I'm pleased to announce that we've added a new speaker to our already-stellar speaker lineup for this year's Software Executive Summit. Mike Morrissey, VP of Infrastructure at RIM (the BlackBerry company), will be giving a talk about Managing in a Hyper-Growth Environment (more details). Here's the talk description:
When your business is in a hyper-growth phase just keeping pace with change can be a full-time job. Research In Motion has seen the number of BlackBerry subscribers double every year, with 16 million subscribers at the end of first quarter FY09. To support this tremendous growth RIM’s Infrastructure Software Team has more than tripled over the last three years, presenting significant challenges related to team growth, cultural evolution, scalability, availability, feature growth, distribution and process maturity. In his presentation, Mike Morrissey will discuss these challenges and offer insight into staying ahead of the growth curve in a hyper-growth environment.
Mike joins our other speakers:
- Martin Fowler, "Cultivating Great Architects and Designers"
- Ken Schwaber, "Scaling Scrum"
- Travis McElfresh, VP Technology, MSNBC.com, "Driving Employee Satisfaction, Morale, and Productivity at MSNBC.com"
- Matt Peloquin, CTO, Construx Software, "Technical Lessons from the Software Wild"
- Steve McConnell, "Secrets of World Class Software Organizations"
For more details on this year's Software Executive Summit, please visit www.construx.com/summit/.
About Steve McConnell
Steve McConnell is CEO and Chief Software Engineer at Construx Software where he writes books and articles, teaches classes, and oversees Construx’s software development practices. Steve is the author of Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art (2006), Code Complete (1993, 2004), Rapid Development (1996), Software Project Survival Guide (1998), and Professional Software Development (2004). His first two books won Software Development magazine's Jolt Excellence award for best programming books of their years.
Steve has worked in the desktop software industry since 1984 and has expertise in rapid development methodologies, project estimation, software construction practices, and third-party contract management. In 1998, readers of Software Development magazine named Steve one of the three most influential people in the software industry along with Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds. Steve was Editor in Chief of IEEE Software magazine from 1998-2002.
Steve is on the Panel of Experts that advises the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) project and was Chair of the IEEE Computer Society’s Professional Practices Committee. Steve earned a Bachelor’s degree from Whitman College and a Master’s degree in software engineering from Seattle University. Read more about Steve at www.stevemcconnell.com.