7 Deadly Habits of Ineffective Software Managers

Date:
May 7, 2012

Time:
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm Add to Google Calendar

Location:
Grove Arcade
1 Page Ave Asheville, NC 28801
Asheville

Presented as a series of case studies, these all-too-real situations can be difficult to know how to prevent and handle. Whether you are an experienced manager or just starting out in management, you’ll take away valuable tips and techniques for avoiding software management deadly habits.

Agenda topics are as follows:

Habit 1: Releasing a Product Before It is Ready
Habit 2: Hiring Someone Who is Not Quite Qualified (but Who Everyone Likes)
Habit 3: Making Every Decision a Consensus Decision
Habit 4: Promising Developers Incentives
Habit 5: Delegating Absolute Control to a Project Manager
Habit 6: Taking Too Long to Negotiate Feature Sets and Schedules
Habit 7: Ignoring a Process in Order to Release Quickly

We even created a comix on this very subject that you’ll want to look at! (Doesn’t everybody like comic books?)

About the Speaker

Ken Whitaker, of Leading Software Maniacs™ (LSM), has more than twenty-five years of software development executive leadership and training experience in a variety of technology roles and industries. He has led commercial software teams at Software Publishing (remember Harvard Graphics?), Data General (engineering manager in the “Soul of a New Machine” days), embedded systems software companies, and enterprise software suppliers. Ken is a PMI R.E.P. training vendor and is proud to be associated with the Lewis Institute.

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