Google Tech Talks
May 6, 2008

ABSTRACT

When you look around, there
are a lot of leaders
recommended for software
development. We have the
functional manager and the
project manager, the scrum
master and the black belt, the
product owner and the
customer-on-site, the
technical leader and the
architect, the p
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Google Tech Talks
May 6, 2008

ABSTRACT

When you look around, there
are a lot of leaders
recommended for software
development. We have the
functional manager and the
project manager, the scrum
master and the black belt, the
product owner and the
customer-on-site, the
technical leader and the
architect, the product manager
and the chief engineer.

Clearly that's too many
leaders. So how many leaders
should there be, what should
they do, what shouldn't they
do, and what skills do they
need?

This will be a presentation
and discussion of leadership
roles in software development
-- what works, what doesn't
and why.

Speaker: Mary Poppendieck
Mary Poppendieck started her
career as a process control
programmer, moved on to manage
the IT department of a
manufacturing plant, and then
ended up in product
development, where she was
both a product champion and
department manager.

Mary considered retirement
1998, but instead found
herself managing a government
software project where she
first encountered the word
'waterfall.' When Mary
compared her experience in
successful software and
product development to the
prevailing opinions about how
to manage software projects,
she decided the time had come
for a new paradigm. She wrote
the award-winning book Lean
Software Development: An Agile
Toolkit in 2003 to explain how
the lean principles from
manufacturing offer a better
approach to software
development.

Over the past six years, Mary
has found retirement elusive
as she lectures and teaches
classes with her husband Tom.
Based on their on-going
learning, they wrote a second
book, Implementing Lean
Software Development: From
Concept to Cash in 2006. A
popular writer and speaker,
Mary continues to bring fresh
perspectives to the world of
software development.

Speaker: Tom Poppendieck
Tom Poppendieck has 25 years
of experience in computing
including eight years of work
with object technology. His
modeling and mentoring skills
are rooted in his experience
as a physics professor. His
early work was in IT
infrastructure, product
development, and manufacturing
support, and evolved to
consulting project assignments
in healthcare, logistics,
mortgage banking, and travel
services.

Tom led the development of a
world-class product data
management practice for a
major commercial avionics
manufacturer that reduced
design to production
transition efforts from 6
months to 6 weeks. He also led
the technical architecture
team for very large national
and international Baan and SAP
implementations.

Tom Poppendieck is an
enterprise analyst and
architect, and an agile
process mentor. He focuses on
identifying real business
value and enabling product
teams to realize that value.
Tom specializes in
understanding customer
processes and in effective
collaboration of customer,
development and support
specialists to maximize
development efficiency, system
flexibility, and business
value.

Tom is co-author of the book
Lean Software Development: An
Agile Toolkit, published in
2003, and its sequel,
Implementing Lean Software
Development: From Concept to
Cash, published in 2006.

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