Keynotes

KEYNOTES
Tuesday 2 November 09:30 - 10:30		DAMA INTERNATIONAL KEYNOTE SECRETS OF THE AGILE ORGANIZATION Tom DeMarco, Principal, Atlantic Systems Guild
Wednesday 3 November 9:00 - 10:00		INFORMATION QUALITY KEYNOTE MATURING YOUR IQ MANAGEMENT FUNCTION: KEYS TO SUSTAINABLE VALUE DELIVERY Larry P. English, President and Principal, INFORMATION IMPACT International, Inc.
Wednesday 3 November 13:20 -14:20		META DATA KEYNOTE METADATA - THE BIG PICTURE Graham Witt, Consultant, Aem Group

Tuesday
2 November
09:30 - 10:30

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DAMA INTERNATIONAL Keynote:
SECRETS OF THE AGILE ORGANIZATION

We live in an age of acceleration. Whatever the formula was for business success a few years ago, it won't work today. Today there needs to be more and more work crammed into less and less time. There are fewer people doing more and doing it faster in less space with less support and with tighter tolerances and higher quality requirements than ever before. So we have spent the last decade becoming ever more efficient. Now enter the need for change. In the super-accelerated corporation, meaningful change of direction is almost impossible. The very improvements that we made to go faster and cheaper have undermined our capacity to make any other kind of change. An organization that can accelerate but not change direction is like a car that can speed up but not steer. In the short run it makes lots of progress in whatever direction it happened to be going. In the long run it's just another road wreck.

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Tom DeMarco
Principal
Atlantic Systems Guild

Wednesday
3 November
9:00 - 10:00

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Information Quality Keynote:
MATURING YOUR IQ MANAGEMENT FUNCTION: KEYS TO SUSTAINABLE VALUE DELIVERY

Information Quality Management is NOT a project, NOR a program, NOR a functional unit. It is a journey of growth and maturation. When that IQ journey is taken, it leads to escalating reduction of the costs of process failure and its resulting information scrap and rework; increases in customer satisfaction and knowledge worker satisfaction; and increases in profit or surplus that can be used to add new value.

Maturity models have become a new fad. Someone counted over 120 different maturity models for quality management, software quality management, information quality and information management. Unfortunately, many of these do not contain the real ingredients of a quality maturity model as defined by Philip Crosby, in his seminal model, The Quality Management Maturity Grid, described in his book Quality Is Free. Some, tragically, are merely taxonomies of software tools!!!

In this presentation, Mr. English describes the journey of maturing the Organization’s IQ environment. While every organization will have its unique pilgrimage with its unique twists and turns, there are critical success factors each must accomplish to sustain the journey.

Mr. English describes:

The Stages of IQ Management Maturity
Taking Inventory: Where are you?
Establishing a Vision: “Begin with the End in Mind”
Planning your next Steps: “Put First Things First”
Assuring continual growth and improvement: “Hold the Gain”
Moving to Certainty: Counting the value you deliver

Featured Speaker

Larry P. English
President and Principal
INFORMATION IMPACT International, Inc.

Wednesday
3 November
13:20 -14:20

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Meta Data Keynote:
METADATA - THE BIG PICTURE

We often think that meta data is only found in tools or in a formal medium, but metadata is pervasive – it is to be found not only in models, but in references to model artefacts in specifications, in legends on screens and reports, and in references to data items in help screens. In Graeme’s keynote presentation, he will look at some key questions for all of us:

Where is the metadata?
How well are all these forms of metadata integrated?
Which is the source of truth?
How are changes propagated?
Do tools help or hinder?
What is the role of metadata in information quality?

Featured Speaker

Graham Witt
Consultant
Aem Group