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Part 1: TAMING THE SOFT MACHINE. 1: Seven Deadly Habits of Ineffective Software Managers. 2: Organizational Spring Cleaning. 3: Relating PMBOK Best Practices to Software Development. Part 2: PLANNING. 4: Run Development as a Business. 5: Partner with Product Management. 6: Become Effective and Competitive. Part 3: PROCESS. 7: Master the Art of Scheduling. 8: Deliver On-Time, Quality Products. Part 4: PEOPLE. 9: Finding, Retaining, and Motivating the Best Talent. 10: Create a Winning Workplace.

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Ken Whitaker, PMP has over 20 years of executive line management experience with leading technology companies in a wide variety of industries including healthcare, insurance estimating, marketing merchandising, real-time control, embedded, wireless, mobile GIS, and presentation graphics (remember Harvard Graphics?). Ken has held executive management positions at Data General (now EMC), Software Publishing Corporation, AC Nielsen, USDATA (now UGS), and Solucient (now Thomson Medical). Ken is currently Director of Engineering at Seattle-based Datalight, a leading provider of reliable embedded systems software solutions. Ken graduated from James Madison University (JMU) with an emphasis in Mathematics and Fine Arts and attended Virginia Tech's (VPI&SU) Computer Science and Applications graduate school. He is also Project Management Professional (PMP) certified and an active member of the Project Management Institute (PMI) and a member of the Seattle, WA PMI chapter. Ken is also a member of the Puget Sound Chapter of the American Society for Training & Development (ASTD).

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