I offer consulting, coaching, and facilitating services to software leaders in all roles. Here are some areas where I can help.

Leading

• Clarifying personal and organizational values
• Making personal and organizational choices
• Building power and using it wisely
• Observing what is happening
• Empowering, encouraging, and motivating others
• Building trust, respect, courage, and responsibility
• Speaking so that others can hear, and listening so that others contribute fully
• Guiding change
• Resolving and avoiding resistance
• Building the leaders around you

Working as a Team

• Creating and maintaining a high-performance team
• Making and managing agreements and commitments, both within the team and with people outside the team
• Coping with change, disappointment, and stress
• Resolving conflict
• Making meetings valuable
• Giving and receiving feedback
• Promoting the flow of information
• Coordinating work among individuals and groups
• Solving problems and making decisions

Starting a Project

• Chartering the project
• Defining requirements for features, quality, cost and schedule
• Planning, estimating, and scheduling
• Making and managing commitments
• Managing risks

Executing a Project

• Assessing requirements, designs, code, plans, and other work products
• Observing and communicating project status and progress
• Making mid-course corrections

Ending a Project

• Conducting retrospectives to learn from the team’s experience
• Celebrating success and learning

Improving your Software Development Process

• Setting process goals
• Measuring process performance
• Assessing, changing, and documenting processes
• Guiding change
• Resolving and avoiding resistance
• Improving practices for unit testing, integration testing, and system testing