Website updated.<br><br><a href="http://baypiggies.net/index_html/eventfolder/baypiggies-meeting-August-27th-2009">http://baypiggies.net/index_html/eventfolder/baypiggies-meeting-August-27th-2009</a><br>-Bill<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Alex Martelli <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aleax@google.com">aleax@google.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Here's a blurb, I hope it's about the right length...:<br>
<br>
"""<br>
Managing software development projects can benefit from some<br>
approaches that are rather different from most traditional management<br>
techniques. Software developers operate with their own particular<br>
mindset, culture and reward system. To motivate and inspire a top<br>
programming team, one type of ideal manager is a technical peer who<br>
can jump into the code and work hands-on, together with the<br>
developers, to solve thorny problems. Such technical involvement can<br>
keep a project moving forward and help the manager build credibility<br>
and trust within the team.<br>
<br>
In this talk, Alex Martelli discusses some common management myths,<br>
and shares some immediately useful advice for anyone involved in<br>
managing software development projects.<br>
"""<br>
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Alex<br>
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On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:36 AM, William Deegan<<a href="mailto:bdbaddog@gmail.com">bdbaddog@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Alex,<br>
><br>
> Can you provide a small blurb about the Management Talk and I'll update the<br>
> website.<br>
><br>
> -Bill<br>
><br>
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 6:55 AM, jim <<a href="mailto:jim@well.com">jim@well.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> the management talk seems the best choice for us,<br>
>> given our choices. if you confirm (some talk, any<br>
>> talk), you're on, with thanks and a free dinner for<br>
>> two (arrangements to be made some time in the future,<br>
>> possibly the next hour or two).<br>
>> jim<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 22:47 -0700, Alex Martelli wrote:<br>
>> > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Anna Ravenscroft<<a href="mailto:annaraven@gmail.com">annaraven@gmail.com</a>><br>
>> > wrote:<br>
>> > > Isn't a PyGame Week coming up? Can someone talk about that?<br>
>> > ><br>
>> > > Alex is willing to give his talk on technical management, if folks<br>
>> > > haven't seen that one.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > I'm happy to give a talk on any subject I haven't yet covered at<br>
>> > Baypiggies: the problem is only with finding out what subject I<br>
>> > _haven't_ done at BP yet!-) I've been around the Bay Area for 4+<br>
>> > years and have spoken at BP quite often, after all;-).<br>
>> ><br>
>> > I do believe I've never given my "tech management" talk there, and<br>
>> > that's a deep one that I can spin in a bazillion ways, though not very<br>
>> > Python-specific. Have I done "dependency injection" at BP? "Somewhat<br>
>> > Advanced Python" (bytecode disassembly, hacks &c)? Code Reviews for<br>
>> > Fun and Profit? Py3K? etc, etc.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Preparing a new from-scratch preso in 40 hours is a stretch (since I<br>
>> > do also have semi-emergencies going on at work), but tailoring any<br>
>> > existing one (on a subject I _haven't_ already covered at BP!!!-)<br>
>> > would be just fine.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > So can somebody pls let me know ASAP so I get off <a href="http://stackoverflow.com" target="_blank">stackoverflow.com</a><br>
>> > (currently my biggest "free time" timesink;-) and switch to tailoring<br>
>> > a BP preso? TIA!-)<br>
>> ><br>
>> ><br>
>> > Alex<br>
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