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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