⇽ Bruce Momjian ⇽

General Presentations


Managing Global Teams

This presentation highlights the challenges of managing a global team of employees. Topics include management basics, leadership styles, the challenges of distant employees, and recommendations. Details include communication, coordination, and monitoring. This talk is useful for anyone who manages distributed teams.
Duration: 45 minutes, 1 hour with questions

Learning To Share: Creating and Delivering Effective Presentations

The ability to present information effectively to large audiences is a hard skill to master. This presentation looks at the motivational, technical, stylistic, and operational skills needed to be effective presenting to audiences, both in-person and virtual. It contains many specific tips on how to be successful.
Duration: 45 minutes, 1 hour with questions

The Ingredients of Accidental Success

Success is following a path to a goal. Most people follow a path set by others, but innovators define their own paths. This talk explores my journey in building the Postgres community and achieving a long-term goal.
Duration: 20 minutes, 25 minutes with questions

Producing Quality Software

Quality is a hard word to define — it is even harder to define a process of how to produce it. This presentation explains the benefits of producing quality software and looks at the forces that encourage and discourage quality output.
Duration: 30 minutes, 45 minutes with questions

Practical Computerized Home Automation

Home automation is an elusive technology — often desired, rarely achieved. This talk explores a successful twenty-year home automation deployment, outlining the challenges that derail many attempts. It will cover technology choices, programing basics, and a dozen successful applications.
Duration: 45 minutes, 1 hour with questions