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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
  • The Psychology of Decision-Making in a Software Development Organization
  • Interpersonal Dynamics on the Chain of Command
  • Personality Issues (the Prima Donna)
  • Management Style and Its Effects on Productivity
  • Team Dynamics and its effects on the project
  • Manager vs. Leader - Important Differences in Management Style
  • Communication vs. Process Formalization
  • Risk Analysis and Mitigation
  • Development Environments - collaboration for distributed environments
  • Dealing with "Dilbert" Marketing Organizations
  • Group Fusion - The impact on productivity
  • The Schedule Monster and Tools to Deal With Them
  • Technology Selection - Necessary/Appropriate/Acceptable/Cool
  • Systems Architecture
  • Managing Through Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Software Development - Is There Still Room for the Cowboy?
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Software Development Practices and the Effects on the "ilities"
  • Reaching Consensus on, and Managing Quality Throughout the SDLC
  • Matching the Requirements Process to Your Project
  • Team Dynamics and Organization Runtime Environments
  • Enhancement vs. Maintenance Releases
  • Third Party IP Effects on the Bottom Line
  • Capital Equipment Decisions
  • How the Problem Space Affects the Choice of Software Development Life Cycle


                   
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