On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Bob Rogers wrote: > Edward Tufte is coming to Boston on March 3, 4, and 5 to give his > famous one-day course [1]. I've never been to one myself, but I've > heard (including at Boston.PM meetings) that's it's really good -- and > the books speak for themselves. When I showed the brochure to the > CEO, his eyes lit up. So not only is our entire software development > team going to attend, plus maybe some of the scientists, but the CEO > may come too.
Ehhhh.... I have the first three books, and I *really* like them. (I only found out recently that there's a fourth one now, which I don't have yet, but I imagine I'll like it too once I get a copy.) I went to the seminar he gave in Boston a few years ago (2003?), and was underwhelmed. I really wanted to like it. It was impressive to see the actual physical examples he cites in the books (text from Galileo, etc). But he also spent most of the time just reading the books to us, with kind of a "gee aren't these great" air. Which they are, I'll grant, but I was hoping for a bit more than that. Then he spent an hour or so showing us piles of metal in his yard. Great glorious photos of pillars of twisted gleaming steel. Don't ask why. If you haven't read the books, you'll get a lot out of the seminar. If you've read them, you'll get the re-read to you. Oh and you'll get another copy of the books. So there's that, too. I'm glad I went, once, but was underwhelmed overall :-/ -- Chris Devers DO NOT LEAVE IT IS NOT REAL _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
