Workshop Objective: Maybe your team has come to you with a request/demand to do “Agile.” But you can’t tell what you’ll get if they do. If you’ve become accustomed to the artifacts from a phase gate lifecycle (or even a strictly iterative or strictly incremental lifecycle), moving to iterative/incremental development is quite difficult. Not only is
Workshop Objective: If you’ve been reading the software engineering literature, you know that Agile is all the rage. But moving from a phase gate lifecycle (or even a strictly iterative or strictly incremental lifecycle) to iterative/incremental development is quite difficult. Not only is the project planning different from planning up front, but moving from technical practices
Workshop Objective: After this workshop, you will be able to develop appropriate project plans for a software project and execute those plans, reviewing risks, and making appropriate tradeoffs. This workshop is based on my project management book: Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management. Workshop Overview: This workshop presents project leadership planning and implementation for sofware-oriented
Workshop Objective: If you’re managing multiple concurrent projects or a series of releases, you’re managing programs. This workshop will help you learn multiple approaches to uniting your projects or keeping your series of releases on track using agile approaches. Workshop Overview: Program managers make the strategic decisions across the organization for the good of the total product.
A Refreshing Learning Experience for Software Managers A management workshop developed and led by Johanna Rothman and Esther Derby based on their popular and pragmatic book, Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management. More than salary, perks, or a spacious cubicle, an employee’s relationship with his or her direct supervisor determines work satisfaction and productivity. A
Workshop Objective: You’ve started the transition to Scrum or some other agile lifecycle for your projects. You can see that it’s working well for the teams. And, now you realize you still have problems. You still have emergency projects. Or, you have emergency fixes. Or, you have specialists that have to be on more than one
Workshop Objective: If you’re dreading the next project—because you know it will be a disaster, or at the very least uncomfortable—it’s time to think about designing your next project. We’re accustomed to thinking about designing products or tests, but projects? Is it really possible to design a project? Yes. Lifecycles, those idealized approaches to organizing
Workshop Objective: How do you separate the talkers from the doers? How do you know this person will fit with your team? This workshop teaches you what you need to know to conduct an effective interview. You won’t have to ask questions that people can recite canned answers to, such as, “Tell me your weaknesses.” You
Workshop Objective: Hiring the right people at the right time in a high technology company remains a challenge even to experienced managers. This workshop prepares technical managers (or the HR folks who work with technical managers) for the preparation and hiring of people into the organization. Workshop Overview: This workshop walks you through a pragmatic approach to
Workshop Objective: This experiential workshop helps agile technical teams prepare, interview, and select candidates. This workshop prepares people who may have only been on one side of the interview as a candidate to effectively participate on an interviewing team and effectively evaluate candidates. This workshop specifically address the cultural issues and particulars of finding candidates who