BRITISH COMPUTER SOCIETY CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST GROUP

Conference Timetable

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Monday 14 May 2007

19.30 -

Drinks and Canapes for Early Birds

Tuesday 15 May 2007

	Track 1 (ITIL)	Track 2 (ALM)	Track 3 (Practical)
8.45 - 9.45	Registration
9.45 - 10.00	Opening Robert Cowham, CMSG Chair
10.00 - 10.45	The ITIL Refresh and Change Configuration and Release Management Sharon Taylor Chief Architect ITIL Refresh and Chief Examiner for ITIL V3
10.45 - 11.15	Coffee/Tea Break
11.15 - 12.00	Configuration Management - Product Acquisition through Transitional and onto a Performance Based Through Life Support Glenn Ellis Thales Australia	Global Develop & Deploy: The politics, patterns and process of implementing distributed software configuration management Kevin Lee IBM Software Group	Getting Started with ITIL: Survival Guide to Improved IT Processes Chris White, Director International Sales Engineering Aldon
12.00 - 12.45	ITIL V3 Service Transition - Managing Configurations. Shirley Lacy, Author of the Service Transition book ConnectSphere	Using SCM to Align the Software Development Process with Business Needs Tony Smith, European Technical Services Manager Perforce Software	Using a CM Tool for Asset/Inventory Management Peter McLoughlin Configuration Patterns Ltd
12.45 - 2.15	Lunch & Demos
2.15 - 3.00	Transferable skills and career opportunities Phil Illingworth, Director Electus Recruitment	Herding Baselines into Service – A Configuration Management Improvement Journey Robert Cowham Vaccaperna Systems	Release Management Workshop John Metcalfe Mentor IT
3.00 - 3.30	Coffee/Tea Break
3.30 - 5.00	Professional Development ISEB Professional Development - Change, Configuration and Release Management Carol Hulm, BCS Special Projects Manager BCS Association of the iNTernational Certified Configuration Manager Rene Schaap iNTCCM Panel Session on Career Development		Workshop Sessions Show me the Money - Justifying the financial value of configuration management and Increasing the Value and Use of the ITIL CMDB David Cuthbertson Square Mile Systems
5.00 - 5.30	CMSG AGM
5.30 - 7.00	Drinks in Exhbition Area
7.45 -	Dinner

Wednesday 16 May 2007

	Track 1 (ITIL)	Track 2 (ALM)	Track 3 (Practical)
9.30 - 10.15	Interactive Workshop - Release Management: The Political Process Don Page Marval Software	Do It Right the First Time All the Time - Building and Deploying Software Releases using Process-centric SCM tools Sarathi Srinivasan Spectrum Software Inc.	CMDB: Fast-Track to the Benefits in a Lo-Tech Situation John Carey Bennett Strategic IM systems Ltd.
10.15 - 11.00	Configuration Management of Services Cathy Wright, Head of Configuration and Asset Management BT	Application Change from Cradle to Production Keith Allen CA	Variant Management Dr. Danilo Beuche and Mark Dalgarno pure-systems GmbH and Software Acumen
11.00 - 11.30	Coffee/Tea Break
11.30 - 12.15	Points of View: "Where are CM systems and tools going and where should they be going?" Marc Girod and Keith Allen IONA Technologies and CA
12.15 - 1.45	Lunch & Demos
1.45 - 2.30	CMDB – what’s next for Service Management Ken Turbitt, Global Best Practices Director BMC Software	The Convergence of ITSM and ALM Ryan Lloyd MKS Inc.	Freeride development: Continuous versus Controlled Integration Pablo Luaces Codice Software
2.30 - 3.00	Coffee/Tea Break
3.00 - 3.45	Open Debate "Where are CM systems and tools going and where should they be going?" Chair - Michael Kennedy London South Bank University
3.45 - 4.00	Closing session
4.30	End of Conference

NB. Sessions and speakers may change.

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