Rich McCabe presented: Managing for Technical Excellence at the PM Reston luncheon 17 Sept. 2014

1. Managing forTechnical Excellence
Rich McCabe
Agile Coach
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3. How does a(technically dubious)
Managerpromote technical excellence?

5. How Should We Promote
Management Excellence?
Training
Best practice
standards
Auditors
Mentor/Coach Pair Management
Community
of Practice
Goals &
Metrics

6. How we promote technical excellencedepends somewhat on
what it is…
What is technical excellence, anyways?

7. Technical Excellence is …
Best
practices
Metrics of …
Business Product
Outcomes Characteristics
Creative
response to
complexity
Following
the
rules
A culture of
ongoing investment in evolving practice
Do and improved outcomes
Assess
Plan
Work done
by experts

8. Finally—promoting technical excellence…
FIRST – Want it
Hire for it
Communicate
LAST – Prioritize for it
Promote not prescribe

9. Resources of Interest
•JurgenAppeloManagement 3.0--Chapters 10-11
•Tom DeMarco
oSlack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency
o“Mad About Measurement” from Why Does Software Cost So Much? And Other Puzzles of the Information Age
Rich McCabe
rich.mccabe@santeon.com
703-424-5895
www. santeon.com
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