Call for Papers

BRITISH COMPUTER SOCIETY CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST GROUP
The specialist group for Change, Release and Configuration Management

Call for papers is now closed - see Timetable/Programme

3rd BCS CMSG Conference Oxford, 15 & 16 May 2007

Life Cycle Management across the Supply Chain
The role of Configuration and Change Management

The 3rd Conference of the British Computer Society Configuration Management Specialist Group (BCS CMSG) will be held 15 & 16 May, 2007, at the Oxford Belfry Hotel.

The conference will bring together managers and practitioners working in Change, Configuration and Release management. Presentations by practitioners and world leaders in the field will cover a wide variety of topics. The conference objectives are to encourage the cross fertilisation of Change, Configuration Management and Release Management best practices throughout the life cycle and across the supply chain. We welcome both newcomers and old hands to the BCS CMSG sharing experiences and lessons learnt.

The conference themes are:

• IT Governance – the role of change and configuration management
• Coping with the plethora of standards and best practice frameworks
• Transferable skills and professional development
• Configuration management across two or more life cycle stages / organisations
  • Requirements
  • Architecture and design
  • Building and testing
  • Deployment
  • Operations
  • Whatever you are delivering - Projects, Services, Systems - small to large scale, Products, Applications, Software, Infrastructure
• Life Cycle Management
  • Configuration and change management
  • Metrics across the supply chain
  • Risk management across the supply chain
  • Managing IT assets
  • Configuration traceability and auditing across the supply chain
  • Continual improvement
• Distributed ways of working for configuration and change management
  • Across suppliers
  • Shared data environments
  • Collaboration and sharing
  • Cultural challenges
  • Across disparate configuration management sources and tools
  • Patterns and mapping

Venue

Oxford is a historic and interesting city. The Oxford Belfry Hotel is within easy reach of the city or the M40 motorway.

Conference Programme

The conference programme will consist of plenary, parallel, poster and workshop sessions in Change, Configuration and Release management. In addition, panel discussions, special interest group sessions, vendor displays, exhibits, demonstrations and meetings and other related gatherings will be scheduled. The conference schedule will provide time for relaxed social and professional interaction.

Submissions should be relevant to the conference themes. The CMSG would particularly like to hear from potential speakers sharing their own experiences.

Submitting papers for the Conference – by 29 January 2007

If you are interested please submit a proposal for a paper and include sufficient detail to make the audience, meaning and value of the session clear. r.

• Short Title + Synopsis of no more than 150 words
• Presenter Name
• Organisation/Affiliation
• Conference Objective addressed
• Theme
• Audience (Beginners/ Intermediate/ Experts)
• Short biography + CV
• Previous conference papers

All works submitted will be assigned to three committee members for peer review. The results of this review will determine whether a work will be accepted for plenary, parallel or poster presentation.

Materials should be submitted electronically to secretary@bcs-cmsg.org.uk

DEADLINES and KEY DATES

January 29, 2007 Final submission deadline. Workshop proposals due.
February 5, 2007 Notification of acceptance.