PROGRAMME
09.00 - 09.45 Registration and Coffee
09.45 - 09.55 Introduction, Shirley Lacy, Chair
09.55 – 10.35 JDI - The Ultra-high Speed Change
Process?
Mark Bools, Consultant
Presentation
and White paper
Mark will introduce the JDI Change Process, discuss why it is commonly
applied and what its pitfalls are. Through a series of design refinements he
will show how to improve the change process to meet the needs of
organisations large and small.
Mark has over 18 years experience in IT, 15 of these in Configuration
Management
10.35 – 11.05 Tea, Coffee and Networking
11.05 – 11.50
Not everything at the world's leading
leisure car rental company is done last minute!
Gary Clink,
Consultant, Progress Software
Gary will present details of a
software configuration management (SCM) project carried out within Holiday
Autos, a part of the Lastminute.com company. Internet start-up companies are
often seen as being creative, dynamics and innovative. Gary will present how
SCM has been used successfully within Holiday Autos to help manage their
life cycle and improve the throughput of releases. He will also show how the
application of SCM has added to, not taken from, the creative spirit within
this, the world's leading leisure car rental company.
Gary specialises in the
implementation and training in Software Configuration Management as part of
the Progress development suite.
11.50 – 12.30
Designing for easy release
Robert Cowham, Consultant, Vaccaperna
Robert will cover design principles that enable faster releases
of software systems. These include the design of development processes, the
configuration management system and the actual software that you are
delivering. Robert will illustrate his talk with case studies, common traps
and pitfalls and the application of CM patterns.
Robert has 20 years of experience in the software
development field, and now focuses on providing consultancy and training in
configuration management and improving development processes.
12.30 – 13.20 Lunch & Networking
13.20 – 13.45 Demonstration by Cybermation
13.45 – 14.45 Workshop – Release Planning
for Success
Many members have requested an opportunity to share experiences
directly in workshop sessions. Bring along your ideas!
14.45 – 15.15 TEA / COFFEE and NETWORKING
15.15 – 16.00 Re-using assets to improve the time to
release
Paul Bowden, Consultant, MKS
In even moderately sized businesses it is unlikely one person or group
has a global view of software assets such as source code, documentation,
plans, designs. This lack of visibility hampers efforts to reuse assets.
Effectively making these assets accessible can significantly shorten project
lifecycles and reduce the risk of delays. This presentation describes a
practical system to catalogue assets in a repository and make them available
for reuse across the enterprise to different user communities in a scalable
manner.
Paul is specialises in SCM implementation and process automation.
16.00 – 16.30
Full Lifecycle Configuration Management
Neil White and Phil Illingworth
Neil and Phil mainly work in the Aerospace and Defence industry.
Neil manages a major UK Configuration Management Capability providing
solutions, consultants and training to a diverse range of organisations.
Phil has 15 years experience which includes CM Delivery Manager for a major
IT Consultancy and CM Manager for a major Canadian Air Traffic System
Upgrade.
16.30 – 16.40 SUMMARY and CLOSE
The Configuration Management Specialist Group provides a forum for
exchanging ideas, developing and promoting Change, Configuration Management
and Release Management best practices and standards including formal
accreditation and professional qualifications
