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Andy Kaufman, Institute for Leadership Excellence & Development Inc. |
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In this highly interactive session, Andy Kaufman helps you wrestle
with real-world leadership issues we all face—influencing without authority,
motivating your team, and dealing with conflict. Explore the difference between
leadership and management—and why it matters—and get a clear picture
of a leader’s responsibilities, including the balance between short-term and
long-term focus and the need to deliver results while developing organizational
capability. Discuss the importance of developing the leadership skills of your team
members, including practical ways to do so even with a limited training budget.
Andy delves into the importance of one-on-one relationships and delivers proven
insights on managing upward, dealing with peers, and developing stronger bonds both
inside and outside your organization. Accelerate your ability to influence your
organization, your projects, and your career to become the leader your team needs
and demands. Walk away with practical tools to help you lead your team, including
a template for formalizing a team charter and a reproducible survey to solicit
leadership feedback from bosses, peers, stakeholders, and team members.
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Andy Kaufman
helps people around the world become better leaders so they can more reliably
deliver results while having a life. He is an international speaker and executive
coach and president of the Institute for Leadership Excellence & Development
Inc. Andy is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP)® and is the author
of Navigating the Winds of Change: Staying on Course in Business & in Life,
How to Organize Your Inbox & Get Rid of E-Mail Clutter, and Shining
the Light on The Secret. |
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As the popularity of agile development spreads, more and more
companies are discovering that simply breaking down projects into small iterations
is not sufficient. Agile methods require changes in management, analysis, architecture,
design, testing, and quality assurance, as well as project management. Given the
substantial adjustments required, where can a team or enterprise look for guidance
in its transition? Learning the required skill sets individually is fraught with
problems—analysis, design, code, and test are not independent; they must be
integrated. Join Alan Shalloway as he describes the landscape of skills that a development
team needs to become effective agile developers. He discusses a set of principles
and practices that integrate the guidance provided by lean, agile methods, design
patterns, and more. In particular, Alan details how agile analysis and design patterns
support agile methods and how core “lean” principles support all agile
methods, including design and test-driven development.
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Alan Shalloway is
the founder and CEO of Net Objectives. With more than thirty-five years of experience,
Alan is an industry thought leader, trainer, and coach in the areas of lean software
development, the lean-agile connection, Scrum, agile architecture and using design
patterns in agile environments. He is a popular speaker at prestigious conferences
worldwide. Alan is the primary author of Design Patterns Explained:
A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design and is currently writing a book on Lean
Anti-Patterns. |
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Lee Copeland, Software Quality Engineering |
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You deal with software requirements all the time. Whether you
are a developer in an agile environment, an analyst who gathers and documents requirements
for plan-driven development, a software designer who studies requirements as the
basis of your work, a tester who employs or often must discover requirements as
the foundation of test cases, or a technical user who describes your needs to development,
you need the right approaches and skills to develop and interpret software requirements.
Join Lee Copeland to learn how to identify all the important stakeholders of a system
and better ways to elicit and capture requirements in different settings: one-on-one
interviews, meetings, brainstorming and Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions,
buddy checks, inspections, ambiguity reviews, and retrospectives. Discover ways
to ferret out the big risks, unknowns, and unresolved conflicts that often doom
projects from the start.
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With more than thirty years of experience as an information
systems professional at commercial and nonprofit organizations,
Lee Copeland has worked in applications development, software testing,
and software process improvement. Lee has developed and taught numerous training
courses on software development and testing issues and is a well-known speaker with
Software Quality Engineering. The author of the popular reference book, A Practitioner’s
Guide to Software Test Design, Lee presents at software conferences around the world.
He is a frequent contributor to StickyMinds.com and managing technical editor for
Better Software magazine. |
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Paco Hope, Cigital |
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The key to proactive, effective computer system security is
getting a risk-management handle on the problem of security inside the software.
Created by the experts who literally wrote the book on software security, this interactive
session encompasses the software security awareness and best practices you need
to achieve a secure and trustworthy environment. Everyone involved in software development
requires baseline knowledge of software security problems and risks, along with
an overall understanding of approaches for producing secure software. Join Paco
Hope in this interactive session as he defines the software security problem and
then describes a set of software security principles, touch points, and key concepts
that can be integrated into any software development lifecycle. Paco describes how
and why software is exploited and presents an overview of architectural risk analysis,
security testing, and advanced tools for code review. Learn why software security
is everyone’s job, and take back an overview of your next steps for adopting
a comprehensive software security program.
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A managing consultant at Cigital,
Paco Hope has more than twelve years of experience in software and operating
system security with areas of expertise in software security policy, code analysis,
host security, and PKI. Paco has worked significantly with embedded systems in the
gaming and mobile communications industries and has also served as a subject matter
expert on issues of network security standards in the financial industry. Prior
to joining Cigital, he served as director of product development for Tovaris, Inc.,
and head systems administrator in the Department of Computer Science at the University
of Virginia. Paco is co-author of Mastering FreeBSD and OpenBSD Security.
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Pollyanna Pixton, Accelinnova
Todd Little, LGC |
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Leaders today are faced with an incredible challenge—delivering
the right results to changing marketplaces, doing more with limited resources, improving
processes to reduce costs, opening new markets, and keeping the company from falling
into chaos. Amazingly though, the solutions to many challenges are already held
within your organization and team. How do you unleash the talent within and foster
the flow of innovative ideas? In this hands-on and highly interactive session, Pollyanna
Pixton and Todd Little introduce the principles of collaboration and the tools you
need to create collaborative cultures in your team and organization. Combining principles
with practice, you will learn how to use a proven collaboration process to generate
new ideas and embrace change, identify barriers to innovation and agility, and discover
novel ways to implement solutions. Practice these techniques and tools to become
a more collaborative leader while learning the process for leading upwards and outwards.
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An international collaborative leadership
expert, Pollyanna Pixton developed the models
for collaboration and collaborative leadership through her thirty-five years of
working inside and consulting with corporations and organizations. She helps companies
create workplaces where talent and innovation are unleashed—making them more
productive, efficient, and profitable. Pollyanna is a founding partner of Accelinnova,
president of Evolutionary Systems, director of the Institute for Collaborative Leadership,
and co-author of the forthcoming book, Stand Back and Deliver, A Leader's Guide
to the Agile Enterprise due out in November 2008. She co-founded the Agile Project
Leadership Network (APLN) and chaired the Agile 2006 Leadership Summits in London
and Minneapolis. Contact her at
ppixton@accelinnova.com. |
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Todd
Little is a senior development
manager for Landmark Graphics Corporation. For more than twenty-five years, he has
been involved in almost all aspects of software development with a focus on commercial
software applications. Todd is on the Board of Directors for the Agile Alliance,
a co-author of the Declaration of Interdependence for Agile Project Leadership,
and a founding member and current president of the Agile Project Leadership Network
(APLN). Todd is a well-known speaker and writer on software engineering topics, including
business value, uncertainty, complexity, and leadership. |
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Beth Layman, Layman and Layman |
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Today’s fast-paced business environments require
just-in-time decisions based on the best information available. What initiatives
should we fund? Are we getting value from our efforts and investments? Are we getting
better over time? Project teams are concerned with their ability to meet budgets
and schedules, whether they will be ready to release as planned, and whether customer
requirements have been satisfied. Beth Layman explains the concepts of Practical
Software Measurement (PSM) to define measurement programs that can improve your
decision-making. Beth discusses the role of measurement at all levels of the enterprise
and how history, culture, and maturity influence the measurement footprint. She
describes how to use an issue-driven measurement approach by defining what to measure,
how to collect the data, how to analyze the information, and how to use the results.
Beth illustrates this approach through real-world case studies. Take away a practical
approach for measuring what’s important to your organization and learn ways
to avoid the typical measurement roadblocks that plague many organizations.
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A successful process improvement consultant, facilitator,
teacher, and coach with more than twenty-five years of experience in the high tech
sector, Beth Layman is an authority on measurement
and process improvement. Her wide-ranging experience includes commercial, government,
aerospace, and product software organizations. Beth provides training and interactive
workshops, assessments, management consulting, and coaching in areas such as process
definition, management, and improvement, software and performance measurement, project
and portfolio management, and software quality assurance. Beth is an SEI Authorized
CMMI® Lead Appraiser and is co-author of Practical Software Measurement:
Objective Information for Decision Makers. |
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Rob Myers, Net Objectives |
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Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a powerful technique for combining software design,
testing, and coding to increase reliability and productivity. Rob Myers demonstrates
the basic and essential TDD techniques, including unit testing with the common xUnit
family of open source development frameworks, refactoring code, and using mock/fake
objects in development. Use exercises to practice the techniques. With many years
of product development experience using TDD, Rob will address the questions that
arise during your own relaxed exploration of the techniques.
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Attendees should have strong programming skills and be familiar with an object-oriented
language and programming techniques. Each delegate should bring a laptop installed
with your favorite programming language and IDE—and come prepared to write
code. Rob can provide JUnit for Java and NUnit for any .NET language. For any other
language choice (e.g., C++ or Ruby), you will need to install (and verify) your
chosen xUnit framework prior to the tutorial. |
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Rob
Myers has over twenty years of professional experience in software
development, including projects for industry leaders in medical, aerospace, and
financial services. In the late 1990s, Rob became an eXtreme Programming coach and
traveled throughout the country assisting teams with agile software development
practices and object-oriented design techniques. Rob brings to the classroom his
passion for Lean software development, team development, and sane work environments.
He currently teaches Test-Driven Development and Refactoring, Effective .NET, and
a new Test-Driven ASP.NET course. |
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Linda Rising, Independent Consultant |
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You’ve tried and tried to convince people of your position.
You’ve laid out your logical arguments on impressive PowerPoint slides—but
you are still not able to sway them. Cognitive scientists understand that the approach
you are taking is rarely successful. Often you must speak to others’ subconscious
motivators rather than their rational, analytic side. Linda Rising shares influence
strategies that you can use to more effectively convince others to see things your
way. These strategies take advantage of a number of hardwired traits: “liking”—we
like people who are like us; “reciprocity”—we repay in kind; “social
proof”—we follow the lead of others similar to us; “consistency”—we
align ourselves with our previous commitments; “authority”—we
defer to authority figures; and “scarcity”—we want more of something
when there is less to be had. Learn how to build on these traits as a way of bringing
others to your side. Use this valuable toolkit in addition to the logical left-brain
techniques on which we depend.
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Linda Rising has
a Ph.D. from Arizona State University in the field of object-based design metrics
and a background that includes university teaching and industry work in telecommunications,
avionics, and strategic weapons systems. An internationally known presenter on topics
related to patterns, retrospectives, and the change process, Linda is the author
of Design Patterns in Communications, The Pattern Almanac 2000, A Patterns
Handbook, and co-author with Mary Lynn Manns of Fearless Change: Patterns
for Introducing New Ideas. Find more information about Linda at www.lindarising.org. |
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