🎼 How To Direct a Software Team When You Have No Idea What They’re Talking About

It’s not easy committing your resources to a software project without having some technical background. What if you have no technical background at all?

This session is full of actionable steps anyone can take to greatly increase your confidence with a technical partner, including:

• What expectations you should communicate up-front?
  • Specific examples of tight-loop feedback you should ask for, that any competent team can provide
  • How to make regular measurements part of the delivery cycle
  • What you should measure!
• How do you evaluate a technical proposal?
  • Concrete advice on how to understand a technical plan, before you spend the resources on it.
  • How to ask great questions that will force technical teams to validate their assumptions
• What do you do when technical difficulties arise?
  • How to categorize issues: was this a talent/experience issue? Was it purely exogenous?

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