maher’s brain

I was at the New Jersey Process Symposium yesterday to give a talk on models I use in my consulting work.

The keynote was given my Ed Yourdon, whom I’ hadn’t seen in a while, at least since he talked to the NY CitiSpin sometime last year. He was about to give his Web 2.0 talk (updated), but decided at the last minute to trash it and talk about more current issues.

How about the financial  crisis and its downstream effects on technical professionals for a start?

So Ed pulled out Death March 2.0 and updated it to Death March 3.0 for the content of his talk.

In a few words, he predicted longer, cheaper, slower projects executed by more junior people, with a higher tolerance for errors in the field. Also a buyer’s market for technical folks.

Time to consider expanding our skill sets, but it’s not likely that anyone but us will bear those costs. You can find both sets of Ed’s slides on his website. As usual, we can do what we want with them.