Conference - Pragmatic Configuration Management for IT Services -
Reducing Cost and Risk - 15 June 2009
BCS HQ, London
This Conference, jointly run by the British Computer Society
Configuration Management Specialist Group (BCS CMSG) and
the itSMF will be held on the 15 June 2009 at the BCS HQ in
central London.
Last year's conference was very successful, and a review is available in
IT Director.
The premier UK event on Change, Release and Configuration Management
for ITIL and Service Management.
The main Conference objectives are to share experiences in how to best
utilise essential resources in challenging economic times:
- getting more from what you’ve got!
- cost and risk of not controlling environments (virtualised,
end-to-end, testing, etc.)
- how the benefits of being in control can be measured and
communicated to the organisation.
The Conference will bring together managers and practitioners working
across the service lifecycle (which incorporates the application lifecycle)
together in an open forum.
We are looking for presentations by practitioners to cover a wide variety
of topics and encourage the cross fertilisation of ideas between
practitioners, vendors and users of the CMDB/CMS solutions and tools.
Benefits
The Conference and workshops will provide a unique opportunity to learn
from practical experience and how to better communicate the benefits and
value of managing your configurations.
Interactive sessions
The interactive sessions last year were very well received and the
Decision Support tools were successful in leading to dynamic interaction,
rich brainstorming and better discussion between users, practitioners and
the vendor community.
Conference themes
- Balancing quality, cost, value and risk across the Service Portfolio
- Measuring and demonstrating the value of managed change
- Streamlining your processes while staying in control
- Agile value delivery
- Is Technology driving CM rather than processes?
- Looking after your basics
- Do more with less
- End-to-end Service - managing them across the supply chain
- Managing Services not under your direct control
- Managing Virtual Environments
- Managing Cloud Computing
- Managing Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Fully exploiting your test environments
- Sweating your assets
- Selling/communicating the benefits of CM
- Modelling the whole
Venue
BCS HQ at 5 Southampton St, in central London (just off the Strand).
Conference Programme
The Conference programme will consist of plenary, parallel and
interactive workshop sessions, panel discussions, vendor exhibition, and
networking opportunities.
Submissions should be relevant to the Conference themes. Particularly
interest will be shown to potential speakers sharing their own experiences.
Submitting papers for the Conference – by 16 March 2009
If you are interested please submit a proposal for a
paper/presentation and include sufficient detail to make the audience,
meaning and value of the session clear. Please complete a speaker form and
one of the proposal forms.
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 presentation.
Notifications of acceptance will be
sent by end of March, 2009. Authors retain the copyright to all submitted work
and, by submitting, grant permission for inclusion in the conference
proceedings.
Materials should be submitted
electronically to
conference@bcs-cmsg.org.uk
Deadlines and Key dates
16
March, 2009 Final
submission deadline. Interactive session and workshop proposals due.
2
April, 2009 Notification
of acceptance.
27 April, 2009 Submission
date for accepted papers and presentations
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