Wayne Goode

Being a manager is just about managing projects. If you want to be successful, you also need to know how to lead people. Everyone has an opinion about leadership. But where can you look for proven leadership techniques? Your brain! The presentation will examine four facts about how your brain operates. Audience activities will help demonstrate some of these principles. For each brain fact, an analogous leadership lesson will be presented. You will learn 4 rock solid principles you can use to avoid the most common pitfalls of being a leader. Each leadership lesson will be illustrated with examples from real life. If you are a manager or other leader, or what to be one, this is information you need to know. Plus, you will learn some interesting facts about how your brain works. Learn leadership lessons from a proven source: your brain!

Software Engineering is often viewed as just paperwork. But if applied in a practical manner, it can improve the way your team develops software. This presentation is a high-level view of software engineering from a practical viewpoint. It will be useful to people wanting to create a software engineering process, managers who need to understand what software engineering is and those looking to improve their existing process. The presentation is not about Agile or any other specific methodology. Instead, it focuses on the reasons to use Software Engineering and its key concepts. Some of the key concepts covered will be: * Development Methodologies * Phases of Software Development * Architectural Design Patterns (MVC, etc.) * Design Diagrams (Layer, Sequence, Class, etc.) * Continuous Integration * Testing (Unit, Regression, System, etc.) * Dependency Injection * Project Management (Including bug & progress tracking) * Version Control

You have something to say that others need to hear: skills, experiences or maybe just a status report. How can you present it so that people want to listen? This presentation will cover four topics for being a better speaker. 1. The Communications Model puts all the principles of communication together to show how they work. Learn how receivers, transmitters, channels and encoding/decoding work together to communicate a message. 2. Why are so many people afraid of public speaking? There is a very good reason--that is actually totally irrelevant. This presentation will explain the cause of the fear of public speaking and how to overcome it. 3. Every speech should have a point. Before you create a speech, you need to know what The Point is. You will learn how to discover The Point and use it to organize your presentation. 4. Once you know the point, you need to create the speech. Learn what to put in a speech to keep people's attention and to get your point across.