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