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Design your own agenda: choose one breakout seminar in the morning and one in the afternoon.
Service Mashups: A Visual Introduction
It’s a fundamental promise of service-orientation that small, elemental software services can beget larger, more comprehensive services without a corresponding increase in complexity. The vehicles for creating these complex service mashups include Business Process Management (BPM), service orchestration, and choreography. In this talk, John Tibbetts will provide a brief, illustrated overview of the high points and low points of each, cutting through today’s SOA jingoism and suggesting a pragmatic path to using services for both simple and complex tasks.
Semantically Aware Systems in the Real World
Semantics is increasingly appearing in computer software journals. Terms like ontology and taxonomy are increasing in frequency. Tim Berners-Lee has popularized the idea of the “Semantic Web”. Some of these discussions are overblown like some early discussions of AI were, however, even low-level semantic awareness can produce much more sophisticated, easier to adapt, easier to use application systems. This roundtable will discuss where semantics-aware systems are today and where they’re going.
How to Collect and Use Metrics in Agile Software Development Environments
If you're implementing or considering agile methods in your organization, how do compare productivity and quality against waterfall projects? Join Michael Mah to understand both agile and waterfall metrics, and how to communicate differences in the ways they behave to key decision makers. » Full description
Master Data Management: Critical Success Factors
Spend this morning with Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Larissa Moss to gain insight into what you need to do to play a strategic leadership role in overseeing enterprise-wide data integration programs such as MDM, CDI, CRM, data warehousing, business intelligence, and so on and help direct your organization to commit to business integration (not just technology) to successfully manage its data assets. » Full description
CIO/CTO Forum
With the economy in a downward slide, and technology moving at an ever faster pace, CIOs and CTOs face an increasingly challenging world. They must keep systems running, introduce architectural changes that will allow the business to be more agile and to operate at greater velocity, foster and fuel innovation, and help business adapt to the emergence of new market influences such as social networking. And all this needs to be done faster, cheaper, better. These are exactly the topics that the 2008 Cutter Summit keynotes will focus on, culminating in this CIO- and CTO-only half-day roundtable that will drill down on exactly how to succeed with this daunting mission. Facilitated by Harvard Business School Professor, Warren McFarlan, who is not only an internationally recognized authority but also an unparalleled master at this type of interactive session, this forum promises to be as entertaining as it is enlightening!
Practical Business Architecture
Business Architecture is more than just models and diagrams; it provides the broad starting point for the Enterprise Architecture (EA) process, and contains the whys, whens, and whats of the business strategy and its impact on IT. One of EA's most important goals is to "align business and IT." However, this often proves elusive because it is too "fuzzy" or too difficult. This workshop demystifies Business-IT Alignment by looking at how alignment can be practically measured in IT Systems and the EA Program. » Full description
The Road to Stronger IT Governance: Paved with Effective IT Financial Management
In this half-day workshop, Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Bob Benson will provide you with - and teach you how to use - a framework for IT financial management and budgeting that will not only improve the financial impact of IT in your organization, but will also enable you to gain the support of your CFO and strengthen your relationships with business unit management. This workshop is not a discussion of "chargeback" - it is a discussion of how IT budgets and costs are central to effective governance. You will discover the impact of your organization's choice of budget structure; categories of costs that should be included in your IT budgets; business support costs for IT, such as HR and accounting; payment options for business units; and how these relate to your enterprise's basis for evaluating and valuing IT investment. » Full description
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