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Issue: 014  |  September 2009
Agile Edge
Valtech present a one-day seminar offering a unique insight into the latest in Agile thinking and Lean management. Grant Rule and Bob Marshall join Alan Shalloway and Tony McKenzie in discussing current issues.



 
Is your development process fit for purpose?

Would you like to know how well your software systems support your business?

How much of the cost of new development is simply wasted?

A free Business Healthcheck from SMS will show you how to get maximum return from your software budgets.

Coming out of recession, money is still likely to be tight, and a new and more rigorous scrutiny applied to budgets. Business users are increasingly dissatisfied with the outcomes of software projects. They are demanding more for their money.

So IT is being asked to do more, with less. Our Business Healthcheck will offer you an insight into how you can square this circle.

For your free consultation, contact Phillip Standing


Enquire about our series of 1-day workshops on making software-intensive systems effective. Public schedule available shortly from www.smsexemplar.com

SMS Know-how courses:-

Introduction to the CMMI
(3-day workshop; SEI Authorised (3-day)* 19th-21st Oct
23rd-25th Nov

SEI Authorised
“CMMI for Services Supplement”*

22nd Oct
26th Oct

Practical Use of IFPUG 4 .2
Function Point Analysis
(2-day + 1-day workshop)
28th-29th Oct

Practical Use of COSMIC
Function Point Analysis
10th-11th Dec

Not quite what you need?
We will tailor a knowledge transfer programme to suit your needs and your budget, and deliver the result your business needs from investment in training.

 
SMS Webinar: Outcomes and Open Source: How CIOs can delight the Board
Traditional contract terms and SLAs are not delivering the outcomes businesses want from outsourced suppliers. Richard Sykes and Brian Meenagh discuss how to go about delivering real value from outsourced supply.


 
   
Effective Project Management
Alison Marsden draws on 25 years experience to offer practical insights into how to focus project management on results and not activities.


 
Achieving Real Improvement - how to champion effective software process improvement
The grown-up business does not concern itself with “maturity”. It needs software processes that grow capability and deliver effectively. Grant Rule looks at approaches which deliver business results from software process improvement.


 



SMS Knowledge 

Our new website contains archive copies of SMS webinars and past issues of Improvement Champion.

It also has all the registration links for upcoming events and training courses.




UNICOM 

Fundamentals of Benefits Realisation - powerful tools and techniques that realise required benefits from change programmes

Actually realising benefits - rather than just using them to justify a project and then forgetting about them – is a key issue today for the majority of private and public sector organisations.

Keith Jackson of TBL presents a practical approach to delivering benefit from change programmes.