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b'Show 34 is the beginning of my interview with Phil Armour.\\xa0 I am calling this interview, \\u201cEstimation Ain\\u2019t Planning\\u201d.\\xa0 I must admit that I have been quoting this interview since I taped it.\\xa0 Amazingly powerful concepts, so powerful I decided to revisit estimation. \\n\\n\\n\\n\\nPhillip G. Armour is VP for Systems Development and a Senior Consultant at Corvus International Inc.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nPhil has been developing software for over thirty-five years.\\xa0 He has been a programmer, analyst, project manager, DBA, systems architect, process engineer, metrics engineer, consultant, and executive coach and has worked for organizations as diverse as United Airlines, Motorola, Argonne National Laboratory, General Dynamics, the IRS, the premier software consulting company in India, and the largest cellular service provider in Central West Africa.\\xa0 In the last fifteen years, Phil has personally taught software development techniques and management principles to over 20,000 developers, engineers, managers, and executives.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nPhil\\u2019s primary professional focus is currently in two related areas: software project estimation and software technical team development.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nSince 2000, Phil has been a contributing editor on ACM\\u2019s flagship magazine \\u201cCommunications of the ACM\\u201d and writes a regular column entitled \\u201cThe Business of Software\\u201d where he explores issues to do with the nature and challenges of modern software.\\xa0 He has been on the extended faculty at the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management and the Mendoza School of Business at the University of Notre Dame.\\xa0 \\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nPhil is also the author of \\u201cThe Laws of Software Process\\u201d published by Auerbach in 2003. \\xa0He is a member of ACM, IEEE, and the Project Management Institute.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nTelephone:\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 (847)-438-1609Fax:\\xa0 \\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 (847)-438-1638Email:\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 \\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 \\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nThe essay is titled \\u201cEstimation, Planning and Goals: All Different I Say!\\u201d. \\xa0\\xa0The essay explores the confusion of words used in project planning and control.\\xa0 The essay may be due to my long-term issue with a how words are used and misused, false levels of precision or just the fact that the process relating to the software engineering disciplines like estimation continue to prove to be difficult to implement regardless of the development method used. \\xa0The text of the essay can be found at .\\xa0 Comments and corrections are welcome.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nThere are a number of ways to share your thoughts .\\xa0 \\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n Email SPaMCAST at\\xa0\\n Voice messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111\\n Twitter \\u2013 \\n BLOG \\u2013 \\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nFuture Events and the next . . .\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nConference season is beginning!\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nI will be speaking at IFPUG\\u2019s 3rd Annual ISMA Conference and Fall Workshops Sunday, September 14 \\u2013 Friday, September 19, 2008 at the Westin Arlington Gateway Hotel information at .\\xa0 The presentation is call \\u201cCounting Facebook\\u201d and will be on Friday September 19, 2008 at 10:25 AM - 11:25 AM,\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nI am speaking at Quest Toronto 2008 Conference, September 22- 26, 2008, at the Hilton Hotel in Toronto, Canada.\\xa0 I will be presenting \\u201cGood Numbers Go Bad\\u201d on Wed Sept 24th from 1:30 - 2:30 pm and also joining in as a subject matter expert in the end of day solutions workshop.\\xa0 Information can be found at \\n\\n\\n\\n\\nFinally I will be speaking at the Northeast Quality Council 57th Conference.\\xa0 The conference is scheduled for October 14 \\u2013 15 , 2008 in Marlborough, Massachusetts at Best Western Royal Plaza.\\xa0\\xa0 The presentation is titled \\u201cOne Size Fits . . .Someone Other Than Me\\u201d.\\xa0 Information can be found at . \\n\\n\\n\\n\\nNext Software Process and Measurement Cast: \\n\\n\\n\\n\\nOn the next SPaMCAST I will interview Charlene Li of Forrester Research, co-author of \\u201c\\u201d.\\xa0 We talked about opinion how are social networks and strategies rewriting the organization and its relations to its customers.'