Richard Sykes's guest appearances

Richard Sykes

Desert Island Discs: Archive 1996-2000

Software Process and Measurement Cast

The Howler

Rectors of Imperial

College Golf Talk

David Marquet

Elizabeth Harrin

Ron Rosenhead

Pawel Brodzinski

Bill Bryson

Helena Kennedy

Rick Stein

Nina Campbell

Nicole Kidman

Glenda Jackson

Jeff Perry

Ralph Fiennes

William Gibson

Richard Curtis

Antony Gormley

OwlTail

On this episode of College Golf Talk, Steve Burkowski and Brentley Romine debrief after some dominant performances at Blessings Golf Club before recapping a loaded men’s event at Colonial and USC women’s win in the Windy City. They then preview the Stephens Cup next week at Seminole, where Stanford and Rose Zhang will be in attendance. And last but not least, they recount some of the best stories and quotes from the late Richard Sykes, the legendary coach who spent 46 years at North Carolina State.

Blessings, Colonial recaps; Tribute to Richard Sykes

Page Marsh

Richard Sykes and Page Marsh of NC State Golf (March 31st, 2017)

Welcome to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 260The Software Process and Measurement Cast 260 features my interview with Dr Richard Sykes.  Dr Sykes is the chair of the Board of Directors of the TMMi Foundation. The TMMi is the Testing Maturity Model Integration. When it comes to testing the TMMI is more than just a model!Dr Richard Sykes is a businessman with a breadth of involvement &amp; experience that spans the chemical industry, the IT industry and the world of arts. He has held senior executive roles in a major global multinational and non-executive chairmanships in a number of smaller ventures - and has lived and operated internationally.Today Richard has a personal practice ('Dr Richard Sykes') as a board-level trusted advisor, assurer, strategic coach &amp; facilitator. He works with senior management in the practical shaping of effective business information &amp; communications technology (ICT) strategies &amp; their implementation, sourcing &amp; governance. He has a particular expertise in the workings of the ICT Services and Business Process, sourcing &amp; outsourcing market place - including through the agency of 'the Cloud'. His focus here is in coaching the development and practical implementation of business strategies that will deliver quality, sustainable stakeholder returns in these very competitive markets. He works with both the Vendor and the Enteprise/Public Sector user aspects of the market place.In delivering his role as a strategic advisor, Richard particularly collaborates with Gavin Bowden-Hall, the Director and Managing Consultant of Strategic Sourcing and Procurement Services Ltd, and with Sue Tompkins and Jessica Long, joint Directors of EQ Partnering.He also acts as an experienced non-executive chairman of the boards of small young ventures in both the IT industries and in the arts world.And importantly for this interview Richard is Chairman of the TMMi Foundation, dedicated to improving test processes and practice. It is a non-profit making organization and the focus of the Foundation's activities is the development of a common, robust model of test process assessment and improvement in IT organisations. www.TMMiFoundation.orgThe Software Process and Measurement Cast has a sponsor . . .As many you know I do at least one webinar for the IT Metrics and Productivtity Intstiute (ITMPI) every year. The ITMPI provides a great service to the IT profession. ITMPI's mission is to pull together the expertise and educational efforts of the world's leading IT thought leaders and to create a single online destination where IT practitioners and executives can meet all of their educational and professional development needs. THe ITMPI offers a premium membership that gives members unlimited free access to 400 PDU accredited webinar recordings, and waives the PDU processing fees on all live and recorded webinars.  The Software Process and Measurement Cast recieves a fee if you sign up using the URL in the show notes.  http://mbsy.co/fGdw  All revenue our sponsors goes for bandwidth, hosting and new cool equipment to create more and better content for you!  Support the SPaMCAST and learn from the ITMPI!THe Software Process and Measurement Cast is a proud member of the Tech Podcast Network.  If it is tech it is on the Tech Podcast Network.  Check out the Software Process and Measurement and other great podcasts on the TPN!  TPN:  www.techpodcast.comDo you have a Facebook account?  If you do please visit and like the Software Process and Measurement Cast page on Facebook.  http://ow.ly/mWAgU The Daily Process Thoughts is my project designed to deliver a quick daily idea, thought or simple smile to help you become a better change agent. Each day you will get piece of thought provoking text and a picture or hand drawn chart to illustrate the idea being presented. The goal is to deliver every day; rain or shine, in sickness or in health or for better or worse! Check it out at . Shameless Ad for my book!  co-authored by Murali Chematuri and myself and published by J. Ross Publishing. We have received unsolicited reviews like the following: "This book will prove that software projects should not be a tedious process, neither for you or your team."NOW AVAILABLE IN CHINESE! Have you bought your copy?It is conference season!Agile Phily - AgileTour 2013http://www.ifpug.org/?page_id=980Time: October 7, 2013 from 12:30pm to 4:30pmLocation: EbayEnterprise (previously known as GSI Commerce) in King of PrussiaStreet: First AvenueCity/Town: King of Prussiahttp://www.agilephilly.com/events/agiletour-2013AgileDC - Agile, it's not just for big complex projects anymore.Date: October 8, 2013 http://agiledc.org/Testrek 2013October 28-30, 2013 to the Eaton Chelsea Downtown Toronto!http://www.qaitestrek.org/2013Toronto/Agile Practical Techniques WorkshopMonday, October 28, 2013: 8:30 AM - 4:30 PMFormat: Full-day ClassAgile Practical Techniques Workshop helps developers, testers, business analysts, scrum masters and project managers to develop an understanding of Agile development techniques focusing on concepts such as test driven development that integrate testing into the Agile process. The workshop combines concepts from Agile (e.g. Scrum, xP and Test Driven Development) and Learning Organizations, providing participants with the tools to both participate on Agile projects and to develop and deploy related processes.Lean Software Development WorkshopTuesday, October 29, 2013: 8:30 AM - 12:00 PMFormat: Half-day TutorialLean Software Development Workshop (e.g. Kanban, Flow and Kaizen) uses a lean-agile focus to help everyone involved in developing, enhancing and maintaining software employ the Principles of Lean to enhance the delivery of value-added work. This workshop is hands-on and “things” will be thrown!Presentation: Agile Underperforming? Keys to Improving DeliveryWednesday, October 30, 2013: 9:45 AM - 10:45 AMJust because you have implemented Agile techniques does not mean you are performing to the level which your organization is capable. Is your implementation of Agile underperforming? Agile has been promoted as delivering higher customer satisfaction, better quality, faster time to market, increased productivity and — in some cases — to deliver world peace. The question is do you know and if you think you know, is your knowledge more than anecdotal? The only way to know truly is to measure.Measurement is only the first step in finding issues and taking action. Measurement provides focus. Being aware of problems and not spending the time and effort to study performance is a waste. W. Edwards Deming admonished us to have “constancy of purpose.” I would use the term “attention-span” in an attempt to make the same argument. Once we understand we have a problem, our next step is to take action and to perhaps make a difference in the value we deliver. Is your Agile underperforming? It doesn’t matter if you’re not going to fix it.Contact information for the Software Process and Measurement CastEmail:  spamcastinfo@gmail.comVoicemail:  +1-206-888-6111Website: www.spamcast.netTwitter: www.twitter.com/tcagleyFacebook:http://bit.ly/16fBWVContact information for the Software Process and Measurement CastOne more thing!  Help support the SPaMCAST by reviewing and rating the Software Process and Measurement Cast on ITunes! It helps people find the cast. Next:The Software Process and Measurement Cast 261 will be all about distributed agile.  Distributed agile takes effort but can pay HUGE benefits.

Welcome to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 260 The Software Process and Measurement Cast 260 features my interview with Dr Richard Sykes.  Dr Sykes is the chair of the Board of Directors of the TMMi Foundation. The TMMi is the Testing Maturity Model Integration. When it comes to testing the TMMI is more than just a model! Dr Richard Sykes is a businessman with a breadth of involvement &amp; experience that spans the chemical industry, the IT industry and the world of arts. He has held senior executive roles in a major global multinational and non-executive chairmanships in a number of smaller ventures - and has lived and operated internationally. Today Richard has a personal practice ('Dr Richard Sykes') as a board-level trusted advisor, assurer, strategic coach &amp; facilitator. He works with senior management in the practical shaping of effective business information &amp; communications technology (ICT) strategies &amp; their implementation, sourcing &amp; governance. He has a particular expertise in the workings of the ICT Services and Business Process, sourcing &amp; outsourcing market place - including through the agency of 'the Cloud'. His focus here is in coaching the development and practical implementation of business strategies that will deliver quality, sustainable stakeholder returns in these very competitive markets. He works with both the Vendor and the Enteprise/Public Sector user aspects of the market place. In delivering his role as a strategic advisor, Richard particularly collaborates with Gavin Bowden-Hall, the Director and Managing Consultant of Strategic Sourcing and Procurement Services Ltd, and with Sue Tompkins and Jessica Long, joint Directors of EQ Partnering. He also acts as an experienced non-executive chairman of the boards of small young ventures in both the IT industries and in the arts world. And importantly for this interview Richard is Chairman of the TMMi Foundation, dedicated to improving test processes and practice. It is a non-profit making organization and the focus of the Foundation's activities is the development of a common, robust model of test process assessment and improvement in IT organisations. <a href="http://www.TMMiFoundation.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.TMMiFoundation.org</a> The Software Process and Measurement Cast has a sponsor . . . As many you know I do at least one webinar for the IT Metrics and Productivtity Intstiute (ITMPI) every year. The ITMPI provides a great service to the IT profession. ITMPI's mission is to pull together the expertise and educational efforts of the world's leading IT thought leaders and to create a single online destination where IT practitioners and executives can meet all of their educational and professional development needs. THe ITMPI offers a premium membership that gives members unlimited free access to 400 PDU accredited webinar recordings, and waives the PDU processing fees on all live and recorded webinars.  The Software Process and Measurement Cast recieves a fee if you sign up using the URL in the show notes.   <a href="http://mbsy.co/fGdw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://mbsy.co/fGdw</a>  All revenue our sponsors goes for bandwidth, hosting and new cool equipment to create more and better content for you!  Support the SPaMCAST and learn from the ITMPI! THe Software Process and Measurement Cast is a proud member of the Tech Podcast Network.  If it is tech it is on the Tech Podcast Network.  Check out the Software Process and Measurement and other great podcasts on the TPN!   TPN:  <a href="http://www.techpodcast.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.techpodcast.com</a> Do you have a Facebook account?  If you do please visit and like the Software Process and Measurement Cast page on Facebook.  <a href="http://ow.ly/mWAgU" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://ow.ly/mWAgU</a>  The Daily Process Thoughts is my project designed to deliver a quick daily idea, thought or simple smile to help you become a better change agent. Each day you will get piece of thought provoking text and a picture or hand drawn chart to illustrate the idea being presented. The goal is to deliver every day; rain or shine, in sickness or in health or for better or worse! Check it out at .  Shameless Ad for my book!   co-authored by Murali Chematuri and myself and published by J. Ross Publishing. We have received unsolicited reviews like the following: "This book will prove that software projects should not be a tedious process, neither for you or your team." NOW AVAILABLE IN CHINESE!  Have you bought your copy? It is conference season! Agile Phily - AgileTour 2013http://<a href="http://www.ifpug.org/?page_id=980Time:" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.ifpug.org/?page_id=980Time:</a> October 7, 2013 from 12:30pm to 4:30pmLocation: EbayEnterprise (previously known as GSI Commerce) in King of PrussiaStreet: First AvenueCity/Town: King of Prussiahttp://<a href="http://www.agilephilly.com/events/agiletour-2013" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.agilephilly.com/events/agiletour-2013</a> AgileDC - Agile, it's not just for big complex projects anymore.Date: October 8, 2013 <a href="http://agiledc.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://agiledc.org/</a> Testrek 2013October 28-30, 2013 to the Eaton Chelsea Downtown Toronto!<a href="http://www.qaitestrek.org/2013Toronto/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.qaitestrek.org/2013Toronto/</a> Agile Practical Techniques WorkshopMonday, October 28, 2013: 8:30 AM - 4:30 PMFormat: Full-day Class Agile Practical Techniques Workshop helps developers, testers, business analysts, scrum masters and project managers to develop an understanding of Agile development techniques focusing on concepts such as test driven development that integrate testing into the Agile process. The workshop combines concepts from Agile (e.g. Scrum, xP and Test Driven Development) and Learning Organizations, providing participants with the tools to both participate on Agile projects and to develop and deploy related processes. Lean Software Development WorkshopTuesday, October 29, 2013: 8:30 AM - 12:00 PMFormat: Half-day TutorialLean Software Development Workshop (e.g. Kanban, Flow and Kaizen) uses a lean-agile focus to help everyone involved in developing, enhancing and maintaining software employ the Principles of Lean to enhance the delivery of value-added work. This workshop is hands-on and “things” will be thrown! Presentation: Agile Underperforming? Keys to Improving DeliveryWednesday, October 30, 2013: 9:45 AM - 10:45 AMJust because you have implemented Agile techniques does not mean you are performing to the level which your organization is capable. Is your implementation of Agile underperforming? Agile has been promoted as delivering higher customer satisfaction, better quality, faster time to market, increased productivity and — in some cases — to deliver world peace. The question is do you know and if you think you know, is your knowledge more than anecdotal? The only way to know truly is to measure. Measurement is only the first step in finding issues and taking action. Measurement provides focus. Being aware of problems and not spending the time and effort to study performance is a waste. W. Edwards Deming admonished us to have “constancy of purpose.” I would use the term “attention-span” in an attempt to make the same argument. Once we understand we have a problem, our next step is to take action and to perhaps make a difference in the value we deliver. Is your Agile underperforming? It doesn’t matter if you’re not going to fix it. Contact information for the Software Process and Measurement Cast Email:  spamcastinfo@gmail.comVoicemail:  +1-206-888-6111Website: www.spamcast.netTwitter: <a href="http://www.twitter.com/tcagleyFacebook:" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.twitter.com/tcagleyFacebook:</a><a href="http://bit.ly/16fBWVContact" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/16fBWVContact</a> information for the Software Process and Measurement Cast One more thing!  Help support the SPaMCAST by reviewing and rating the Software Process and Measurement Cast on ITunes! It helps people find the cast.  Next: The Software Process and Measurement Cast 261 will be all about distributed agile.  Distributed agile takes effort but can pay HUGE benefits.

SPaMCAST 260 - Dr Richard Sykes, TMMi, Testing

Sue Lawley's guest this week is Sir Richard Sykes. The chairman of Glaxo Welcome, as a boy he was not a natural scholar, until he went to work at the pathology laboratory of his local hospital. Understanding the application of science led him to become a research scientist at Glaxo Welcome. He describes how later the Board Room lured him away from the lab, and how he came to mastermind one of the most audacious take-overs in the city.[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Second Movement from Cello Concerto in B Minor by Antonin DvořákBook: The Origin of Species  by Charles DarwinLuxury: Telescope

Sue Lawley's guest this week is Sir Richard Sykes. The chairman of Glaxo Welcome, as a boy he was not a natural scholar, until he went to work at the pathology laboratory of his local hospital. Understanding the application of science led him to become a research scientist at Glaxo Welcome. He describes how later the Board Room lured him away from the lab, and how he came to mastermind one of the most audacious take-overs in the city. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Second Movement from Cello Concerto in B Minor by Antonin Dvořák Book: The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin Luxury: Telescope

Sir Richard Sykes