Bermon Painter

Somewhere, a project is failing. It may be your project and you aren’t even aware yet. More than likely the project isn’t failing because it’s difficult, or the budget ran out, or because there wasn’t a market fit. The project is failing because of people. People are anything but stable and introduce communication problems, staffing problems, politics, disenchantment with the client or stakeholders, and often result in lack of motivation on projects. It doesn’t matter what methodology you use to scope, design, and implement a project if you’re unable to deal with the underlying people issues because people are hard and people are what cause project failures. 5 things: 1. The irrational, impulsive, and emotionally driven challenges people introduce on projects 2. Overcoming different communication styles 3. Guidelines to effectively handle conversations 4. Communication techniques to help overcome people problems 5. Understand how to overcome biases and reduce project failures

Overview: Ever feel like the design process is a drag? You’ve gotta do some research, define some wireframes, maybe do some high fidelity mockups? Sometimes talking gets in the way of the actual doing and sometimes there’s more value into just do. Recognize the benefits of rapid prototyping to increase communication and collaboration on your project teams. There are a number of great rapid prototyping tools out there today. In this session, we’ll focus on Vue.js as a rapid prototyping tool to quickly implement functional design concepts and streamline the designer + developer relationship. Five Things Audience Members Will Learn: 1. Challenges with most design to development processes 2. Benefits of rapid prototyping 3. Creating a consistent language between designers and developers 4. Leveraging frameworks like Vue.js to build a rapid prototyping framework 5. Bending the web to your will to create highly functional prototypes

Finding highly-qualified professionals and then managing them successfully is one of the most difficult tasks leaders face. Just a small number of poor performers can bring down a team and impact delivering a great product. On top of poor hiring practices, when leaders fail to inspire, enable and provide an environment where their team can collaborate and thrive, they will consistently produce mediocre results. In this sessions you’ll discover: * how to successfully research potential candidates; * writing effective job descriptions; * recruiting, interviewing, and hiring techniques; * keeping recruits interested, growing, and contributing back to the team; * leadership techniques to help you be more effective