'Seven Unbreakable Rules of Software Leadership' with Steve McConnell

Title: Seven Unbreakable Rules of Software Leadership
Speaker: Steve McConnell
Date: January 7, 2020

Description:
Congratulations. You've earned a job as a software executive. Now what? Do you know what it takes to keep it? More important, do you know what it takes to excel? After more than 10 years of working with top software executives across a full spectrum of software-intensive industries, noted author and software engineer Steve McConnell has found a method for predicting which technical executives will be successful in their organizations and which will end up looking for different positions. In this one-hour webinar, McConnell describes the seven crucial rules that lead software executives first to satisfactory performance and ultimately to superior performance and superior results.

Speaker
Steve McConnell
CEO and Chief Software Engineer, Construx Software

Moderator
Will Tracz
Lockheed Martin Fellow Emeritus (retired); Former chair, ACM SIGSOFT
When he retired, Dr. Tracz was a principal software engineer/application architect for the Global Combat Support System - Air Force (GCSS-AF) program. He is currently the Special Projects Coordinator of the ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (SIGSOFT), a member of the ACM Professional Development Committee, and US, ACM representative of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Technical Committee (TC) 2 - Software Theory and Practice. He has served as the editor of the ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, general chair of the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), and the ACM Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE).

[jsmuser]

Summary:
1. Be sure you are going somewhere
2. Take responsibility
3. Make decisions in the face of ambiguity
4. Put the organization first
5. Be passionate about your company's business
6. Become a student communication
7. Treat your staff as volunteers

[Dmartin]

A supervisor should imagine each of their employees is wearing a nametag that says
make me feel important

McConnel stated that we are paying developers to
think about what we want them to think about

What is a hyper communicator?
Someone who naturally communicates more under stress

You should make your decisions based on what percentage of a knowledge base?
70%


Which of the following can be career limiting?

failing to deliver on your expectations

According to Maxwell, “a leader must win people’s ____ before you win their
hearts; minds

[FaddelHomsi]

Thanks very much, but if the quality of the sound were better, it would have been great, anyways many thanks.