Ed Yourdon provides a series of executive briefings, short presentations, technical and management seminars, and workshops on a variety of Internet-related, project management, and software-engineering topics. Most of these educational offerings are one, two, or three days long. The seminars and briefings can be tailored to the needs and time-constraints of the client.

Some of Yourdon’s seminars are offered on a public basis, through various training organizations and conference companies outside the United States; however, most of these seminars are presented on-site, at a client’s location. Similarly, the talks and speeches are sometimes presented at public conferences, but most of them are presented on-site to IT departments, and corporate management meetings.

Pricing and details for on-site seminars and presentations are available upon request. Yourdon’s schedule is heavily booked 3-6 months in advance, with some events scheduled up to 12 months in advance. If you’re interested in arranging a seminar or executive briefing, please contact him as far in advance as possible.

Seminar Titles

• Developing an Enterprise Web 2.0 strategy
• Managing Death March projects
• Just enough software requirements: eliciting, documenting, and managing requirements for today’s Internet-time projects
• Peopleware for the 21st Century: key issues for recruiting, motivating, and retaining IT professionals
• Software War Games – a simulation/exercise for “experiencing” the realities of managing a software project

Keynote Talks and Short Presentations

Internet-related topics

• Developing and deploying an Enterprise Web 2.0 strategy
• The new new Internet: Web 3.0 and beyond
• Developing virtual “communities” both inside and outside the corporate firewall, and why most companies don’t have a clue what this really means
• The social/cultural impact of the Internet (covers various issues discussed in The YOURDON Report)

IT management, technology, and software engineering topics

• Best practices for robust Web 2.0 products and services
• Technology trends for the next decade
• Peopleware for the 21st Century: key issues for recruiting, motivating, and retaining IT professionals
• Succeeding and surviving death-march projects
• Project negotiations: how to succeed with tradeoffs between time, cost, staff, functionality, and quality
• “Good-enough” software: why it’s actually the best approach in today’s environment
• Requirements management: how to identify, document, and keep track of user requirements in a volatile environment
• Agile methods for the new decade: how to avoid the extremes of anarchy and the 17-volume “heavy” methods of the past
• Process improvement in the real world: creating a bottom-up, grass-roots “best practice” initiative

Senior management presentations

• Technology megatrends for the next decade
• Strategic planning for e-business
• Outsourcing IT in the global marketplace
• Creating and supporting a “death-march” IT culture