"Seven Unbreakable Rules of Software Leadership" with Steve McConnell
Title: Seven Unbreakable Rules of Software Leadership
Speaker: Steve McConnell
Date: January 7, 2020
Description:
Congratulations. You've earned a job as a software executive. Now what? Do you know what it takes to keep it? More important, do you know what it takes to excel? After more than 10 years of working with top software executives across a full spectrum of software-intensive industries, noted author and software engineer Steve McConnell has found a method for predicting which technical executives will be successful in their organizations and which will end up looking for different positions. In this one-hour webinar, McConnell describes the seven crucial rules that lead software executives first to satisfactory performance and ultimately to superior performance and superior results.
Speaker
Steve McConnell
CEO and Chief Software Engineer, Construx Software
Steve McConnell is CEO and Chief Software Engineer at Construx Software where he consults to a broad range of industries and oversees Construx's consulting and training offerings. Steve is the best-selling author of the industry classic Code Complete as well as Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art, Rapid Development, and other titles. Steve has served as Editor in Chief of IEEE Software magazine and Chair of the IEEE Computer Society's Professional Activities Board. Readers of Software Development magazine voted Steve one of the three most influential people in the software industry, along with Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds. Steve can be reached at [email protected].
Moderator
Will Tracz
Lockheed Martin Fellow Emeritus (retired); Former chair, ACM SIGSOFT
When he retired, Dr. Tracz was a principal software engineer/application architect for the Global Combat Support System - Air Force (GCSS-AF) program. He is currently the Special Projects Coordinator of the ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (SIGSOFT), a member of the ACM Professional Development Committee, and US, ACM representative of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Technical Committee (TC) 2 - Software Theory and Practice. He has served as the editor of the ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, general chair of the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), and the ACM Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE).