Information Technology Measurement and Governance – International Strategies
Half Day Symposium: Wednesday May 1, 2013
Panel presentations were 8:30 AM to 12:00 PM at the
National Hotel, Algonquin Rooms, 361 Queen Street, Ottawa
International Function Point Users Group – ISO/IEC 20926 – Board of Directors
An International Software Measurement Association (ISMA) event
The symposium covered IFPUG-ISMA community directions, plus the current questions and challenges for IT today and where metrics provides valuable insights, leading to improved decision making.
The IFPUG Board of Directors actively participated and presented in conjunction with regional industry leaders. (IFPUG Board includes: Systems Integrators, Financial, Insurance and Consulting Sectors)
This was a highly interactive symposium, fostering discussions that will drive Information Technology maturity on an international scale.
Presentations included:
- Timothy Grayson, director of product development at epost Canada Post, who also helped moderate, speaking on the key missing concept of “Spaces in Between” for software metrics.
- Stuart MacKay, CTO Government Services HP Canada. providing insights regarding the complex estimation and integration challenges being faced today.
- John Cousens, Public Sector Canada Salesforce.com, presenting new agile SaaS models and where function points have quantified realized cost savings
- Charles Bokor, Strategic Management Consultant, and University software performance measurement evangelist discussing “black hole, super sized projects”.
Presentations from IFPUG Leaders included:
- Joe Schofield, Certified CMMi instructor, after a 31 year career at Sandia Laboratories, highlighting the need for “fidelity metrics” to resolve common pain points in the software industry.
- Tom Cagley, of DCG, providing innovative insights with an agile twist!
- Lori Holmes of Q/P Management Group providing a real-life outsourcing case study where ongoing metrics provided the data to make difficult decisions.
- Christine Green of HP highlighting non-functional software sizing considerations in 2013.
- Mauricio Aguiar of ti Métricas providing updates from Brazil, the leading country in Software Metrics!
- Steven Woodward of Cloud Perspectives, highlighting cloud computing metrics considerations.
A replay of the recorded session is scheduled for May 2.
Sponsors include:ti Métricas our featured gold sponsor,
and Q/P Management Group, Salesforce.com and Cloud Perspectives
as silver sponsors, and Leda MC, our bronze sponsor.
Over a dozen speakers and industry experts presented and/ or were part of the panels in Ottawa.
The ISMA conference this year will be in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, and it will also be fast-paced with leaders regionally and internationally maturing software measurement practices!
Ottawa free registration now available: click here.
See the Portuguese Version Here.
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Here’s an event you don’t want to miss! Not if you are interested in software measurement, estimation, contracting, or quantitative software project management. It will happen in downtown Rio de Janeiro in September/October 2013. Two conferences will be held in the same venue, on the same week: ISMA 8, the eighth edition of IFPUG’s International Software Measurement & Analysis Conference, and the new IT Confidence Conference organized by the International Software Benchmarking Standards Group – ISBSG. ISMA 8, IT Confidence, and co-located training and certification events together will result in the longest metrics event ever held (10 days). Planned sessions:
