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NYC SPIN Meeting Announcement
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Date: February 1, 2010 (Rescheduled from 1/18)
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Topic: Ugly Teams; Managing Difficult Conversations in Agile and Offshoring
Presenter: Michael Mah
Location: Microsoft
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Date: February 1, 2010 (Rescheduled from 1/18)
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Topic: Ugly Teams; Managing Difficult Conversations in Agile and Offshoring
Presenter: Michael Mah
Location: Microsoft
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Synopsis:
Ugly Teams:
Managing Difficult Conversations in
Agile and Offshoring
Ugly teams are ones that break down and fail – sometimes regardless of whether they’re implementing Agile or about managing offshore teams. In the rush to be faster, better, cheaper, or super-innovative, it’s possible to become trapped in organizational dysfunction, even to the extent whereby good medicine won’t work? What are common sources of dysfunction today? How do you manage these difficult conversations?
In this presentation, Michael Mah will show examples of companies that have overcome barriers to success, plus a few who didn’t. You’ll learn how systems theory plays a role in software development, why complex communication and expert thinking are the penultimate challenges facing knowledge workers today, and how accurate and reliable metrics are key to revealing patterns so that managers can find the right path through their software development jungle.
Michael Mah is managing partner at QSM Associates Inc. He teaches, writes, and consults to technology companies on estimating and managing software projects, whether in-house, offshore, waterfall, or agile. He is the director of the Benchmarking Practice at the Cutter Consortium, a US -based IT think-tank. With over 25 years of experience, QSM has derived productivity patterns for thousands of projects collected worldwide. His work examines time-pressure dynamics of teams, and its role in project success and failure. His background is in physics and electrical engineering, and he is a mediator specializing in conflict resolution for technology projects. He can be reached at www.qsma.com. Click here to RSVP for the rescheduled Meeting
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. He, is also co-author with Tom DeMarco of 
. Both books won Software Development magazine’s Jolt Award as General Computing Book of the Year, for 2003-2004, and 2008-2009. Tim and Tom are also co-authors of 
now available in 14 languages.