Monday, January 31, 2011

CANCELED: NYC SPIN 2/1: Michael Mah - Ugly Teams: Managing Difficult Conversations in Agile and Offshoring

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED DUE TO WEATHER.

The NYC SPIN is pleased to welcome back Michael Mah. We are looking forward to another great evening. Michael's topic this time is: "Ugly Teams: Managing Difficult Conversations in Agile and Offshoring ".


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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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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.
Biography - Michael Mah
  
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




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Directions


 Microsoft
1290 Avenue of the Americas
(between 51st and 52nd Streets)




By Train/Subway


Not all trains run at all times and subway schedules are subject to change. For current schedules, weekly service advisories and maps, contact the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) at (718) 330-1234 or visit the subway section of the MTA Web Site.

The following are nearby subway stops:

B,D,F,M to 47th-50th St./Rockefeller Center
N,R,Q to 49th St. (at 7th Avenue)
1,A,C,E to 50th St. (at 8th Ave)
E to 7th Ave  (at 53rd St)





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Tuesday, January 25, 2011

NYC SPIN 2/15: Tim Lister: We Need It Before The End Of The Year: What’s Your Estimate?


The NYC SPIN is pleased to welcome back Tim Lister. We are looking forward to another great evening. Tim's topic this time is: "We Need It Before The End Of The Year: What’s Your Estimate?".


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Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) Training - NYC February 15 - 16, 2011

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February 2011 NYC SPIN Meeting Announcement
********************************************************************** 
Date: February 15, 2010
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Topic:
We Need It Before The End Of The Year: What’s Your Estimate?
Presenter: Tim Lister
Location: Microsoft
*********************************************************************

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Platinum Sponsor
Rally Software
Rally Software
is the recognized leader in Agile application lifecycle management (ALM), dedicated to helping organizations embrace Agile.

Gold Sponsor
  BigVisible
Other Sponsors


Microsoft (our meeting venue host)


KuperPresents.com (hosting and managing our website)


Pearson Education/InformIT (providing books we raffle off at NYC SPIN events)





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Synopsis:

We Need It Before The End Of The Year:
What’s Your Estimate?

No matter what your position on a project you must be a good estimator of your work, and it is a cardinal sin to let good estimates by smart people get overwhelmed by the strong desires of powerful people. Accurate estimates are the foundation of all critical project decisions regarding staffing, functionality, delivery date, and budget. How do we accurately estimate in a world where tradition declares that the deadline is set before the requirements are even known? 


Tim will offer practical advice on dealing with this thorny issue. He will present strategies and tactics for project estimating and will describe his favorite estimating metric, the Estimating Quality Factor (EQF). By thinking that goals are important and so are good estimates, you will be on the road to better quality and better projects.
Biography - Tim Lister
  
Tim Lister is a software consultant at the Atlantic Systems Guild, Inc., based in the New York office. He divides his time between consulting, teaching, and writing. Tim is a co-author with his Guild partners of Adrenalin Junkies and Template Zombies: Understanding Patterns of Project Behavior, (Dorset House, 2008). He, is also co-author with Tom DeMarco of Waltzing With Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects (Dorset House, 2003). 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 Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, (Dorset House, 1999) now available in 14 languages.

Tim is currently a member of the Cutter IT Trends Council. He is a member of the I.E.E.E. and the A.C.M.  He is in his 28th year as a panelist for the American Arbitration Association, arbitrating disputes involving software and software services.  


Click here to RSVP for the February Meeting


Directions


 Microsoft
1290 Avenue of the Americas
(between 51st and 52nd Streets)




By Train/Subway


Not all trains run at all times and subway schedules are subject to change. For current schedules, weekly service advisories and maps, contact the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) at (718) 330-1234 or visit the subway section of the MTA Web Site.

The following are nearby subway stops:

B,D,F,M to 47th-50th St./Rockefeller Center
N,R,Q to 49th St. (at 7th Avenue)
1,A,C,E to 50th St. (at 8th Ave)
E to 7th Ave  (at 53rd St)





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Wednesday, January 19, 2011

NYC SPIN 2/15: Tim Lister: We Need It Before The End Of The Year: What’s Your Estimate?


The NYC SPIN is pleased to welcome back Tim Lister. We are looking forward to another great evening. Tim's topic this time is: "We Need It Before The End Of The Year: What’s Your Estimate?".


Click here to RSVP for the February Meeting


==============================================================
To join the NYC SPIN or to renew your membership, please use the "registration" option at the link below:


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==============================================================
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==============================================================

Other Events:

From BigVisible (Gold Sponsor)

Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) Training - NYC February 15 - 16, 2011

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) - NYC February 17 - 18, 2011

 
==============================================================
Project Management Professionals (PMPs) earn 1 PDU credit for attending a NYC SPIN presentation. (The NYC SPIN is a "Category 4 Education Provider".)

Click here to RSVP for the February Meeting


February 2011 NYC SPIN Meeting Announcement
********************************************************************** 
Date: February 15, 2010
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Topic:
We Need It Before The End Of The Year: What’s Your Estimate?
Presenter: Tim Lister
Location: Microsoft
*********************************************************************

PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS


Platinum Sponsor
Rally Software
Rally Software
is the recognized leader in Agile application lifecycle management (ALM), dedicated to helping organizations embrace Agile.

Gold Sponsor
  BigVisible
Other Sponsors


Microsoft (our meeting venue host)


KuperPresents.com (hosting and managing our website)


Pearson Education/InformIT (providing books we raffle off at NYC SPIN events)





==============================================================
Registration ends February 14th at (or when all seats are filled)



Click here to RSVP for the February Meeting



 **PLEASE ONLY REGISTER ONCE**
To manage your registration and/or membership, follow the instructions
at the top this message.
==============================================================
 

Synopsis:

We Need It Before The End Of The Year:
What’s Your Estimate?

No matter what your position on a project you must be a good estimator of your work, and it is a cardinal sin to let good estimates by smart people get overwhelmed by the strong desires of powerful people. Accurate estimates are the foundation of all critical project decisions regarding staffing, functionality, delivery date, and budget. How do we accurately estimate in a world where tradition declares that the deadline is set before the requirements are even known? 


Tim will offer practical advice on dealing with this thorny issue. He will present strategies and tactics for project estimating and will describe his favorite estimating metric, the Estimating Quality Factor (EQF). By thinking that goals are important and so are good estimates, you will be on the road to better quality and better projects.
Biography - Tim Lister
  
Tim Lister is a software consultant at the Atlantic Systems Guild, Inc., based in the New York office. He divides his time between consulting, teaching, and writing. Tim is a co-author with his Guild partners of Adrenalin Junkies and Template Zombies: Understanding Patterns of Project Behavior, (Dorset House, 2008). He, is also co-author with Tom DeMarco of Waltzing With Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects (Dorset House, 2003). 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 Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, (Dorset House, 1999) now available in 14 languages.

Tim is currently a member of the Cutter IT Trends Council. He is a member of the I.E.E.E. and the A.C.M.  He is in his 28th year as a panelist for the American Arbitration Association, arbitrating disputes involving software and software services.  


Click here to RSVP for the February Meeting


Directions


 Microsoft
1290 Avenue of the Americas
(between 51st and 52nd Streets)




By Train/Subway


Not all trains run at all times and subway schedules are subject to change. For current schedules, weekly service advisories and maps, contact the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) at (718) 330-1234 or visit the subway section of the MTA Web Site.

The following are nearby subway stops:

B,D,F,M to 47th-50th St./Rockefeller Center
N,R,Q to 49th St. (at 7th Avenue)
1,A,C,E to 50th St. (at 8th Ave)
E to 7th Ave  (at 53rd St)





Click here to RSVP for the February Meeting


==============================================================
**PLEASE ONLY REGISTER ONCE**
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membership, follow the instructions
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