December SeaSPIN Meeting December 4, 2012

Tuesday, December 4
Free and Open to the Software Engineering & IT Community

Vertafore, 11724 Northeast 195th Street Bothell, WA 98011
Directions & Additional Info at http://seaspin.org

Food & networking from 5:45 to 6:15 (pizza, salad, soda )
Announcements from 6:15 to 6:30
Presentation from 6:30 to 7:45
Q & A from 7:45 to 8:15
Doors close at 8:30
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Engine for Change:
Quick tips to refuel any project & drive it across the finish line
by April K. Mills

Though we want our projects to succeed, we often rely on behaviors that actually drive our projects to fail. In this talk, we will learn how you can immediately improve your project's chances of succeeding and take home tips you can implement on your own in your projects right away.

This presentation will be part lecture and part discussion, so bring your real-life project stories and frustrations and we'll troubleshoot as many projects as possible.

Speaker Bio
Ms. Mills graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 2001 with an Engineering Mechanics degree and a Technical Communications Certificate. Since then she has proudly worked for the U.S. Navy at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility (PSNS & IMF) in Bremerton, Washington. She’s been an engineer, a supervisor, the Command Strategic Planning Manager, the Theory of Constraints Implementation Manager and more. In May 2012 she received the Meritorious Civilian Service Medal. In every role, she has partnered her engineering troubleshooting skills with her energy to drive positive change.

Today, she loves leading the PSNS & IMF Guiding Coalition, based on Dr. John Kotter’s Leading Change 8-step model and using the complexity theories of David Snowden. Ms. Mills carries her passion for creating positive change into her personal life, self-publishing a change management blog: engine-for-change.com. She is a sought after as a freelance speaker and as an engineering leadership and change implementation trainer.

You may contact Ms. Mills at engineforchange@gmail.com, or follow her on twitter (@engineforchange), LinkedIn, or Facebook.