Are you doing anything next Tuesday, May 20th?

I’ll be speaking at meshU in Toronto, “A one-day event of 12 focused workshops in three streams (design, development, management) given by those who have earned their stripes in the startup game; people who can talk knowledgeably about everything from interface design to using Amazon’s S3 distributed server network.”

I’ll be talking about building and managing great teams. Actually, I’ll be facilitating an interactive discussion about building and managing great teams. I hope to use my experience working with Mobile Commons, Conversagent, KL Group, and others to guide a group investigation into what really works for hiring great people and managing for great results. (Note my obvious bias in suggesting the two are related).

My specialty is evidence-based project management, so when facilitating this discussion I’ll be trying to ferret out what actually works for people rather than what we emotionally feel ought to work, or what books say works for the construction trades, or what consulting companies claim are best practices. It should be a great session for people who want to supercharge their development teams.

Alas, things are really hot at Mobile Commons, so I can’t take advantage of the conference to attend some of the other great sessions. It’s back to work ASAP! But for those of you who can attend the full day, I envy your opportunity to hear people like Avi Bryant and John Resig speak…  ¶ 2:00 PM