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Terry Dooley, Senior Vice President
of Information Technology, SHAZAM Network
Danette McGilvray, Enterprise Information Quality
Program Manager, Agilent Technologies
Chris Ogden, Director of Software Development -
UNC School of Public Health
Dr. Richard Soley, Chairman and CEO Object Management
Group, Inc.
Gordon Divitt, Executive Vice President (Operations),
CertaPay, Inc. |
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| Vision of Value: A Closed-Loop
IT Investment Strategy : In this talk, Jim Johnson will layout The
Standish Group's vision of a perpetual dynamic IT investment plan that utilizes
value as the key indicator for success. First, Jim will demonstrate why
you must commit yourself to truly looking at value and not cost. Second,
he will provide a roadmap on how to move from a cost-based model to a value-based
model. Third, Jim will discuss how to preserve and maintain this value-based
model as your IT organization changes. |
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| How We Saved 30%: The Electronic
Funds Transfer industry is changing; mergers and acquisitions are making
competition tough. EFT Networks are rapidly identifying plans to merge data
centers, synchronize EFT systems, and improve services while reducing costs.
Terry Dooley will discuss how SHAZAM is leading this initiative by implementing
the Hewlett Packard Non Stop ZLE architecture to improve the services, while
reducing operating cost. Terry will discuss the value of the ZLE architecture
and the cost savings, which is more than hard dollars. |
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| Return on Requirements:
In today's budget constraint environment, insuring that every investment
creates a maximum return is essential. This fact is never more true than
in the development of new IT products and applications. In this interactive
talk, Jim Johnson, Chairman of The Standish Group will discuss how to improve
project success and investments by controlling features and functions through
assessing requirements based on both risk and return. |
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| Enterprise Data Quality Management:
Many companies are migrating data from disparate systems to integrated applications
or creating warehouses to consolidate information. Danette McGilvray will
discuss how information quality can make or break these types of projects
- to help a project stay on time and within budget or break the project
by increased project costs and timelines due to poor quality data. Danette
will show how one Fortune 500 company has implemented information quality
in a worldwide ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) migration project. Hear
about real-life best practices and lessons learned in the challenging world
of an integrated environment. |
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| Overview of Gateway Process:
In this interactive talk, members of the Standish Staff will present The
Standish Group's CHAOS Development Methodology (CDM) based on a revolutionary
gating process. The CDM uses a five-gate system that focuses on an iterative
requirement’s building procedure that insures maximum return on investment
(ROI) while minimizing risk. During this presentation, members will compare
this method of controlling projects against the typical task-milestone method. |
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| Legal Eagle, Beagle, or Smeagol?
The value of creating effective technical requirements is now considered
a best practice to achieving software development project success. However,
the crucial next step of effectively translating and integrating deep technical
knowledge into the legal contracting process is often not executed well,
if at all. This keynote will provide real world examples of software development
contracts and their key structures, as viewed from both client and provider
perspectives; highlighting what has, and has not, proved successful at reducing
TCO and increasing ROI by driving mutual satisfaction and avoiding conflict
escalation. A key outcome is to facilitate technical leaders' ability to
work with their legal department/counsel on contracts more effectively to
proactively improve project outcomes, prevent lawsuits, and win legal battles
(when necessary). |
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| Technology Trends: Last
January, we started to collect DARTS (Demand Assessment Requirements Tracking
Survey) data on a monthly basis and have acquired a large amount of primary
research to draw our conclusions. In this interactive talk, members of the
Standish staff will present The Standish Group's key DARTS results and trends
from this yearlong study. These trends include business intelligence, eCommerce,
application development and fifteen other categories. |
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| Increasing ROI with Model Driven
Architecture: Software is expensive to build, and more expensive
to maintain and integrate; worse, the moment it's created it's a legacy
that must be integrated with everything else that comes afterward. Demands
to decrease TCO and increase ROI require that we move up a level to designs
that allow implementation on many platforms, as implementation infrastructure
changes. Modeling is an obvious way to move to a meta-design level, and
Model Driven Architecture (MDA) extends models to implementation, maintenance
and integration of applications. Dr. Soley will focus on how MDA standards
maximize ROI by supporting long-term integration of corporate assets. |
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| A Decade of CHAOS: The
year 2004 marks the ten-year anniversary of the infamous CHAOS report and
nine years of CHAOS University. Gordon Divitt has earned his Masters Degree
from CHAOS University and as of this event will acquire the distinction
of Doctor of CHAOS. Dr. Divitt will travel back in time and describe how
the lessons learned at old CHAOS U have helped him be a better manager.
More importantly, Gordon will highlight the principal lessons of this year’s
event and discuss how he will use them in his current organization. |
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