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Deconstructing The Code For Product Excellence
by Cindy F. Solomon
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Everyone is passionate about product excellence - but in reality, is it possible to achieve? This interactive discussion will lay the foundation for how to define product excellence in your organization, product team according to your own standards; recognize the 7 phases of the product management lifecycle; understand perspectives of customers, users and others consuming your code, and isolate soft skills to help you communicate, collaborate and align with non-technical team members

Host - Global Product Management Talk, weekly broadcast showcasing product experts, startups, innovation, management and excellence. Organizer - StartUp Product Talks community. Creator - ProdMgmtTalk mobile app. Producer - Startup Product Summit conference

Cindy F. Solomon Host - Global Product Management Talk, weekly broadcast showcasing product experts,... www.blogtalkradio.com/prodmgmttalk /Presenter/2013/CindyF-Solomon-5062 CA @prodmgmttalk
301 Community
406 Career Development
544 management
617 Product Management
658 Business
700 Marketing
722 Best Practic
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Deconstructing The Code For Product Excellence

Everyone is passionate about product excellence - but in reality, is it possible to achieve? This interactive discussion will lay the foundation for how to define product excellence in your organization, product team according to your own standards; recognize the 7 phases of the product management lifecycle; understand perspectives of customers, users and others consuming your code, and isolate soft skills to help you communicate, collaborate and align with non-technical team members

Removing Impediments
by Chris Sims
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Impediments prevent you and your team from making progress or doing your best work. We will use a simple three step system to identify, analyze, and remove impediments so that your team can deliver maximum value. We will use games and simulations to explore the different types of impediments that arise for real development teams, and then apply the 3 step model overcome those impediments. Bring your impediments and be prepared to have fun with them!

Chris Sims is a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), agile coach, and recovering C++ developer who helps software development teams improve their productivity and happiness.Chris is the founder of Agile Learning Labsas well as the Bay Area Agile Managers Support Group. He is co-author of The Elements of Scrum and has published over 50 articles on agile topics at InfoQ. Even more of his writing can be found on the Agile Learning Labs blog.

Chris Sims Chris Sims is a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), agile coach, and recovering C++ developer... AgileLearningLabs.com /Presenter/2013/Chris-Sims-1661 CA ChrisSims True True
143 Agile
195 Scrum
246 Project Management
418 lean
540 Coaching Skills
544 management
617 Product Management
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Removing Impediments

Impediments prevent you and your team from making progress or doing your best work. We will use a simple three step system to identify, analyze, and remove impediments so that your team can deliver maximum value. We will use games and simulations to explore the different types of impediments that arise for real development teams, and then apply the 3 step model overcome those impediments. Bring your impediments and be prepared to have fun with them!
Agile at Enterprise Scale: The Tricky Bits
by Bernie Maloney
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Want to build a high performing team? How about a high performing business at enterprise scale? Agile thrives with individual teams, yet even Ken Schwaber asserts 75% of organizations using scrum won't succeed in getting the benefits they hope for from it. Many such organizations have been structured by default along hierarchical lines, rather than by design for iterative work. A set of established and emerging ideas to address organizational impediments point to a future where Agile introductions Go Big, rather than Go Home. Not simply theory, this session will overlay these ideas onto a real world example of a hw/sw business that scaled from break even to $4B in 4y. Come learn some Tricky Bits to help run Agile at Enterprise Scale.

I lead. For fun. As an intra*preneur, I've grown businesses from break even to beyond $100M. My teams have delivered award winning retail products; more times than many may believe. I thrive in ambiguous environments & love bringing order out of chaos, turning strategies into results.

Bernie Maloney I lead. For fun. As an intra*preneur, I've grown businesses from break even to beyond... http://about.me/berniemaloney /Presenter/2013/Bernie-Maloney-3768 CA @berniemaloney True True
143 Agile
247 Engineering Process
493 Enterprise maturity
544 management
545 team building
638 process improvement
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Agile at Enterprise Scale: The Tricky Bits

Want to build a high performing team? How about a high performing business at enterprise scale? Agile thrives with individual teams, yet even Ken Schwaber asserts 75% of organizations using scrum won't succeed in getting the benefits they hope for from it. Many such organizations have been structured by default along hierarchical lines, rather than by design for iterative work. A set of established and emerging ideas to address organizational impediments point to a future where Agile introductions Go Big, rather than Go Home. Not simply theory, this session will overlay these ideas onto a real world example of a hw/sw business that scaled from break even to $4B in 4y. Come learn some Tricky Bits to help run Agile at Enterprise Scale.
Twelve Take-Aways: Managing the Unmanageable
by Ron Lichty
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About 95 percent of programming managers had no management training before being tapped to manage. Ron Lichty and his co-author Mickey W. Mantle, both former programmers, didn't either. About half of managers still haven't. Ron and Mickey were lucky enough to work for companies like Apple and Pixar that provided some training. But even then, little of it was specific to managing programmers, or to managing programming teams. It motivated years of weekend breakfasts during which they traded insights on the challenges they faced - and solutions they had used and seen - which led them to grasp they had independently both been collecting rules of thumb and nuggets of wisdom both from their peers around the world as well as from the thought leaders of programming management. They had been sharing insights and best practices for a decade when they realized they wanted to share the best of what they had collected and learned - and wished they'd had when they started managing. That desire led them to write Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams, http://www.ManagingTheUnmanageable.net (Addison Wesley) - that reviewers have repeatedly compared to The Mythical Man-Month, the classic on software development challenges. In this interactive session, we'll look at twelve best practices that make programming managers great - you'll take away twelve best practices that take most managers years to discover.

CTO-to-go. Programmer. Manager. Author, Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams (Addison Wesley, 2012)

Ron Lichty CTO-to-go. Programmer. Manager. Author, Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and... www.ronlichty.com /Presenter/2013/Ron-Lichty-2920 CA @RonLichty True True
405 Career Preparation
406 Career Development
526 Team Management
540 Coaching Skills
543 Recruiting
544 management
545 team building
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Twelve Take-Aways: Managing the Unmanageable

About 95 percent of programming managers had no management training before being tapped to manage. Ron Lichty and his co-author Mickey W. Mantle, both former programmers, didn't either. About half of managers still haven't. Ron and Mickey were lucky enough to work for companies like Apple and Pixar that provided some training. But even then, little of it was specific to managing programmers, or to managing programming teams. It motivated years of weekend breakfasts during which they traded insights on the challenges they faced - and solutions they had used and seen - which led them to grasp they had independently both been collecting rules of thumb and nuggets of wisdom both from their peers around the world as well as from the thought leaders of programming management. They had been sharing insights and best practices for a decade when they realized they wanted to share the best of what they had collected and learned - and wished they'd had when they started managing. That desire led them to write Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams, http://www.ManagingTheUnmanageable.net (Addison Wesley) - that reviewers have repeatedly compared to The Mythical Man-Month, the classic on software development challenges. In this interactive session, we'll look at twelve best practices that make programming managers great - you'll take away twelve best practices that take most managers years to discover.
Create Influence, On Demand
by Bernie Maloney
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Who do you know who might know someone who could SEE a benefit in CLEARLY sharing their ideas? Or, do you simply wish you could persuade stormtroopers these are not the 'droids they're looking for? Would you like to influence how others perceive you when networking, leading teams or interviewing? In this interactive (that means audience participation!) session we’ll cover: * Why this works * Simple, verbal techniques to build rapport fast * Practice on how to build and break rapport (helpful to keep discussions concise!) Come learn some simple, yet subtle techniques to shift communication effectiveness by a factor of 5 or more. And while participants are advised away from initial use with stormtroopers, VCs, angels, executives and clients are fair game.

I lead. For fun. As an intra*preneur, I've grown businesses from break even to beyond $100M. My teams have delivered award winning retail products; more times than many may believe. I thrive in ambiguous environments & love bringing order out of chaos, turning strategies into results.

Bernie Maloney I lead. For fun. As an intra*preneur, I've grown businesses from break even to beyond... http://about.me/berniemaloney /Presenter/2013/Bernie-Maloney-3768 CA @berniemaloney True True
143 Agile
246 Project Management
285 Marketing
544 management
617 Product Management
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Create Influence, On Demand

Who do you know who might know someone who could SEE a benefit in CLEARLY sharing their ideas? Or, do you simply wish you could persuade stormtroopers these are not the 'droids they're looking for? Would you like to influence how others perceive you when networking, leading teams or interviewing? In this interactive (that means audience participation!) session we’ll cover: * Why this works * Simple, verbal techniques to build rapport fast * Practice on how to build and break rapport (helpful to keep discussions concise!) Come learn some simple, yet subtle techniques to shift communication effectiveness by a factor of 5 or more. And while participants are advised away from initial use with stormtroopers, VCs, angels, executives and clients are fair game.

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