Papers and publications
Articles, experience reports, and research papers on agility, estimation, uncertainty, and leading knowledge work, along with earlier work from my years in petroleum engineering software.
Book
Stand Back and Deliver: Accelerating Business Agility
Pollyanna Pixton, Niel Nickolaisen, Todd Little, and Kent McDonald. Addison-Wesley, 2009.
Practical tools for leaders, including the Purpose Alignment Model and the Context Leadership Model.
Articles and papers
- To Estimate or #NoEstimates, that is the QuestionT. Little, C. Verhoef, submitted to IEEE SoftwareProcess
- Leveraging Global Talent for Effective Test AgilityT. Little, Experience Report, Agile2012, August 2012, DallasTechnology
- Integrating Software by Integrating PeopleT. Little, Experience Report, Agile2008, August 2008, TorontoPeople
- Determining IT's Strategic and Tactical RolesN. Nicholiasen, P. Pixton, and T. Little, Cutter IT Journal, July 2007, Vol. 20, No. 7Business Value
- Assessing the Cost of Outsourcing: Efficiency, Effectiveness and RiskT. Little, IEEE EQUITY 2007, March 2007, AmsterdamBusiness Value
- Project Leadership in the FutureT. Little and Ole Jepsen, 2006Leadership Foundation
- Software Schedule Estimation and Uncertainty Surrounding the Cone of UncertaintyT. Little, IEEE Software, May 2006, Vol. 23, No. 3Process
- Context Adaptive Agility: Managing Complexity and UncertaintyT. Little, IEEE Software, April 2005, Vol. 22, No. 2Process
- Value Creation and Capture, a Model of the Software Development ProcessT. Little, IEEE Software, June 2004, Vol. 21, No. 2Business Value
- A Portfolio Management Perspective of OutsourcingT. Little, Software Test Managers Workshop (STMR), May 2004, Melbourne, FLPeople
- Adaptive Agility: Managing Complexity and UncertaintyT. Little, F. Greene, T. Phillips, R. Pilger and R. Poldervaart, Agile Software Development Conference, June 2004Process
- Exploration and Real Options as an Analogy for Software DevelopmentT. Little, Agile Software Development Conference, June 2003Leadership Foundation
Earlier work: petroleum engineering software
- Buy, Build, Beg or Borrow: Delivering Applications in the New Age of Software DevelopmentT. Little and S. Webb, SPE 38120, SPE Computer Applications, December 1997
- Implementing Virtual Reality Interfaces for the GeosciencesW. Bethel, J. Jacobsen, A. Austin, M. Lederer, T. Little, Norwegian Society of Chartered Engineers and Ostfold Research Foundation Virtual Reality in GeoSciences Conference Proceedings, June 1996, Halden, Norway
- An Object Oriented Solution to an Interdisciplinary 3D Visualization ToolC. Sinclair, T. Little, M.A. Rahi, SPE 27545, 1994 European Petroleum Computer Conference Proceedings, March 1994. Subsequently published in SPE Computer Applications, June 1995, Volume 7, Number 3
- Buy don't Build - What does that Mean for a Software DeveloperT. Little, M.A. Rahi, C. Sinclair, SPE 28255, 1994 Petroleum Computer Conference Proceedings, July 1994. Subsequently published as SPE 30886, Journal of Petroleum Technology, June 1995, Volume 47, Number 6
- Migrating Legacy Petroleum Engineering Applications to Open Systems EnvironmentsT. Little, D. Chien, M.A. Rahi, C. Sinclair, SPE 27560, 1994 European Petroleum Computer Conference Proceedings, March 1994. Subsequently published in SPE Computer Applications, June 1996, Volume 8, Number 3
- SAVE: An Alliance for Reservoir Simulation Software IntegrationH. Haringa, T. Little, A. Austin, R. Aydelotte, SPE 36759, Journal of Petroleum Technology
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