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M030    Meetings in Software Development

Everyone goes to meetings—but not everyone knows how to run them! This workshop teaches you how to run effective meetings. You will study sample meeting invitations, agendas and minutes. You will review individual, group, department, project, status and other types of meetings, and benefit from some role-playing exercises.

Benefits
After completing this workshop, you will know how to organize and run much more productive meetings.

Topics Covered

  • When to call a meeting
  • When to go to meetings
   

  • How to handle one-on-one meetings
  • How to avoid unproductive meetings
  • The secret power of intimidation in meetings
  • How to get project buy-in with different meeting strategies

Who Should Attend
Anyone in software development who calls or attends meetings including Test Leads, Developer Leads, Managers, Directors and Executives.

Learning Approach
Lecture, Team, Individual, Group, Examples

Suggested Prerequisites
P010  ESQA: The Effective SQA Manager or
P011  EDEV: The Effective Development Manager


About the Instructor
Robert Sabourin, P. Eng. has 20+ years management experience leading teams of software development professionals to consistently deliver projects on-time, on-quality and on-budget. He is a well-respected member of the software engineering community who has managed, trained, mentored and coached hundreds of top professionals in the field. He frequently writes and speaks to conferences around the world on software engineering, SQA, testing, management and internationalization.


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