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Bernard Marr |
The Advanced Performance Institute
Making Measurement Relevant
Bernard Marr is one of the world’s leading experts on strategic performance management. In this capacity he has advised and worked with many leading organisations including Accenture, Astra Zeneca, the Bank of England, Barclays, BP, DHL, Fujitsu, Gartner, HSBC, Mars, the Ministry of Defence, the Home Office, Tetley, the Royal Air Force, and Royal Dutch Shell. He has extensive work experience in private companies, public sector organisations, and governments across North America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia, which makes him an acclaimed keynote speaker, consultant, teacher, and award-winning writer. In its recent article ‘wise guys’ the CEO Journal recognised Bernard Marr as one of today’s leading business brains.
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Grant Rule |
Software Measurement Services
The ’software project’ concept considered harmful
Grant Rule, founder of Software Measurement Services Ltd, has 35 years experience in project and process appraisal, performance measurement, estimating, benchmarking and improvement. He is a recognised authority on quantitative methods. He and Ken Dymond introduced the CMM® into the UK, and brought Europe the first public ‘Introduction to the CMMI®’. He helped improve structured methods, ISO standards, and IFPUG & MkII FPA. A member of COSMIC developing 3rd generation sizing methods, he is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of the Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce. His current mission is to encourage lean, more agile practices.
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Grant Bayne
Gartner
Benchmarking
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| Grant Bayne is a consultant with Gartner, based in the United Kingdom. Mr. Bayne has more than 25 years of experience in the IT industry, and has been with Gartner since 1995. Mr. Bayne’s primary area of expertise is performance management for applications development and support, and he is a member of Gartner’s application development and support benchmarking group.Mr. Bayne has worked on more than 100 applications benchmark engagements with companies around the world. He also provides advice and training on software process improvement, performance management, software metrics programmes and software sizing and estimation. Mr. Bayne has taken part in several SEICMM/CMMI (the Software Engineering Institute’s Capability Maturity Model/Capability Maturity Model Integration) assessments. |
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Richard Bridges
Eurocopter
Eurocopter experience with COSMIC
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| Richard Bridges has over 20 years experience of airborne software development for military and civil applications and is currently software architect at a main European helicopter manufacturer. He works on the avionics systems for a medium weight transport helicopter and is involved in Design, Integration and Qualification activities of the avionic software. Involvement with process improvement programmes and a CMMI certification has lead the presenter to investigate Function Point methods to improve software estimations and assist project management tasks. The presenter is a member of the UKSMA. |
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Murali Chemuturi
Chemuturi Consultants
Customer Satisfaction
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| Murali Chemuturi is a Fellow of the Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering and a Senior Member of Computer society of India. He is a veteran of software development industry and is presently leading Chemuturi Consultants, which provides consultancy in software process quality and training. |
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Ally Gill
Allygill.co.uk
Pitfalls and Best Practices for Dashboard Developers
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Ally Gill is an independent Software Process Management consultant, with nearly 25 years software development and management experience, including 10 years Process Improvement experience, primarily with SW-CMM/CMMI and ISO 9000.
Prior to setting up ALLYGILL.CO.UK, Ally worked at DNV ITGS (formerly Q-Labs) and before that he was the Business Improvement and Quality Leader for EDS’ European Application Delivery Organisation, where he led various metrics and measurement initiatives. |
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Raymond Gorman
Micro Focus
Using software measures and metrics to manage an outsourcing contract
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| Raymond Gorman has worked in the IT industry for over 20 years in a variety of roles starting in development and systems analysis through programme and change management. In his current role as a Business Consultant with Micro Focus he regularly engages with clients to provide advice and experience in managing and modernising their application portfolio. Ray has experience in building IT governance solutions utilising software metrics to drive decision making based on facts. |
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Georgina Griffiths
Elsevier
Experiences of metrics capture for change management
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| Georgina Griffiths MPhil CMath MIMA is the Quality Assurance & Metrics Analyst in the department that develops Elsevier’s global back office IT systems. This year she has been focussing on process improvement within the department, as well as continuing to measure vendor performance. |
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Graham Lea
Elsevier
Experiences of metrics capture for change management
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| Graham Lea is the Release Manager for Elsevier’s Corporate Business Solutions. His aim is to provide a simple solution to allow performance metrics to be gathered, support the initiatives for process improvement and provide reporting on the metrics for those key stakeholders who need to have data at the heart of their decision making process. |
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Peter Leeson
Q:PIT Ltd
Measuring return on investment in low maturity organizations
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| Peter Leeson is an experienced process improvement specialist, as well as an SEI-authorized lead appraiser, CMMI instructor and visiting scientist. He is the director of Q:PIT Ltd and has personal experience implementing measurable quality and productivity improvement activities across the world. |
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Dr Carolyn Mair
Southampton Solent University
How Cognitive Psychology Can Help Analogy-Based Project Estimation
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| Dr Carolyn Mair is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Southampton Solent University. She lectures in Cognitive Psychology and Psychobiology and her research interests are in cognitive processes. |
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Andy Nolan
Rolls Royce
Experiences in leading a six sigma Black Belt into estimation
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| Andy Nolan works for Rolls-Royce Controls System department as their Chief Software Engineer. He is a fellow member of the BCS and chartered engineer. He is also a six sigma Black Belt. He has led the development of the metrics program for the last 8 years. |
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Dr Tony Rollo
Software Measurement Services
Introduction to software sizing using Function Points
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Dr Anthony (Tony) Rollo BA PhD MBCS is a Director and Principal Consultant for Software Measurement Services Ltd. He has worked and taught in the field of software engineering since 1973.He is an expert in estimation & cost modelling with extensive experience of the three main ISO-standard Functional Size Measurement methods. A contributor to the COSMIC Metrics Practices Committee, Tony is a Certified Function Point Specialist in both IFPUG and Mk II Function Point Analysis. He has a strong background in structured programming, analysis and design, both from the practical and academic viewpoints.Tony is a specialist in Performance Benchmarking. He is the Lead Author of the International Software Benchmarking Standards Group’s Standard Benchmarking Process, and a member of the SEI’s Performance Benchmarking Consortium.
He is experienced in the practical implementation of Process Improvement and Software Measurement.
Tony has performed process assessments based on the SEI’s Capability Maturity Model and provided support to organisations re-engineering their software development processes. He has conducted supplier capability assessments against the CMMI® and elements of P-CMM.
Tony has presented introductions to the CMMI in both Russia and the USA.Tony is an amusing presenter who has contributed to a variety of conferences. He was a Keynote speaker at the 2005 UKSMA conference on the topic – The end of Software Engineering in the West, and has also been a frequent presenter at the European SEPG conference; the Software Measurement Forum in Rome, and the Australian conference on software measurement. He spoke at the Chinese conference on software Process Improvement in Beijing in 2006 and has been invited to address the Chinese Software Process Improvement Conference (SPIN) in Beijing, China, during 2008. |
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Clifford Shelley
Oxford Software Engineering
Introduction to Estimating
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| Clifford Shelley is a consulting software engineer with experience of software development across several industry sectors and in diverse development and support environments. He has been involved in all phases of software development from requirements capture through to operations and has been responsible for the development of many software systems and products.
A particular strength is his ability to identify workable solutions to pressing software engineering problems in organizations operating within severe resource constraints.
He has a long term, wide ranging interest in software measurement, and has been involved in a number of initiatives to promote measurement in software organizations.
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Prof Martin Shepperd
Brunel University
How Cognitive Psychology Can Help Analogy-Based Project Estimation
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| Prof Martin Shepperd holds the Chair of Software technology at Brunel University. His research interests include software engineering and project cost modelling. |
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Dr Mark Stephens
EDS
How Cognitive Psychology Can Help Analogy-Based Project Estimation
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| Dr Mark Stephens works for global outsourcer EDS as part of their Application Services Global Metrics Group. He has recently been involved with Estimation improvement initiatives, but has a keen interest in all metrics related disciplines. |
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David Whalley
The Co-operative Financial Services
Striking The Right Balance : Performance Management, 3rd Party Suppliers, and Balanced Scorecard
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| David Whalley is a member of The Co-operative Financial Services’ team of Management & Control Consultants. He works with his colleagues to ensure their IT outsourcing contract with Steria is managed and reported on effectively, with specific responsibilities for analysing and reporting the metrics via a Balanced Scorecard approach. |
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