She/her

Carol Dekkers

PEng,

President

Quality Plus Technologies, Inc.

Country or state

City

St Petersburg FL

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Languages

Volunteer

Yes

Personal Details

Current position (2)

President

Quality Plus Technologies, Inc.

Consultant

Heart of Agile

Achievements (2)

21 New Faces of Quality for 21st Century

ASQ Quality Progress

Professional Engineer

Degrees (1)

Engineering

University of Calgary

1981

Bio

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Technology and Leadership

Spoken at over 100 international project management, quality and IT conferences in 30+ countries. Keynoted at SAP (Germany), SofTec (Malaysia), Quality Assurance Institute and many others. Skilled and engaging speaker on technology, communication and leadership, project management and Heart of Agile.

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Presentations

Presentations (6)

SofTec Malaysia

Keynoted both 2017 and 2019 Software Testing Conferences in Kuala Lumpur (Convention Center).

Future of Software Cost Estimating

Keynoted ICEAA (international cost estimating) conference in Ottawa Canada Sept 2019.

Leadership Lessons for Heart Centered Agilists

Presented as a webinar (2020) and also as an in-person keynote at the Heart of Agile conference in Pittsburg, Apr 2018,

Create Confirm Convince - Effectively Presenting Tech Data to Executives

Described how technical professionals can best communicate technical messages in non-technical fashion to senior executives (May 2019.)

No More Death by PowerPoint(R)

Presentation skills for technical professionals (in clear language.)

Hundreds of other presentations worldwide

Technical and non-technical presentations at various conferences, meet-ups, online webinars.

Past talks (1)

Multiple: Why

International Cost Estimating and Analysis Assoc Annual professional dev workshops

Minneapolis (2024), San Antonio (2023), Pittsburgh (2022)....

May 15, 2024

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Future of Software Estimating (World Trends)

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Books & Articles (4)

The IT Measurement Compendium

Springer,

2008

If I was Queen of Measurement

Heart of Agile holds Promise as a SIlver Bullet (for Management)

Bias: It's LIke Kryptonite to Collaboration

Expertise (10)

Software Development Advancing Technology software estimation Project Management Effective Presentations Heart of agile Leadership

Clients

SAP

KPMG

National Geospatial Agency

Bank of America

Awards & certifications (2)

Certified FP Specialist (Fellow)

International Function Point Users Group

1997

Project Management Professional

Project Management Institute