Dwayne Phillips

List of Publications

1. “Through the IT Looking Glass: Mirrors for Managers,” The Cutter IT E-Mail Advisor, www.cutter.com, June 2010.

2. “Fly’n, Eye’n, Buy’n,” The Cutter IT E-Mail Advisor, www.cutter.com, March 2010.

3. “Of Bravery, Cowardice, and Recognizing Fatigue,” The Cutter IT E-Mail Advisor, www.cutter.com, January 2010.

4. “To Assess Risks, Be Wary of Personal Viewpoints,” The Cutter IT E-Mail Advisor, www.cutter.com, August 2009

5.“Plans, Planning, and Other Types of Engagement,” The Cutter IT E-Mail Advisor, www.cutter.com, June 2009.

6. “The Curse of COTS,” The Cutter IT E-Mail Advisor, www.cutter.com, April 2009.

7.“Resisting the Technology Imperative,” The Cutter IT E-Mail Advisor, www.cutter.com, December 2008.

8.“Urban Legends (At Work),” The Cutter IT E-Mail Advisor, www.cutter.com, August 2008.

9.“A Crippling Comment,” The Cutter IT E-Mail Advisor, www.cutter.com, June 2008.

10.“Laboratory Practice, Testing, and Test Reporting,” independent publication.

11.“Play Time,” The Cutter IT E-Mail Advisor, www.cutter.com, April 2008.

12.“Advances from Suffering from Mistakes,” The Cutter IT E-Mail Advisor, www.cutter.com, January 2008.

13. “Working Up to Project Management, How Crushing Rocks at the Asphalt Plant Prepared Me for Government Work,” Dorset House Publishing, ISBN 13: 978-0-932633-66-8, 2008.

14.“The Most Important One Second,” The Cutter IT E-Mail Advisor, www.cutter.com, November 2007.

15. “Drilling Down vs Picking Nits: A Management Technique,” The Cutter IT E-Mail Advisor, www.cutter.com, September 2007.

16. “An Afternoon in a Hospital Waiting Room,” The Cutter IT E-Mail Advisor, www.cutter.com, 25 July 2007.

17. “Celebrations, A Tribute to the People in the Virginia Tech Massacre,” The Cutter IT E-Mail Advisor, www.cutter.com, May 2007.

18. “A Manager's Metric: The Employee Weigh-In,” The Cutter IT E-Mail Advisor, www.cutter.com, 28 March 2007.

19. “A Peculiar Project,” reprinted in “Software Creativity 2.0,” by Robert L. Glass, developer.* books, 2006.

20.“An e-mail to Jerry Weinberg, Paul Coyle and others who may contemplate systems from time to time,” The AYE Conference, http://ayeconference.com/articles.html, 17 January 2007.

21.“Just One, More, Little Change,” The Cutter IT E-Mail Advisor, www.cutter.com, 17 January 2007.

22.“No One Would Do That! Or Why Engineers Should Attend Budget Meetings,” The Cutter IT E-Mail Advisor, www.cutter.com, 8 November 2006.

23.“Introductions,” The Cutter IT E-Mail Advisor, www.cutter.com, September 2006.

24.“Debt and Choice,” The Software Practitioner, July-October, 2006, Volume 16, Numbers 4 and 5, pp. 16-17.

25.“Key Moments in Projects,” The Cutter IT E-Mail Advisor, www.cutter.com, March 2006.

26.“No Surprises,” The Cutter IT E-Mail Advisor, www.cutter.com, January 2006.

27.“Good Old Project Management,” The Cutter IT E-Mail Advisor, www.cutter.com, October 2005.

28.“Summer Jigsaw Puzzles and Project Management,” The Cutter IT E-Mail Advisor, www.cutter.com, August 2005.

29.“Dedication Requires Good Management,” The Cutter IT E-Mail Advisor, www.cutter.com, June 2005.

30.“It Matters What You Say or It’s Alive! An Employee Awakens,” The Cutter IT E-Mail Advisor, www.cutter.com, March 2005.

31.“Derived Requirements,” The Cutter IT E-Mail Advisor, www.cutter.com, February 2005.

32.“Working in IT in America: Some Strategies for Not Losing Your Job to Overseas Outsourcing,” Cutter IT Journal, October 2004, pp.18-23.

33.“The Software Project Manager’s Handbook, Principles That Work At Work,” Second Edition, IEEE Computer Society and Wiley and Sons, 2004, ISBN 0-471-67420-6.

34.“It Sounded Good When We Started: A Project Manager’s Guide to Working with People on Projects,” with Roy O’Bryan, IEEE Computer Society and Wiley and Sons, 2003, ISBN 0-471-48586-1.

35.“The Free Bagel Measure of Project Health,” The Cutter IT E-Mail Advisor, www.cutter.com, May 2004.

36.“Returning to Some Fundamentals,” The Cutter IT E-Mail Advisor, www.cutter.com, November 2003.

37.Book review of “Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering,” by Robert L. Glass, The C/C++ Users Journal, CUJ Online Exclusives, www.cuj.com, July 2003.

38.“Untangling the Security Knot,” The Software Practitioner, May-June, 2003, pp. 5-7.

39.“A People-Satisfying IDEA,” pp. 45-52 of “The Politics of Software Testing.” Published by Cutter Information LLC. www .cutter.com, ISBN 1-57484-178-5.

40.“Frankenstein at Work,” The Cutter IT E-Mail Advisor, www.cutter.com, February 2003.

41.“Extreme System Failures,” The Cutter IT E-Mail Advisor, www.cutter.com, December 2002.

42.“Working During a Community Crisis,” The Cutter IT E-Mail Advisor, www.cutter.com, November 2002.

43.“A Best Practice,” The Software Practitioner, September-October, 2002, pp. 7-8.

44.“Messages: Judging Them or Using Them?” The Cutter IT E-Mail Advisor, www.cutter.com, August 2002.

45.“A People-Satisfying IDEA,” Cutter IT Journal, July 2002, pp. 26-30.

46.“Go Configure! Understanding the principles and promises of configuration management,” STQE, May-June 2002, pp. 54.

47."Roundtable on Technical Leadership, A SHAPE Forum Dialogue," contributor, Edited by James Bullock, Gerald M. Weinberg, and Marie Benesh, Dorset House Publishing, 2002, ISBN 0-932633-51-X.

48.“The Cheater Pipe,” The Software Practitioner, January-February 2002, pp. 9-10.

49.“Project Planning: It’s in the Cards,” STQE, January-February 2002, pp. 26-31.

50.“The Words We Use,” The Cutter IT E-Mail Advisor, www.cutter.com, December 2001.

51.Guest Editor of the October 2001 issue of the Cutter IT Journal. “The Future of Software Process Improvement.”

52.“Sermons of Neal Phillips, A Collection of Sermons from a Minister of the Gospel,” iUniverse.com, 2001, ISBN 0-595-19774-4

53."Cards-on-the-Wall Sessions," Software Development, July 2001, pp. 53-56.

54.“Let Us Pause to Reconsider (Again),” The Cutter IT E-Mail Advisor, www.cutter.com, June 2001.

55.Member Review Team for “SWEBOK, Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge, Trial Version 1.0,” IEEE Computer Society, May 2001.

56."Roundtable on Project Management, A SHAPE Forum Dialogue," contributor, Edited by James Bullock, Gerald M. Weinberg, and Marie Benesh, Dorset House Publishing, 2001, ISBN 0-932633-48-X.

57."People, Process, and Product: A Principle that Works at Work," presented at the Software Management Conference 2001, 14 February 2001, San Diego, California.

58.“Risk Management: We Need to Change the Name,” The Cutter IT E-Mail Advisor, www.cutter.com, January 2001.

59."Using Architecture to Save Intellectual Property," Cutter IT Journal, December 2000, pp. 23-27.

60."Removing Image Noise with Adaptive Filters," The C/C++ Users Journal, December 2000, pp. 10-23.

61.“Plan for Success, then Plan for the Blues,” The Cutter IT E-Mail Advisor, www.cutter.com, November 2000.

62."People Issues in Outsourcing," Cutter Consortium Sourcing Advisory Service, Executive Report, Vol. 1, No. 9, September 2000, www.cutter.com/consortium.

63.Book review of "The Pragmatic Programmer" by Andrew Hunt and David Longman, The C/C++ Users Journal, September 2000, pp. 66-69.

64.“Some Thoughts on Requirements Management,” The Cutter IT E-Mail Advisor, www.cutter.com, September 2000.

65.“Let Someone Else Test It,” The Cutter IT E-Mail Advisor, www.cutter.com, September 2000.

66.“Throwaway Software,” in “The Unified Process, Construction Phase,” by Scott W. Ambler and Larry L. Constantine, CMP Books, Lawrence, Kansas, 2000.

67.“Process: Antiprocess,” The Cutter IT E-Mail Advisor, www.cutter.com, July 2000.

68.“Don’t Forget to Breathe,” The Cutter IT E-Mail Advisor, www.cutter.com, May 2000.

69."Visualizing Depth Images via Rendering," The C/C++ Users Journal, May 2000, pp. 40-53.

70.“Working Out of the Comfort Zone,” The Cutter IT E-Mail Advisor, www.cutter.com, March 2000.

71.“The Most Important Project in Anyone’s Career,” The Cutter IT E-Mail Advisor, www.cutter.com, January 2000.

72."Visualizing Depth Images," The C/C++ Users Journal, December 1999, pp. 18-32.

73."Throwaway Software," Software Development, October 1999, page 64 and following.

74.“The Healthy Skeptic,” The Cutter IT E-Mail Advisor, www.cutter.com, October 1999.

75."Show Me How to Do That: 'Just Enough' Software Process for the 21st Century," Cutter IT Journal, September 1999, pp. 31-35.

76."Searching for Solutions with AI," The C/C++ Users Journal, September 1999, pp. 18-29.

77.Book review of "The Practice of Programming" by Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike, The C/C++ Users Journal, August 1999, pp. 69-70.

78.“On Second Thought,” The Cutter IT E-Mail Advisor, www.cutter.com, June 1999.

79."Back to Basics: Metrics that Work for Software Projects," Cutter IT Journal, April 1999, pp. 36-42.

80.“A Quick Cure for Painful Document Writing,” The Cutter IT E-Mail Advisor, www.cutter.com, April 1999.

81.“Negative Synergy,” The Cutter IT E-Mail Advisor, www.cutter.com, April 1999.

82.“Let Me Just Do It: A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy,” The Cutter IT E-Mail Advisor, www.cutter.com, December 1998.

83."Steganography: Hiding Information in Plain Sight," The C/C++ Users Journal, November 1998, pp. 49-59.

84."Proxy-Based Estimation," Software Development on-line edition (http://www.sdmagazine.com), July 1998.

85."How People Drive the Outsourcing Process (Sometimes off the Road), " Cutter IT Journal (formerly American Programmer), July 1998, pp. 37-42.

86."The Software Project Manager's Handbook, Principles that Work at Work," IEEE Computer Society, 1998, ISBN 0-8186-8300-7.

87."Decision-Making with Production Systems," The C/C++ Users Journal, February 1998, pp. 57-66.

88."Information Hiding in C via Modular Programming," The C/C++ Users Journal, January 1998, pp. 57-60.

89."Is Your Project a Dilbert Cartoon?" in the Open Channel Column of Computer, November 1997, pp. 10.

90."How to Make a V--shaped Spiral - and Vice Versa," American Programmer, August 1997, pp. 23-26.

91."Configuration Management: Understanding the Big Picture," Software Development, December 1996, pp. 47-53.

92."Project Management: Filling in the Gaps," the manager column, IEEE Software, July 1996, pp. 17-18.

93."Technocentrism," in the Open Channel Column of Computer, May 1996, p. 136.

94.Book review of "A Discipline for Software Engineering," by Watts S. Humphrey, The C/C++ Users Journal, May 1996, pp. 61-62.

95."Configuration Management: The Rule Book for Complex Projects," American Programmer, April 1996, pp. 29-33.

96."Image Processing, Part 16: Random Dot Stereograms," The C/C++ Users Journal, April 1996, pp. 53-62.

97."The Backpropagation Neural Network," The C/C++ Users Journal, January 1996, pp. 49-58.

98.Book review of "A Discipline for Software Engineering," by Watts S. Humphrey, Control Engineering Practice, December 1995, pp. 1787-1788.

99."Image Processing, Part 15: Basic Texture Operations," The C/C++ Users Journal, November 1995, pp. 55-68.

100."Image Processing, Part 14: Warping and Morphing," The C/C++ Users Journal, October 1995, pp. 55-68.

101."Image Processing, Part 13: Geometric Operations," The C/C++ Users Journal, August 1995, pp. 23-36.

102."People, Process, and Product," American Programmer, January 1995, pp. 15-20.

103."Image Processing, Part 12: Boolean and Overlay Operations," The C Users Journal, November 1994, pp. 53-70.

104."Evidence in Knowledge-Based Systems - Maintaining Beliefs," PC AI, July/August, 1994, pp. 28-30.

105."Image Processing in C," R&D Publications Inc., 1601 West 23rd Street, Suite 200, Lawrence, Kansas, 66046-0127, 1994, ISBN 0-13-104548-2.

106.Book review of "C Elements of Style," by Steve Oualline, The C Users Journal, March 1994, pp. 115-116.

107."Neural Network Basics," Circuit Cellar INK - The Computer Applications Journal, September 1993, pp. 36-43.

108."Image Processing, Part 11: Manipulating Shapes," The C Users Journal, August 1993, pp. 59-100.

109."A Revision Control System for MS-DOS," The C Users Journal, July 1993, pp. 33-50.

110."Image Processing, Part 10: Segmentation Using Edges and Gray Shades," The C Users Journal, June 1993, pp. 67-98.

111."Image Processing, Part 9: Histogram-Based Image Segmentation," The C Users Journal, February 1993, pp. 63-88.

112.Book reviews of "C Programming Guidelines, 2nd Edition," by Thomas Plum and "C++ Programming Guidelines," by Thomas Plum and Dan Saks, The C Users Journal, January 1993, pp. 119-120.

113."Image Processing, Part 8: Image Operations," The C Users Journal, November 1992, pp. 89-116.

114."Image Processing, Part 7: Spatial Frequency Filtering," The C Users Journal, October 1992, pp. 71-92.

115.Book review of "Neural Networks in C++: An Object-Oriented Framework for Building Connectionist Systems," by Adam Blum, The C Users Journal, October 1992, pp. 101-102.

116."The Foundation of Neural Networks: The Adaline and Madaline," The C Users Journal, September 1992, pp. 69-92.

117.User Report on "Power C Compiler," The C Users Journal, September 1992, pp. 53-54.

118."Networks That Think: Neural Networks Learn to Remember," Computer Shopper, July 1992, pp. 757-758.

119."LZW Data Compression," Circuit Cellar INK - The Computer Applications Journal, June/July 1992, pp. 36-48.

120.Book review of "Designing and Writing Online Documentation: Help Files to Hypertext," by William Horton, IEEE Software, May 1992, pp. 113-114.

121."Data Compression Using Huffman Coding," The C Users Journal, February 1992, pp. 55-72.

122."Image Processing, Part 6: Advanced Edge Detection," The C Users Journal, January 1992, pp. 47-63.

123."OOP (Object Oriented Programming): Now it's Hot," Computer Shopper, November 1991, pp. 734 ff.

124."Image Processing, Part 5: Writing Images to Files and Basic Edge Detection," The C Users Journal, November 1991, pp. 75-102.

125."The Big Squeeze: A Technical Look at Two Data Compression Algorithms," Computer Shopper, September 1991, pp. 699 ff.

126."Image Processing, Part 4: Histograms and Histogram Equalization," The C Users Journal, August 1991, pp. 59-70.

127."Data Compression Using the LZW Method," The C Gazette, Vol. 5, No. 5, August/September, 1991.

128."Image Processing, Part 3: Displaying and Printing Images Using Halftoning," The C Users Journal, June 1991, pp. 89-104.

129."A New Approach to Analyzing Aerial Images," accepted for presentation and publication in the Fourth International Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, June 2-5, 1991, Kauai, Hawaii, ACM-IEEE.

130."Image Processing, Part 2: Displaying Images and Printing Numbers," The C Users Journal, May 1991, pp. 117-126.

131."Image Processing, Part 1: Reading the Tag Image File Format," The C Users Journal, March 1991, pp. 92-100.

132.Book Review of "Mastering Technical Writing," by Joseph C. Mancuso, IEEE Software, January 1991, pp. 99-100.

133.Book Review of "Numerical Recipes in C," by William H. Press, Brian P. Flannery, and Saul A. Teukolsky, The C Users Journal, December 1990, pp. 103-105.

134."A New Approach to Analyzing High Resolution Aerial Photographs of Urban Areas," PhD Dissertation, Louisiana State University, August 1990.

135."A New Approach to Analyzing Aerial Photographs," The Fifth Rocky Mountain Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Las Cruces, New Mexico, June 1990.

136."Documentation Tool Builds Action Diagrams," A User Report on C-DOC Documentation Tools, The C Users Journal, pp. 107-111, Vol. 8, No. 6, June 1990.

137."Belief Maintenance and the Dempster-Shafer Theory of Evidence," The C Users Journal, pp. 67-78, Vol. 8, No. 3, March 1990.

138.Book Review of "The Psychology of Everyday Things," by Donald A. Norman, reprinted in The Proceedings of the IEEE, August 1989.

139."Stop revising, start finishing," in The Open Channel section of IEEE's Computer, August 1989.

140.Book Review of "The Psychology of Everyday Things," by Donald A. Norman, in IEEE Software, May 1989.

141.Book Review of "How to Write a Usable User Manual," by Edmond H. Weiss, in IEEE Software, November 1988.

142."Using a Top-Down and Bottom-Up Strategy to Analyze High Resolution Aerial Photographs of Urban Areas," Proceedings: First International Conference on Industrial & Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence & Expert Systems, June 1988.

143."Scene Analysis of High Resolution Aerial Scenes," Optical Engineering, Vol. 25, No. 3, March 1986, pp. 347-355, with Charles Harlow, Mohan Trivedi, and Richard Conners.

144."Image Processing with the Ada Programming Language and the Intel IAPX 432 Microprocessor," Master's Thesis, Louisiana State University, December 1984.