Pat Scherer
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Pat Scherer brings over 25 years of experience leading corporate technology and business initiatives to her current role as Product Manager at Planview. Pat earned an MBA in Indusrial Management from the University of North Texas and Post-graduate Certificates in Computer Science from IBM and the University of Texas at Austin. She is a Certified Agile ScrumMaster (CSM) and mentor in the areas of Agile/Lean Product and Program Management.

Lessons Learned: Assessing the Skills of 450 Research and Development Professionals

The superheated economy of the late 1990s was punctuated by a scramble for resources and market-share. Stalwart companies like IBM were waking up to the reality that they could not skate on their size and reputations — they too had to become masters of change and improve research and development skills. IBM’s mantra, “A new...