- Apr 19, 2010
- In this transcript of an oral history, Grady Booch interviews SEI Fellow Watts Humphrey. In Part 9, they discuss Humphrey's family history, the advent of charging for software, creating phase charts, and running a global business.
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- An Interview with Watts Humphrey, Part 1: Beginnings
- Feb 22, 2010
- In this transcript of an oral history, Grady Booch interviews SEI Fellow Watts Humphrey about his early life and formative experiences. In part 1, Humphrey explains why modern software quality is truly terrible, why he failed 1st grade, and why his dad bought him a Model T Ford when he was eight years old.
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- An Interview with Watts Humphrey, Part 11: Skiing with Tom Watson and Why RCA Failed
- May 3, 2010
- In this transcript of an oral history, Grady Booch interviews SEI Fellow Watts Humphrey. In Part 11, they discuss how skiing with Tom Watson may have limited his career at IBM, and how former contentious colleagues at IBM went to RCA and killed the computer division there.
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- An Interview with Watts Humphrey, Part 12: IBM Corporate Policy, Contracts, and Lawsuits
- May 10, 2010
- In this transcript of an oral history, Grady Booch interviews SEI Fellow Watts Humphrey. In Part 12, they discuss Watts' role as Director of Policy Development at IBM, including rewriting every IBM contract and keeping IBM out of lawsuit hot water.
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- An Interview with Watts Humphrey, Part 13: The IBM PC and International Business
- May 17, 2010
- In this transcript of an oral history, Grady Booch interviews SEI Fellow Watts Humphrey. In Part 13, they discuss the early development of the IBM PC in the 1970s, and IBM's international challenges.
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- An Interview with Watts Humphrey, Part 14: Jay Forrester, Program Pricing, and the FS System
- May 24, 2010
- In this transcript of an oral history, Grady Booch interviews SEI Fellow Watts Humphrey. In Part 14, Watts talks about meeting Jay Forrester, using an old CRT memory tube as a cookie jar, more program pricing flaps, and IBM's FS System.
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- An Interview with Watts Humphrey, Part 15: The SHARE Meeting, the MVS Review, Release 15/16, and the Compatibility Letter
- May 31, 2010
- In this transcript of an oral history, Grady Booch interviews SEI Fellow Watts Humphrey. In Part 15, they discuss how the PL/1 language almost caused a riot, the failure of MFT, the value of customer input and quality assurance, and the issue of compatibility.
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- An Interview with Watts Humphrey, Part 16: Semiconductor and Software Quality and the Revolution of CI-105
- Jun 7, 2010
- In this transcript of an oral history, Grady Booch interviews SEI Fellow Watts Humphrey. In Part 16, they discuss Humphrey's vision of the future for IBM circa 1972 and IBM's push to improve quality on everything from semiconductors to installations.
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- An Interview with Watts Humphrey, Part 17: Measuring and Improving Software Quality
- Jun 14, 2010
- In this transcript of an oral history, Grady Booch interviews SEI Fellow Watts Humphrey. In Part 17, they discuss steps that Humphrey oversaw at IBM to measure and improve software quality.
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- An Interview with Watts Humphrey, Part 18: The Move to SEI
- Jun 21, 2010
- In this transcript of an oral history, Grady Booch interviews SEI Fellow Watts Humphrey. In Part 18, they discuss Watts' "Outrageous Commitment" to work at the Software Engineering Institute and how he made the decision to move on from IBM.
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- An Interview with Watts Humphrey, Part 19: Starting at SEI
- Jun 28, 2010
- In this transcript of an oral history, Grady Booch interviews SEI Fellow Watts Humphrey. In Part 19, they discuss Watts' start at SEI, including the Air Force's unhappiness with SEI, coming up with an assessment model, and the disastrous outcome of doing assessments at IBM.
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- An Interview with Watts Humphrey, Part 2: the Navy, College, and Wrestling
- Mar 1, 2010
- In this transcript of an oral history, Grady Booch interviews SEI Fellow Watts Humphrey about his early life and formative experiences. In part 2, Humphrey talks about his stint in the Navy during World War II, the college years, his first job, and wrestling.
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- An Interview with Watts Humphrey, Part 20: The SEI 5-Level Maturity Model
- Jul 5, 2010
- In this transcript of an oral history, Grady Booch interviews SEI Fellow Watts Humphrey. In Part 20, they discuss how the Capability Maturity Model got started and the formation of the CMM Steering Committee.
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- An Interview with Watts Humphrey, Part 21: The Personal Software Process
- Jul 12, 2010
- In this transcript of an oral history, Grady Booch interviews SEI Fellow Watts Humphrey. In Part 21, Humphrey discusses the creation of his Personal Software Process (PSP).
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- An Interview with Watts Humphrey, Part 22: The Process Conferences and the PSP Course
- Jul 19, 2010
- In this transcript of an oral history, Grady Booch interviews SEI Fellow Watts Humphrey. In Part 22, Humphrey explains why he stopped going to process conferences and why he decided to write a book and teach a course on PSP.
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- An Interview with Watts Humphrey, Part 23: IBM Tool Development, the Academic Advisory Board, and the Speak Out Article
- Jul 26, 2010
- In this transcript of an oral history, Grady Booch interviews SEI Fellow Watts Humphrey. In Part 23, Humphrey discusses the quest for high quality code, the reason for bringing on an academic advisory board at IBM, and the to-do surrounding his article on Ronald Reagan's "Star Wars" program.
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- An Interview with Watts Humphrey, Part 24: Mary Shaw Meetings and the Ashton-Tate Story
- Aug 2, 2010
- In this transcript of an oral history, Grady Booch interviews SEI Fellow Watts Humphrey. In Part 24, Humphrey talks about his first days at SEI, his regular "meetings" with Mary Shaw, and why Ashton-Tate failed because they chose to believe their own mythology rather than focus on reality.
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- An Interview with Watts Humphrey, Part 25: SEI Strategy and the Trouble with Trivial Errors
- Aug 9, 2010
- In this transcript of an oral history, Grady Booch interviews SEI Fellow Watts Humphrey. In Part 25, Humphrey talks about how the SEI strategy came about, the value of monthly reports, and why you can't count on testing to find all of your defects.
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