Home page for Mary Lynn Manns
Dr. Mary Lynn Manns
Department of Management and Accountancy
University of North Carolina at Asheville
CPO #1850
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
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, change
leadership 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.
I am the project manager for the UNC Asheville Quality Enhancement Plan so I
teaching only two courses in the Fall 2011 semester:
- MGMT 386:
Management Information Systems (2 sections)
My areas of research
are:
- Leading Change
- Strategies
for Leading Through Times of Change
- 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
- MGMT
316: Team Dynamics (October 2007)
- amazon.com
(Seattle, January 2008)
- Leadership
Asheville presentation (February 2008)
- Presentations in Calgary CANADA (March 2008):
- Agile
Carolinas (June 2008)
- Changing the
World: A Course that combines Service Learning with Change
Leadership: AGLS Conference (September 2008)
- Understanding How People
Change: A Diversity Issue: Living In / Living With Diversity
Conference at UNC Asheville (November 2008)
- Leadership
Asheville (December 2008)
- Changing
the World with You as the Leader (Anderson Leadership
Conference, February 2009)
- Diffusion
of Innovation (Community Outreach & Health Promotion, March 2009)
- Society of
Information Management (April 2009)
- The Dannon
Company (April 2009)
- Proctor &
Gamble (April 2009)
- Making
Creative Ideas Happen Institute for Emerging Issues (September
2009)
- Faculty Brown
Bag Presentation, UNC Asheville (October 2009)
- OOPSLA 2009
conference (November 2009)
- Fearless Change:
from presentation to persuasion (Toastmasters District 37 Fall
Conference, November 2009)
- An
Investigation into Factors Affecting the Adoption of Software Development
Patterns (Southern Management Association Conference, November 2009)
- Leading
Fearless Change in Organizations (Leadership Asheville, January 2010)
- Change:
The Two Things You Need (Lessons in Leadership Conference, February
2010)
- Crescent
PPO
(March 2010)
- Maple
Leaf Foods (Toronto, Canada; June 2010)
- Microsoft
(Redmond, Washington; July
2010)
- Agile
Carolinas,
(Charlotte, NC; September 2010)
- Influencing
Others (September 2010)
- Leading a Fearless
Change to Agile... It takes more than just the facts ma'am (Agile
Tour,
October 2010)
- Making Your
Ideas Happen in the Family Business (Family Business Forum, November
2010)
- Leading Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas (Leadership Asheville, February 2011)
- Loss & Change
- Climate Change and Sustainability: Transforming Information
into Action
- Project Retrospectives
General Presentations
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