Development Managers & Directors

The Effective Software Development Leader

As a software development manager, your role expands tremendously beyond systems design and architecture. Team motivation skills, business skills, performance tracking skills, and a myriad of other skills become necessary to successfully manage a software development team.
 
As an effective software development manager, you should be familiar with the following:

1. Development, Database, Project Management, and Product Management concepts
2. Software development industry organizations
3. Industry data regarding software project success rates
4. Industry data prioritizing most common influential factors impacting project success and velocity
5. Top ten predominate software development lifecycle models
6. Differences between Plan-based Development vs. Agile Development and when to use each one
7. How the Project Management Lifecycle orchestrates against the Software Development Lifecycle
8. Proper software estimation techniques and the five different types of software estimates
9. Software development phases and industry averages for time spent at each phase
10. Software project documentation, audiences, and purposes
11. What should be in your enterprise asset library
12. The cone of uncertainty
13. End of project metrics
14. Burn charts, Gantt charts, Earned value charts
15. Best practices for off-shoring
16. Best practices for hardening your security surfaces
17. Demand management (Software Portfolio Management)
18. Theories of human motivation (X,Y, 12 questions)
19. How to accelerate a delayed project
20. Measurable effects from shortening cost or effort on a project
21. Measuring your development groups performance index

Red Rock Research offers software development best practices seminars that provide all of this information.

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