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Category Archives: Presentations

Speaking, training and writing

We’ve been keeping ourselves busy! What’s that? You want to know more? Well, certainly. We’ve got lots of news:

Jenny and I are doing some guest blogging on the Head First Labs website, talking about what it’s like writing a Head First book (and whatever else we feel like talking about). I’ll be doing the [...]

A great time at NYC SPIN / PMINYC

We had a great time presenting at a NYC SPIN meeting on Tuesday — it was a joint gig with the PMINYC chapter, and we had a great crowd. We got a lot of great questions, which is always great. As promised, here’s a PDF of the slides. If anyone’s got any questions, feel free [...]

News from the trenches

Hey, we’re super-busy, so I’ll have to keep this short and sweet. But Jenny and I have some news, and we wanted to share it with you.

We’re in the home stretch on Head First C#. We should be done with the manuscript in the next couple of weeks, which means that it should be [...]

PMI Mass Bay - Thanks for a great time!

The folks at the PMI Mass Bay chapter contacted me and Jenny a while back (using our convenient contact page) and invited us to give a talk at a chapter meeting, which we did last Thursday. We had a great time, and met some really interesting people. They’ve got one of the biggest PMI chapters [...]

IASA / NYCJava - thanks for having us by!

Jenny and I had a great time doing our “Why Projects Fail” talk at a joint meeting between the International Association of Software Architects and NYC Java SIG (a couple of announcements) at the Microsoft office in midtown Manhattan last night. (Fun trivia fact: my first job out of college was in the same building, [...]