VPE/CTO Community of Practice: Upcoming Topics

The following topics have been requested to be addressed in upcoming meetings. In keeping with our tradition of finding the highest quality presenters, each of these topics will be scheduled for a meeting when a suitable speaker can be located. Scheduling of each topic below will be done upon location of an outstanding speaker.

Models for Motivating Teams and Keeping Them Current with Technology
Team Organization for Maximizing Productivity
Managing Cultural Diversity
Requirements Gathering - When Is Enough, Enough?
Capability Maturity Model (CMM) - How To Get The Most Bang For The Buck
Effectively Capturing and Communicating Software Architecture
Offshoring/Outsourcing
Best Practices for Improving Average Programmers
Managing Dual Technical and Management Ladders in Organizations
The CEO and CFO Perspective on Engineering Organizations
Models For Marketing/Engineering Interaction Styles That Work
Personality Issues In Engineering Teams (the Prima Donna)
Enhancement vs. Maintenance Releases
Successfully Integrating Mergers and Acquisitions
Dealing with "Dilbert" Marketing Organizations
Development Environments – collaboration for distributed environments
Team Dynamics and Its Impact on the Organization
Effectively utilizing highly experienced, "mature" engineers

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