Summit 2006 In Review

The 10th annual Summit focuses on the IT trends that could revolutionize the way IT makes a difference. From an opening session exposing new business models that the impending broadband explosion will enable - and how those models will impact IT - to a session that opens up possibilities for collaborating with "partners" you might never have considered before, every session at Summit 2006 will give you the tools you need to give IT a leading role in your organization. Beyond being prepared to react to what future IT changes will bring, you'll be able join your business executives in setting future strategy based upon the opportunity these emerging trends will put forward.

The Summit has become the one conference that people return to year after year to take advantage of the brain trust that, each spring in Boston, congregates to debate the upcoming challenges business technologists worldwide will be facing in the coming years.

Keynotes

Each 90-minute keynote presentation is designed to make you question the status quo. And the 90-minute panel sessions that follow are a forum for debate and opinion around the ideas presented in the preceding keynote.

• The Broadband Explosion by Stephen Bradley
  
• From SLAs to Patents: How to Avoid IT-related Litigation and Focus on What Counts! by Tim Lister
  
• Adaptation and Diffusion of the Open Source Model: Is it Extreme Collaboration? by Siobhán O'Mahony
• Strategic Roadmapping - Linking Technology to Markets by Robert Phaal
• Wiki Software and the Changing Nature of Work by Ward Cunningham
• Emerging Technologies: Which Will Form the Foundation of Future IT Advances? by Lou Mazzucchelli
• The Summit In Review by Tom DeMarco

Roundtables

Like a special interest group meeting, the Summit's Roundtable sessions offer an opportunity to discuss nuts and bolts challenges. Starting with a common pain point, delegates and speakers alike challenge one another and brainstorm on best practices for overcoming obstacles to success.

• Governance in the Age of IT with Robert Charette
• Innovation with Borys Stokalski
• IT Strategic Planning with Jim Watson, Mike Rosen, and Jim Highsmith
• The Coexistence of Agile Practices and Enterprise Architecture with Bob Benson and Tom Bugnitz
• Business Process Management
  with Ken Orr
• Software as a Service
  with Jeff Kaplan

The Broadband Explosion

Keynote: Stephen Bradley, Professor, Harvard Business School
Panel Debate: Michael Enright, Marek Holynski, Robert Young, Matti Pylkkanen

True broadband, when it arrives, will radically change the way people work, the way that companies are organized and the way economic systems are structured. Professor Stephen Bradley of Harvard Business School will reveal how exploding bandwidth can supercharge innovation, and how it might alter the way businesses operate. From new technologies, and real-time collaboration, to new business models and the security and regulatory obstacles that will emerge, Steve will offer you insight into ways you can leverage the opportunities and prepare for the challenges that high-quality broadband will present.

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From SLAs to Patents: How to Avoid IT-related Litigation and Focus on What Counts!

Keynote: Tim Lister, Fellow, Cutter Consortium
Panel Debate: Sheleen Quish, Ed Yourdon, William Zucker

Outsourcing agreements, software licenses, software patent searches, service level agreements, and contractor agreements are all forcing IT executives to divert budget dollars and energy from revenue-generating opportunities towards legal advice and representation. In his keynote presentation, Cutter Consortium Fellow Tim Lister will help you remove the landmines in your contracts. From role-playing exercises, case studies, and advice based on Tim's many years experience helping companies manage troubled projects, and his role as a panelist for the American Arbitration Association, you'll learn how to identify potential conflicts in your contracts and minimize your risk of litigation.

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Adaptation and Diffusion of the Open Source Model: Is it Extreme Collaboration?

Keynote: Siobhán O'Mahony, Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School
Panel Debate: Lynne Ellyn, Brad Kain, John Tibbetts

While open source software is making inroads into areas that were once the sole terrain of proprietary vendors, the maturation of the open source model is having yet a greater effect on the industry - the more widely disseminated effects may be felt in the adaptation and diffusion of the open source development model, not only to software development, but also to other forms of collaborative content and knowledge production. In her keynote presentation, Siobhán O'Mahony will outline the social, technical, and legal aspects of the open source development model and reveal how they are adapted and recombined with more traditional approaches of collaboration to form new hybrids. While the lessons of corporate approaches to fostering community-created content are still being learned, Dr. O'Mahony reports on some strategies that have proven successful - critical information for organizations pondering how to build or manage their own communities, be they internal or external to the firm. With this insight, you'll be able to determine if an internal open source model might be right for your organization, or if participating in a cross-industry open source project, for example, might work within your governance structure.

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Wiki, Software and the Changing Nature of Work

Keynote: Ward Cunningham
Panel Debate: Sam Bayer, Christopher Hood, Richard Sears, Harry West

Ward Cunningham will show you how the organizational paradigm that people think of as business is changing. We've reached the tipping point, and the manufacturing paradigm no longer works. Today's emerging organizational structures value a purely creative environment and self-organizing principles. Discover how the organization of the future can be "big" without crushing creativity and why those firms that create an environment that's safe for emerging ideas will increase their chances of success in the new order.

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Strategic Roadmapping - Linking Technology to Markets

Keynote: Robert Phaal, Centre for Technology Management, University of Cambridge, UK
Panel Debate: Al Aiello, Bob Benson, Bartek Kiepuszewski, Julio César Margáin

Technology roadmapping, and its many derivatives, has become one of the most widely used approaches for supporting innovation and strategy, at firm, sector and national levels. A key benefit of the technique, (first used by Motorola in the '70s and since then adopted and adapted by many organizations) is the communication associated with the development and dissemination of roadmaps, particularly for aligning technology and commercial perspectives, balancing market "pull" and technology "push". In his keynote presentation, Dr. Robert Phaal will provide an overview of the most powerful and flexible roadmapping approach, comprising a time-based, multi-layered chart, enabling the various functions and perspectives to be aligned (illustrated below). He will focus on how organisations can initiate and customize the method to support strategy and innovation, and will illustrate the effectiveness of the technique with several case studies, highlighting key success factors and lessons learned from more than 80 industrial collaborations.

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Emerging Technologies: Which Will Form the Foundation of Future IT Advances?

Keynote: Lou Mazzucchelli, Fellow, Cutter Consortium

Cutter Fellow Lou Mazzucchelli will identify the must-have technologies for tomorrow's successful enterprises. From pay-as-you-go to Internet to 64-bit computing, you'll discover the pros and cons of the technologies that are making headlines today -- and those that may not yet have made it onto your radar. Find out which ones are OK to ignore and identify those to which you need to pay attention. Don't miss out -- the enterprises whose IT teams put these winning technologies into action first will gain a clear competitive edge.

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Summit 2006: Themes and Implications

Keynote: Tom DeMarco, Fellow, Cutter Consortium

Cutter Fellow Tom DeMarco will not only lead you through our unique program of keynotes and interactive debate, he'll pull together the Trends and Implications revealed throughout the Summit in his closing keynote.

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Workshops

Agile Business Intelligence with Ken Collier

Enterprise Project Portfolio Management with Donna Fitzgerald

Enterprise Agile: From Agile Teams to the Executive Suite with Jim Highsmith

Business Enterprise Architecture Modeling (BEAM) with Ken Orr