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Speakers
We like public speaking and are happy to provide speakers for
groups interested in agile software development practices. Check out our
Events section to view our
upcoming engagements.
We enjoy speaking on the following topics:
- Three Keys to Software Success and other Tales of High-Tech
Anthropology®
- Innovations in a Flat World - Maintaining Global Competitive
Advantage
with Software and Improved Business Process in the new Flat World
- Software Development in the Flat World- A New Definition for
Software
Success
- Top Six Reasons Software Projects Fail and How to Avoid Them
- Revolutions in Marketing - Enjoying the Monsoon of Marketing
Information
Available to All of Us - High Tech and High-Touch
- Keys to Agile Project Management - Plans Are Useless, But
Planning is
Indispensable
- Software Project Estimating - Not an Event, but a Process!
- Software Team Building - Using Extreme Programming to Build
High-Performing Teams
- An Evening at the Menlo Software Factory - A Guided Tour of an
Agile
Software Development Practice
- Edison and The Menlo Software Factory - Why we must look back
130 years
for clues to building software in the 21st Century
- Project Portfolio Management - The Human Side
- The Agile Career - Building a Lifetime of Learning
- The Learning Organization - A Peek Inside the Menlo Software
Factory
- The Office of the Future - No Offices, Walls, Cubes or Doors
- Innovating Inside a Box - A Working our of an Innovation Factory
- The Art of Brainstorming - A Practical Introduction
- Wireless Possibilities - The Case for the Widespread Adoption of
the
Ubersteroid of Technologies
- The Accidental Entrepreneurs - The Story of Menlo Innovations
- Revolutions in Software Architecture - An Introduction to Unit
Testing and
Test-Driven Design
- Effective Software Project Management Utilizing Project Planning
OrigamiTM and Extreme Programming
- Restoring Executive Sponsorship for I.T. - What Every Executive
Must Know
- Extreme Programming at the Menlo Software Factory - A Guided
Tour
- Paired Programming in the Menlo Software Factory - A Powerful
Managerial
Tool
- Freedom through Tyranny - Unleashing the Power of Your Software
Development Team
Previous speaking engagements:
- PNSQC 2009
- OOPSLA 2009, "Robots Wild on Software"
- PMI-North America 2009, "Eggs, Beef, and Agile: What Does 'Grade' Have to Do with Project Quality?"
- PMI-North America 2009, "War Rooms and Open Spaces: Thinking Outside the Cubicle"
- PMI-North America 2009, "Agile, Innovation, and the Project Manager"
- PMI-North America 2009, "Why Agile Focuses on the Work Breakdown Structure and Frequent Communication"
- Internet User Experience 2009, "Three Keys to Business Success with Technology"
- Internet User Experience 2009, "Iterate, Scale and Simplify: UX methods for Agile teams"
- Internet User Experience 2009, "Diagnosing and Addressing Online UX Challenges"
- Internet User Experience 2009, "The Evolution & Future of Social Networking"
- Agile 2008, "Don't Sell Buzzwords to Business Leaders, Learn How to Describe and Demonstrate Real Value"
- Agile 2008, "Agile Teams Requires Agile QA: How We Made It Work"
- Agile 2008, "Overcoming Brooks Law"
- Agile 2008, "Extreme Interviewing: Finding the Right People for Your Agile Teams"
- Great Lakes SPIN
- PMI - Huron Valley Chapter, "Using Agile Project Management to Increase Project Success Rates"
- PMI - Dayton/Miami Valley Chapter, "Agile, Innovation and the Project Manager"
- PMI - Dayton, OH, "Agile Project Management"
- PMI - Latin America Global Congress "Rotating Leadership: 1 Project, 24 months, and 7 project managers"
- Southest Michigan Software Quality Assurance Association, "Agile Overview"
- Oakland University's Women in Computing Day
- Women Making Connections
- Lawrence Technical University, "Agile Project Management"
- PMI - Great Lakes Chapter, "Dispelling the Myth of the Perfect Project Plan" & "Perfect Execution Can Still Fail, How One Team Uses Anthropology And Progressive Elaboration To Ensure Success"
- Menlo Software Factory Tour, "An Evening at Menlo"
- Money Finders, "The Accidental Entrepreneur"
- Menlo Software Factory Tour, "An Afternoon at Menlo"
- Great Lakes SPIN
- International Institute of Business Analysts, "High-Tech AnthropologyTM"
- Entertainment Publications, "How to Be Agile"
- U of M School of Information, "A Tour of the Menlo Software Factory"
- U of M School of Information, Professional Portfolio Review
- Association of Women in Computing (AWC), "An Evening at the Menlo Software Factory - A Guided Tour of an Agile Software Development Practice"
- Society of Women Engineers (SWE), "An Evening at the Menlo Software Factory - A Guided Tour of an Agile Software Development Practice"
- PMI Dayton/Miami Valley Chapter, "Agile and the Project Manager"
- Work-Life Conference and Exhibition 2007, "Flex Options Success and Challenges"
- Troy Chamber of Commerce - Business Expo - Keynote
- Great Lakes Software Excellence Conference
- Detroit Chamber of Commerce - Alfred P. Sloan Awards panel member
- Society for Marketing Professional Services
- Lawrence Technical University
- Leading Innovation - University of Michigan Business School
- MichBio - Panel Leader
- e2 Detroit - Panel Leader
- Innovation Michigan 2006 - Keynote
- Automation Alley
- Washtenaw County
- PMI Western Lake Erie
- Cadence Management
- Impact 2000 Panel Leader
- Association of Organ Procurement Organizations
- Ann Arbor Learning Community Graduation Ceremony - Keynote with James Goebel
- International Methdology Update
- Michigan Technology Leaders 2006 - Keynote
- Alfred P. Sloan award for Workplace Flexibility
- Society of Industrial and Office Realtors
- Association of Women in Computing (AWC)
- Michigan Survives
- GLEQ Entrepreneur's Roundtable
- Edison Papers
- PMI Global Congress 2005 - Latin America
- PMI Central Ohio Professional Development Day
- The Society for Technical Communication - Southeastern Michigan Chapter
- PMI Great Lakes Chapter
- XP West Michigan
- Institute for International Research
- PMI eBusiness SIG
- State of Michigan College Recruiter's Forum
- Lawrence Tech University
- Ann Arbor Chamber NetWorks!
- Washtenaw Wireless Executive Stakeholders
- The IndUS Entrepreneurs - Detroit Chapter
- New Enterprise Forum
- Michigan Extreme Programming Enthusiasts Group
- Society of Manufacturing Engineers
- Lansing Chapter of the Project Management Institute
- Great Lakes Chapter of the Project Management Institute
- University of Michigan Buisness School
- University of Michigan School of Information
- University of Michigan College of Engineering
- Greater Toledo Chapter of the Project Management Institute
- IAESTE
- Ann Arbor Chamber of Commerce
- Bowling Green State University
- Ypsilanti Chamber of Commerce
- Investors Exchange
- Detroit Oracle User's Group
- Ann Arbor Oracle User's Group
- PMI Global Congress 2003
- PMI Global Congress 2005 North America
- PMI Huron Valley Chapter
- Schoolcraft College
- Ann Arbor Chapter of the
Project Management Institute
- Michigan Technology News Radio
- Ann Arbor Computer
Society
- Ann Arbor Design Patterns User's Group
- Ann Arbor
SPARK
- Eastern Michigan University
- XP/Agile Universe
- MacHack
- Michigan's 4th Annual Conference on Quality
- Michigan Extreme Programmers User Group
- Ann Arbor Java Programmers User Group
- Society for Information Management, CIO Forum
- Automation Alley Tech Track
- Internet User Experience 2006
- PMI Central Ohio Chapter
- MXPE
Please call Rich Sheridan at (734) 665-1847 to schedule a speaker
for your next event.
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Free Taste of Success

We invite
you to attend the next
"Taste of
Success"
"I’ll talk about the social, economic, technological, and managerial
reasons behind these difficulties and why the typical responses to
these failures fail. You'll learn what constitutes
real success and discover an alternative way of developing and
deploying software that significantly increases its total business
value."
- Rich Sheridan
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