July 5 Meeting
Free and Open to the Software Engineering & IT Community
Construx Software, 10900 NE 8th St Suite 1350, Bellevue, WA
Food & networking from 5:45 to 6:15 (pizza, salad, soda )
Announcements from 6:15 to 6:30
Presentation from 6:30 to 7:45
Q & A from 7:45 to 8:15
Doors close at 8:30
Managers are from Mars, Developers are from Venus
Presented by Ted Neward
You're a manager. You've been hired to run a small (or large) development team, and for the life of you, you can't understand these people. Every time you try to motivate them, they balk and resist. You try to hire them, you can't figure out what they want and they walk away. Then, without any sort of action on your part, suddenly they put in 16-hour days, and they pull off some amazing work, but when you try to ask them to do it again for a critical update, they get angry and quit. What the heck? Where did these bizarre alien creatures come from, and how in the world are you supposed to work with them?
Bio:
Ted Neward is an independent consultant specializing in high-scale enterprise systems, working with clients ranging in size from Fortune 500 corporations to small 10-person shops. He is an authority in Java and .NET technologies, particularly in the areas of Java/.NET integration (both in-process and via integration tools like Web services), back-end enterprise software systems, and virtual machine/execution engine plumbing.
He is the author or co-author of several books, including Effective Enterprise Java, C# In a Nutshell, SSCLI Essentials, Server-Based Java Programming, and a contributor to several technology journals. Ted is also a Microsoft MVP Architect, BEA Technical Director, INETA speaker, former DevelopMentor instructor, frequent worldwide conference speaker, and a member of various Java JSRs. He lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife, two sons, and eight PCs.
Reach him at ted@tedneward.com or visit Ted's blog at http://blogs.tedneward.com/
View map by MapQuest
Going North on I-405 toward Bellevue...
- Take exit 13B for NE 8th Street
- Take the NE 8th Street West ramp
- Merge onto NE 8th Street
- Turn right onto 110th Avenue. Construx is the building on the left, on the corner of 110th Avenue and NE 8th Street
- Turn left into the parking lot immediately past the building
Going South on I-405 toward Bellevue...
- Take exit 13B for NE 8th Street
- Take the NE 8th Street West ramp
- Merge onto NE 8th Street
- Turn right onto 110th Avenue. Construx is the building on the left, on the corner of 110th Avenue and NE 8th Street
- Turn left into the parking lot immediately past the building
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SeaSpin is normally hosted by Construx Software and coordinated by Jeff Smith, Steven Smith, and Pamela Perrott. The officers are:
- Chair: Jeff Smith (contact)
- Program Chair: Steven M. Smith
The SeaSpin charter can be found here.