Michael Krasowski
General Manager, Fairway Technologies
California, Maryland, United States
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Michael is General Manager of Fairway Technologies Inc. and brings over 35+ years of Information Technology experience to apply to his position. Prior to the merger between Fairway and PDSA Inc., Michael was Vice President/COO at PDSA, Inc.
Before joining the PDSA team, Michael was the Director of Information Technology at the Long Beach division of Boeing. He was responsible for all aspects of computing – strategic planning, architecture, application lifecycle, asset management, and outsource management – where he managed a budget of over $90 million dollars and 140+ people.
Michael’s responsibilities at PDSA were to manage all projects and personnel while ensuring quality services are delivered on time and on budget to our valued clients. He has been instrumental in defining and executing a solid internal business and engineering process to ensure quality services, including using some agile and scrum techniques.
Michael also has been an instructor at UCLA and University of California, Irvine's extension programs teaching a variety of computer science topics. Michael has been a speaker at industry conferences, such as DevIntersection, Advisor’s Conference, DevConnections, Code Camp and Informant Conferences specializing in best practices of management, project management, leadership, communication, requirements gathering and estimating projects.
Michael holds a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and a master’s degree in Computer Science from UCLA and has published several articles on computer technology. Michael is also a Pluralsight instructor since 2013 having authored several courses on project management, project requirements, project estimating, leadership and communication, team management, and demand/work management.
Area of Expertise
Developing Effective Agile Sprint Plans
o If you are challenged with creating rapid, solid sprint plans and struggling with mid-sprint issues, incomplete work at the end of a sprint, the treatment of bugs and when to apply ‘spikes’ then this session is for you.
o In this course, Developing Effective Agile Sprint Plans, you will learn the skills, approaches, and techniques to advance your essential sprint planning capabilities.
o First, we will quickly review key Agile, Scrum and sprint terms, definitions, roles, artifacts and processes to provide the basis for this session and cover the numerous benefits of having a solid Agile planning process and what the outcomes and expectations of sprint planning should be.
o Next, you will learn the activities regarding the product backlog, user stories, sprint planning, sprint backlog, the sprint itself, daily scrum or stand up, the potentially shippable product and lastly the sprint demo, review and retrospective. Included will be sprint management activities such as sprint status, burndown, and developing velocities.
o Finally, this session will not only cover the “happy path” planning process, but once the sprint is launched and is “in-flight,” we will explore how to handle the myriad of issues that may affect and imped your plan, such as: bugs, staffing, ‘spikes’, and incomplete work and what options you can apply to mitigate them.
o At the end of this session, you will have the skills and knowledge of how to improve, execute and deliver high quality sprint plans; and what options you have if things ‘go wrong.’
Project managers, scrum masters, product owners, scrum team members, team management, business analysts.
Fundamentals of Demand and Work Management
o Every day, the demands and workloads placed upon your shoulders is growing. This course will provide you with the necessary skills and processes to make a practical impact on your demand and work management capabilities with immediate usable results.
o If you are overwhelmed by the amount of work requests you get every week or even every day, and are challenged by juggling not only your workload, but the workload of your entire team or department, it is time to consider another approach. In this session, Demand and Work Management, you will learn the skills, approaches, tools and techniques to advance your essential demand and work management skills.
o When you’re finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge of demand and work management needed to implement proven techniques and processes to capture and manage demand from the executives to the end users and execute and deliver high quality work outcomes.
Practical Team Management
This course will provide you with the necessary skills and processes to immediately make a practical impact on your management capabilities. You will learn 10 key basic team management processes that you can easily employ with your team. Whether you are a software engineer, a technical team leader or manager, this course will help you be more effective at developing and improving your skills, processes and best practices to better manage and lead your team.
Essential Leadership and Communication Skills
Want to immediately make an impact on your leadership and communication capabilities? Whether you are a software engineer or a team leader, this course will help you be more effective at building more constructive professional relationships as well as leading and managing people. IT professionals have a great set of technical skills but may be wanting essential leadership and communication skills that are required to meet the performance expectations of their management, company and possibly, of themselves.
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