The PTC User event Web site has a new item, Justifying Your Attendance, on how to convince your boss to spring for the costs to attend:
- Use our "Letter to My Boss" as a starting point for a discussion.
- Tie conference attendance to your professional development plan.
- Compare the cost of the conference to an educational course.
- Write a detailed trip report, and publicize it.
- Use at least one productivity-boosting measure from the conference and implement it.
- Use at least one bug fix or workaround that prevents downtime and implement it.
- Connect your business goals to conference content.
- Train other people.
- Compute the cost of a high-priced consultant and show your management how much free hallway or electronic consulting you've received.
- Consider a one-day pass as an alternative.
We'll have to assume that bosses won't be reading this page.
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