Guest Speaker |
Gerard Meszaros, Chief Scientist |
Date |
Thursday, February 7th, 2008 |
Description |
This interactive session introduces the key concepts of collaboration as a tool for creating highly committed teams that get the job done quickly and with high quality. Highly committed, accountable teams aren't created by traditional "command & control" management techniques; they are the result of collaborative leadership and good facilitation skills. Gerard describes some of the benefits and opportunities for collaboration on software projects and introduces some key techniques for facilitating collaborative team events. Slides from Gerard Meszaros' talk on using collaboration to build team commitment: Event Slides |
About the Speaker |
Gerard Meszaros is a Calgary-based consultant specializing is agile development processes. He is a frequent speaker and tutorial presenter at major international conferences on topics ranging from "Right-sizing User Stories" and "Adding Usability Testing to Agile Projects" to "xUnit Test Patterns and Smells." He is the author of the Jolt Award finalist book "xUnit Test Patterns – Refactoring Test Code" published by Addison Wesley Professional in the Martin Fowler Signature Series. |
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