Home page for Mary Lynn Manns

Dr. Mary Lynn Manns Department of Management and Accountancy University of North Carolina at Asheville Asheville, North Carolina 28804 USA Office: 828-251-6858 E-mail address: manns@unca.edu

Masters in Business Administration (MBA), Western Carolina University
Masters in Information Systems (MIS), University of Colorado at Boulder
PhD, De Montfort University in Leicester England
PhD thesis: An Investigation into factors affecting the adoption and diffusion of software patterns in industry

Author of the book: Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas
Best Book of the Year for 2004 in the Journal of Object Technology

I am a member of the Department of Management and Accountancy at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. I teach courses in management information systems and management science.

Prior to joining the Department of Management and Accountancy, I was in the Computer Science Dept. at UNCA for 18 years. I have taught courses in various programming languages, research methods, analysis and design methodologies, microcomputer applications, management issues, and object-oriented technology.

My courses for the Fall 2008 semester:

MGMT 386: Systems & Information Management (2 sections)
MGMT 380: Management Science

My areas of research are:

Introducing New Ideas into Organizations
- Website for: Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas
- General presentation on the patterns
- Presentation for Leadership Asheville (Feb. 2004)
- Keynote Presentation at XP2004 conference (June 2004)
- Presentation to the National Environmental Modeling & Analysis Center (Dec. 2004)
- Presentation at United Services Credit Union (Jan. 2005)
- Presentation to MGMT 313 students (Feb. 2005)
- Presentation for Leadership Asheville (Feb. 2005)
- Presentation for Leadership Asheville (January 2006)
- Presentation for Agile Carolinas (November 2006)
- Presentation for Leadership Asheville (February 2007)
- Southern Polytechnic
  - Leading Fearless Change workshop (April 12, 2007)
  - Successful Strategies for Leading Change Colloquium (April 12, 2007)
  - Leading Fearless Change workshop (April 13, 2007)
- MGMT 316: Team Dynamics (October 2007)
- amazon.com (Seattle, January 2008)
- Leadership Asheville presentation (February 2008)
- Presentations in Calgary CANADA (March 2008):
  - University of Calgary
  - CAMUG
- Agile Carolinas (June 2008)
patterns and "pattern mining"
project retrospectives
- Project Retrospectives Tutorial at OOPSLA'03
- Retrospectives Tutorial at XP2004
- Project Retrospectives Presentation slides
- Summary of (some) Retrospective Exercises
- information on project retrospectives by Norm Kerth
- Patterns in Retrospectives: OOPSLA'03 conference workshop
- Presentation for SIMVaC project, April 2005
- A Retrospective of the SIMVaC Retrospective (NEMAC "Chocolate Friday" presentation, November 2005)
  - SIMVaC Retrospective Report (September 2005)
  - SIMVaC Retrospective Report (June 2006)
- Undergraduate Research Project by Heather Nelson

General Presentations

PowerPoint presentation for Mgmt 220 (March 2005)
Research Design (first half of chapter 5 for Applied Research class)

NEMAC materials:

More about me:

Conference Chair for the Agile 2007 conference. Check it out here.
One of the participants in the Pedagogical Patterns Project which is working towards providing reusable "patterns" for use in classrooms of object technology trainers and educators.

General information on patterns:

Some of my favorite patterns web sites:

Writing patterns:

Studying patterns:

There is no failure except in no longer trying

Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming -- "WOW--What a Ride!"

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Last modified: 15 March 2004