Managing software development teams can be a complicated task. Managing virtual teams in which members all have different work hours, varying commitments to the project, and who have not melded as a team only makes matters worse. This presentation will discuss the hurdles associated with managing such teams. It will also cover additional complications introduced when some or all team members are subcontractors with other full- or part-time commitments.

Time permits, the talk will move into additional issues when working with such teams in an equally difficult environment - that of building software for a client who has never executed a technology project.

About our Speakers: 

Brian Lanham, MCP, MCTS
After serving as a nuclear-qualified electrician for six years in the United States Navy, Brian earned a Computer Science degree from Penn State University. While attending university, Brian developed C applications for UNIX and DOS. He then moved on to Microsoft Windows and Web applications. After a brief stint dabbling in Java, he uses .NET as his development platform of choice. Brian is currently the President and CTO of Lotic Factor, Inc., a software development consultancy in Roanoke, VA

Chris Atienza
Chris has been in involved in IT for over 15 years with about 10 of those years in some form of a management role. He has experience in all stages of the software development life cycle as programmer, documenter, tester, systems architect, manager and project manager and has worked with teams of all types and sizes.

In his career, Chris has worked in the non-profit, municipal government, education, health-care and for-profit spheres, constantly focusing on how IT can better serve the respective business mission and goals.

In his free time, Chris teaches programming seminars and courses at the community college level and enjoys mentoring developers and speaking at conferences and code camps.