Helpful Colleagues

Catalysis Group
Payson Hall delivers no-nonsense, practical consulting about project management. His classes on project management and creative problem solving are outstanding.

Quality Tree Software
Elisabeth Hendrickson consults about software testing. Her marvelous Creative Software Testing class starts with a few seemingly simple ideas about testing, then shows you how to apply these ideas not just to create test cases, but to create new ideas about how to create test cases. And she’s a blast to work with!

Sue Petersen
Sue Petersen, the Coding Cowgirl, writes articles and book reviews of interest to software developers.

Satisfice, Inc.
James Bach provides leading-edge training and consulting about software testing.

Strider and Cline
Wayne and Eileen Strider help to build more fully human organizations. Many times, they have helped me gain clarity about my work and the people I work with.

Gerald M. Weinberg
Jerry Weinberg’s workshops, books, and friendship have been instrumental in my development as a manager, leader, and consultant.

Helpful Communities

Resistance as a Resource Yahoo! Group
A community of organizational change artists who see resistance as valuable information that can support positive change.

Jerry Weinberg’s SHAPE Forum
A community of software leaders who see Software as a Human Activity Practiced Effectively.

StickyMinds.com
A community of software testers and quality professionals.

Bookshelved.org
A wiki for book lovers, created by Laurent Bossavit. Visit my Bookshelved wiki page to see what books I’m reading, and which books I recommend.

Helpful Magazines and Publishers

Dorset House Publishing
Dorset House publishes a small number of highly valuable books for the computer industry.

Software Development MagazineSoftware Development Magazine writes for corporate developers and technical managers about the people, products, and practices of corporate development.

Better Software Magazine
Practical, nuts-and-bolts articles on software testing and quality, with a healthy dose of people stuff.

Friends and Family

Powertronic, Inc.
Powertronic, operated by my brother David, services electrical equipment for commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities in the New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania area.

dale.emery.name
My personal web page, where I show off some of my non-business creations.