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Susan Potter and JP Chance address the issue of being few women in software development teams, explaining why it matters, and what can be done to improve the situation.

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Susan Potter has been designing, building and supporting large, enterprise scale distributed software services, primarily in the financial markets industry, for over 12 years. JP Chance is a co-owner and developer at BuzzApp Software. Recent projects include iCreditCard, a mobile application for processing secure credit card transactions on an iPhone.

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Code PaLOUsa is a conference designed to cover all aspects of software development regardless of technology stack. It has sessions revolving around Microsoft, Java, and other development platforms; along with session on higher levels that are platform agnostic. The conference schedule will feature presentations from well-known professionals in the software development community.

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  • Better Teams - Better Results

    by Paul Korney,

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    See this recent research from MIT: cci.mit.edu/news/pressmentions%20hbr%20.html

    It has been my experience that, on average for software projects, having several woman on a team improves both progress and outcome.

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