33 DNUG Conference > 2. Konferenztag: 17.11.2010 > Session 4

Bob Balaban
(Looseleaf Software)
http://www.bobzblog.com

How to make a software development project fail (BP9)
Datum: 11/17/2010
Uhrzeit: 11:45 - 12:30
Raum: Raum Rhein

Anyone can make software projects succeed, but it takes special skill to make them reliably fail, time after time.
Come to this session to learn the secrets of guaranteed failure, such as: sabotage staffing, reduced-resourcing, goofy goal-setting, ridiculous rewarding and mangled management. Learn how to save money, assign blame and trash teams. These techniques will serve you especially well if you are in business to produce and sell anti-social software or un-collaborative systems.

You will benefit from this session if you are a manager or leader of development teams. The less skill you currently have in destroying software projects, the more you will learn! Attendees who know anything about writing code will probably know less when they leave than when they arrived.

Why should you attend?
Software development projects consume vast amounts of corporate resource. Learn how to waste these resources more effectively

Benefits for the attendees
Anyone can deliver high-quality, efficient software. It takes a skilled practitioner to derail a project and make it fail in a spectacular fashion

Skills
Some interest in or experience with project management will be helpful

Technical level
The less, the better