More info on Essence

Recent Video Blogs on Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence and Essence

The most in-demand skill for future software developers and Generative AI revisited

The most in-demand skill for future software developers and where to find it today

How to get better at protecting your privacy, security and safety in an internet-of-things world

Also, refer below to the webinar on “Being agile and lean in constrained and regulated environments” which includes a discussion on how the Essence framework can assist in tailoring processes in a way that ensure you don’t tailor out essentials for success, including essentials to ensure you are adequately cyber secure and cyber resilient.

Books

Shy Boys: Notes from ten years of working with software engineering giants

It’s All Upside Down: What I’ve Learned About Software Development and Why it seems Opposite to Everything I was Taught (Includes examples of the use of Essence)

15 Fundamentals for Higher Performance in Software Development: Includes discussion on Essence Framework

The Essence of Software Engineering: Applying the SEMAT Kernel

The Essentials of Modern Software Engineering

Blogs and Videos

Keynote at 1st International Workshop on Essence in Education and Training, Nov, 2020: What We Should Be Teaching Our Next Generation of Software Professionals

Let’s start a conversation on integrating Essence into day to day activities as a thinking framework and general problem-solving tool, November, 2019

The value in listening to people who think differently from yourself, November, 2019

Scaling “Essence in Stealth Mode” and why you should care, June, 2019

Using Essence in “stealth mode” to help solve a Cybersecurity Challenge, May, 2019

Critical Thinking and Essence: Why every engineer and consultant should care, March, 2019

What Does Essence and science fiction have in common?, December, 2018

Alternative blog title: What do we really mean when we say Essence checklists are not check-the-box checklists?, September, 2018

Making software development as simple as possible, but not simpler, February, 2018

The essence of how Essence makes practitioners better for life, February, 2018

How Essence makes practitioners better software estimators for a lifetime, February, 2018

How Essence makes practitioners better software modelers for a lifetime, January, 2018

Things you can take with you for a lifetime, January, 2018

Motivation for Essence in 7 minutes, January, 2018

Avoiding two common software project troubled paths by being agile rather than doing agile, January, 2017

A key value of Essence related to troubled projects, January, 2017

Helping coaches everywhere, January, 2017

The power of principles, January, 2017

What’s the difference between a practice and a pattern and how they each improve performance, September, 2015

New video on practical ways teams can use Essence and new published paper on Essence, January, 2015

Essence: What’s new and different, December, 2014

Using Essence to help your team stay fit and your organization find it’s right level of governance, November, 2014

Why software engineering isn’t like other engineering disciplines and how it changes the game, September, 2014

How do you keep your audience engaged when they don’t understand your language, September, 2014

Quantifying the value of using SEMAT’s Essence framework, September, 2014

A slightly different way to think about the SEMAT vision and the Essence framework, August, 2014

Viewing software practitioners as the customer for your organizational practices, July, 2014

Practice slices and patterns: A better way to deploy process improvements, July, 2014

Articles and Reference Documents

CMMI the Agile Way: Combining CMMI, Scrum and Essence, July, 2016

Why Software Development Isn’t Like Other Engineering Disciplines and How it Changes the Game

The Essence of Software Engineering, ACM Queue

Major League SEMAT– Why Should an Executive Care?

Essence Quick Reference Guide

Interviews

Q and A on the book, “It’s All Upside Down”

Conference Videos

Discussion on Essence in Columbia, South America, August, 2014

Webinars

Making the Heart of Agile Concrete: Essence

The following webinar I gave in March 2017 and maybe even more important today, as I write this in February, 2024. You not only learn about the topic in the title, but also about the critical importance of tailoring in today’s world, and how Essence can help you ensure you don’t “tailor out” essentials for success, including essentials to ensure your system is adequately cyber secure and cyber resilient.

Being Agile and Lean in constrained and regulated environments

Websites

Software Engineering Method and Theory (SEMAT)