Webster is Principal and Founder at Bruce F. Webster & Associates, as well as an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Brigham Young University. He works with organizations to help them with troubled or failed information technology (IT) projects. He has also worked in several dozen legal cases as a consultant and as a testifying expert, both in the United States and Japan. He can be reached at bwebster@bfwa.com, or you can follow him on Twitter as @bfwebster.
Just talked on the phone with my son Jon (LCPL Jon A. Webster, USMC). His deployment to Iraq is being moved up a few weeks, and he’ll be flying out of Camp Pendleton at the start of July. He’ll try to call one more time before he flies out, but after that we probably won’t […]
Gallup has released its latest “public confidence” poll, a survey it has been taking for 35 years. In this poll, the Gallup representative says, “I am going to read you a list of institutions in American Society. Please tell me how much confidence you, yourself, have in each one — a great deal, quite a […]
This story has been making the rounds of the news services and the internet: NICE guys knew it, now two studies have confirmed it: bad boys get the most girls. The finding may help explain why a nasty suite of antisocial personality traits known as the “dark triad” persists in the human population, despite their […]
My newest Baseline column is up: “Lies, Damned Lies, and Project Metrics (part 3)“. In it, I wrap up my discussion on IT project metrics, outlining a possible approach using instrumentation and heuristics. Go check it out. ..bruce..
The following is a slightly edited version of the eulogy I gave for my father, John Arthur Webster, on June 21, 1997, when we as a family scattered his ashes out at sea off the Southern California coast. My father’s life spanned three-fourths of this [the 20th] century and was, perhaps, as pure an example […]
Oh, for things that might have been. I saw “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” on opening day, and — for all the grumblings that I’ve seen in other reviews — I actually liked it. Shia LaBeouf wasn’t as bad as I feared, and it was a joy seeing Karen Allen — […]
My newest Baseline column is up: “Lies, Damned Lies, and Project Metrics (part 2)“. In it, I talk about why it’s so hard to apply metrics to IT project management and begin to suggest an approach. Go check it out. ..bruce w..
[06/17/08: Many thanks for Rand Simberg for the link from Transterrestrial Musings, one of my favorite blogs. C’mon, folks, I want Rep. Dicks to have a lifetime supply of motor oil. I want the whole Subcommittee to have a lifetime supply of motor oil. And then some.] It’s time for action. Oil is at $130/barrel, […]
He deliberately put himself at risk — and died — in order to save his wife’s life: MOUNT RAINIER — Battered by a blizzard on the slopes of this mountain, Eduard Burceag lay down in a snow trench, trying to use his body’s warmth to protect his wife, Mariana, from the 70-mph winds. Rangers alerted […]
Republicans:terrorism :: Democrats:globalization
Daniel Drezner is one of those bloggers I read regularly, even though I don’t always agree with him — and when I don’t agree with him, I consider even more carefully what he has to say, in case I’m wrong. This paragraph, however, I think is dead on: You know how Bush officials like to […]
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