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PHP Abstract Podcast Episode 20: Five Ways To Kill a Software Project

September 20, 2007

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Episode 20: Five Ways To Kill a Software Project

Special Guest: Cal Evans
Release Date: 09/20/2007
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0

We use the analogy “train wreck” for so many things including software development projects gone horribly wrong. I’ve managed my share of development projects both successful and failures in the past 20 years. Along the I’ve learned a lot about what it takes to succeed and what it take to fail when building software. Many good books out there will show you how to succeed few have dared to tackle the subject of how to fail. So today I’m going to step out on a limb and do just that.

Show Notes for Episode 20

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About Cal Evans

Many moons ago, at the tender age of 14, Cal touched his first computer. (We're using the term "computer" loosely here, it was a TRS-80 Model 1) Since then his life has never been the same. He graduated from TRS-80s to Commodores and eventually to IBM PC's. For the past 10 years Cal has worked with PHP and MySQL on Linux OSX, and when necessary, Windows. He has built on a variety of projects ranging in size from simple web pages to multi-million dollar web applications. When not banging his head on his monitor, attempting a blood sacrifice to get a particular piece of code working, he enjoys building and managing development teams using his widely imitated but never patented management style of "management by wandering around". Cal is currently based in Nashville, TN and is gainfully unemployed as the Chief Marketing Officer of Blue Parabola, LLC. Cal is happily married to wife 1.28, the lovely and talented Kathy. Together they have 2 kids who were both bright enough not to pursue a career in IT. Cal blogs at http://blog.calevans.com and is the founder and host of Day Camp 4 Developers

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One Response to “PHP Abstract Podcast Episode 20: Five Ways To Kill a Software Project”

  1. _____anonymous_____ Says:
    September 21, 2007 at 5:05 pm

    As I listened to this podcast I easily substituted terms for my industry for the appropriate players and departments in software development, and it made perfect sense in that context from a project management POV. Thanks for pointing out the tar pits so many stumble into in projects of all kinds.