Welcome to Jeff Gainer's home on the Web! Here you'll find software industry and quality assurance links, as
well as some of my previously published articles.
Please
note: This site has undergone a redesign to a simpler, more straightforward style. I've provided links to most
of my recently published articles, that is, most everything I've published in the past half-dozen years. I'll continue
to provide further links to published articles on a regular basis, as well as the occasional "Web only"
feature.
Jeff's Bio
Online resources and industry links
The Road Warrior FAQ
Previously published articles:
- "Test Your Requirements"
FTP Online (October, 2003)
- "The Ten-Minute
Test Plan" FTP Online (September, 2003)
- "7 Pillars
of Testing Wisdom" .Net Magazine (January, 2003)
- "Book Review: Mobile .NET" .Net Magazine (April,
2003)
- "Leading People, Managing Things Cutter IT Journal E-Mail Advisor
(January, 2003)
- "Book Review: Business Innovation and Disruptive Technology .Net Magazine (January, 2003)
- "Book Review: Writing Secure Code .Net Magazine (January,
2003)
- "Book Review: The Microsoft .NET Platform and Technologies. .Net Magazine (November,
2002)
- "Low Tech Information Security" Cutter IT Journal E-Mail Advisor
(October 9, 2002)
- Book Review: "Learn the .NET Basics: Book Review: Think Microsoft .NET" .Net Magazine
(October, 2002)
- Book Review: "IT in the Post-September 11th World. Book Review: Byte Wars" .Net Magazine
(September, 2002)
- "The Elements of Appalling Style" Cutter IT Journal E-Mail Advisor
(May, 2002)
- "Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc" Cutter IT Journal E-Mail Advisor (April 4, 2002)
- "September 11, 2001" Cutter IT Journal E-Mail Advisor (November
11, 2001)
- In September 2001, Jeff acted as the guest editor for Cutter IT
Journal.
- "You Can't Automate Everything" Cutter IT Journal E-Mail Advisor
(September 5, 2001)
- "Choosing Chaos" Cutter IT Journal E-Mail Advisor (July
25, 2001)
- "Automated Testing: Myth vs. Reality" Cutter IT Journal E-Mail Advisor
(June 20, 2001)
- "Succession Plans" Cutter IT Journal E-Mail Advisor (May
16, 2001)
- "What's in a Name?" Cutter IT Journal E-Mail Advisor (April
4, 2001)
- "Expect the Unexpected" Cutter IT Journal E-Mail Advisor (February 21, 2001)
- "Fitting Process Into Internet Time" Cutter IT Journal E-Mail Advisor
(January 10, 2001)
- "The Concept of Expectations Management" Cutter IT Journal E-Mail
Advisor (November 8, 2000)
- "Estimation in the Virtual World" Cutter IT Journal E-Mail Advisor
(September 20, 2000)
- "It's All About Politics," Enterprise Development (June 2000)
- "The Law of Gravity Revisited" Cutter IT Journal E-Mail Advisor
(May 30, 2000)
- "Performance Testing in the Real World" Cutter IT Journal E-Mail Advisor
(May 17, 2000)
- "Surprise! The Estimate was Wrong," Enterprise Development (April 2000)
- "The Low Tech of High Technology" Cutter IT Journal E-Mail Advisor
(March 14, 2000)
- "The Colossus of the Long Now," Cutter IT Journal (January 2000)
- "Tempus Edax Rerum" Cutter
IT Journal (December 1999)
- "The Coming Backlash: Twilight of the Gods" Cutter
IT Journal (January 1999)
- "What Programmers Could Learn from Writers" Cutter IT Journal E-Mail
Advisor (January 5, 1999)
- "In the Midnight Hour" Cutter IT Journal E-Mail Advisor (December 1, 1999)
- "Making Millennial Predictions" Denver
Post (November 1999)
- "Manage Users by Managing Expectations" Enterprise Development (September 1999)
- "Are Requirements Dead?" Cutter IT Journal E-Mail Advisor (August 2, 1999)
- "Y2000: More Than a 15-second Sound Bite" Cutter IT Journal E-Mail
Advisor (June 9, 1999)
- "Make Meetings Match Your Needs" Enterprise Development (July 1999)
- "Improve Your Process from Within" Enterprise Development (June 1999)
- "Voices from the Front: Just Say 'No' to United" BizTravel (February 1999)
- "Expectations Management" The itmWEB IT Report (January
1999)
- "Another Y2K Perspective: Backlash" The itmWEB IT Report (November 1998)
- "Add Automated Testing at Every Step" Enterprise Development (October
1998)
- Ah, Sweet Innocence! The itmWEB IT Report (August 1998)
- Report from the Bunny Trail: Cutter Consortium Summit ’98 The itmWEB IT Report (July
1998)
- "Beyond
the Code: Write Lucid Code" Visual Basic Programmer's Journal (April 1998)
- Best Practices: Informal, Effective Process Improvement
- Building More Effective Teams
- Year 2000-Gate: Politicizing Y2K
- Reengineering IT: Revisiting Reengineering the Corporation
- "Your Turn: Write Lucid Code" Contract Professional (November/December 1997)
- The Year-2000 Problem in Perspective The
Missoulian (November 12, 1997)
- "Book Review: Edward Yourdon's Death March" CyberJihad (October 1997)
Copyright 1997-2005 by Jeff Gainer