Speaker Panel: Transition from Individual Contributor to Engineering LEADER

!!! WE'RE PLANNING TO BE IN PERSON/HYBRID AGAIN THIS MONTH !!!

LOCATION: Meet in person at Varian Medical Cafeteria
3100 Hansen Way, Palo Alto, CA 94304, United States
(NOTE: We have snacks and drinks for those coming in person.)

VIRTUAL: Zoom to be sent out to registered attendees the day prior.

TOPIC: We'll ask our panelists to share stories of the transition from individual contributor to first time manager/leader.

PANELISTS:

• Steve McConnell - Preview Steve's insights HERE.
• Ron Lichty
• Bill Lennan

MODERATOR: John van Heteren, Director, Treatment Delivery Applied Research at Varian Medical Systems

AGENDA:
5:30 - 6:00 Networking - Arrive early and hang out with us!
6:00 - 6:10 Intro & Community announcements
6:10 - 7:10 Presentation
7:10 - 7:20 Breakout Groups: Discuss the event, ID your group's question
7:20 - 7:30 Q&A
7:30 - 7:45 Closing
8:00 - Clean up, clear out and go home!

BIOS of OUR PANELISTS:

STEVE McCONNELL is best known as the author of Code Complete, a software industry classic that is one of the best-reviewed, best-selling software development books of all time. Steve has been recognized as one of the world’s leading software development experts for more than two decades and has worked with hundreds of software leaders in organizations ranging from Fortune 500 companies to garage start-ups. 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. In 2019, the Forbes Technology Council named Code Complete “the single best cornerstone book on good software development.” Steve has been quoted in The Economist, The New York Times, The Guardian, and other major publications. Steve’s books have sold more than 1 million copies and have been translated into 20 languages. His most recent book is More Effective Agile: A Roadmap for Software Leaders. https://stevemcconnell.com/

RON LICHTY wrote the book on becoming/being a software development first-level manager, Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams (one of just a dozen books devoted to the topic, [http://www.ManagingTheUnmanageable.net](http://www.managingtheunmanageable.net/) ), which addresses the management, leadership, mentoring and coaching challenges to the role. After a half dozen years of serious systems programming, he was recruited to manage teams at Apple, later growing his career through Director of Development and VP Engineering and CTO roles in startups and Fortune 500 companies alike. As Ron Lichty Consulting, the past 10 years, he takes on fractional Interim VP Engineering roles, trains teams and executives to make their process more effectively agile, coaches leaders in managing software people and teams to make their software development “hum”, and assesses technology organizations to make their product development more effective and their customers more delighted. http://www.ronlichty.com

BILL LENNAN was raised on islands and diversely educated, Bill has always been focused on solving human as well as technical problems. Over the span of his tech career, he has built products, teams, and solutions for mobile, recruiting, ecommerce, social media, and now education. He has helped companies ranging from Google and Walmart to hotels and restaurants. Building high functioning teams has been fundamental to Bill’s success. His team successes are directly attributable to the skills taught in the HAERT™ Curriculum. https://www.linkedin.com/in/wblennan/

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