If you are involved in systems or software development, chances are good that during your career you will need to give a status presentation to management. This experience should be one that equips the manager to take the right actions – those actions that keep the development effort on track. Alas, reality is a different thing – many software developers find this experience intimidating and downright frustrating. Paradoxically, many managers share this sentiment and have stopped attending status meetings altogether.

This session focuses on how to transform your status presentations into arming your most important ally, your boss, with the right actions using only 15-20 minutes of your bosses time.

About the Speaker

John H. Robb was the Senior Manager of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Air Vehicle Software team at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Fort Worth until early this year. His team was responsible for the definition, coordination, and support of processes and tools used by over 50 different software development teams across the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program. His team is also responsible for leading the Software Quantitative Management activities for the program. The total size of air vehicle software for the F-35 will grow to approximately 19 million Source Lines of Code (SLOC) by 2011.

Mr. Robb has a BS in Electrical Engineering, a BS in Computer Science, both from the University of Texas at Austin, an MS in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Arlington and is working toward a Doctor of Engineering in Software Engineering at the Southern Methodist University. He has been a regular lecturer in Software Engineering classes at the University of Texas at Austin and at the University of Texas at Arlington, made presentations at SSTC, and is a Certified Project Management Professional (PMI, Inc), a Certified Software Project Manager (QAI), a Certified Software Test Engineer (QAI) and a Certified Software Quality Engineer (ASQ).