Executive Level Breakfast Briefing
Date: October 18, 2011
Time: 8.30am to 11.00am
Location: 3i Infotech (Western Europe). Level 35, 25 Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London E14 5LQ
Technical debt is defined as the cost of fixing application quality problems that, if left unfixed, put the business at serious risk. There is almost £1 million of technical debt in an average IT application, but what does that mean and why should you care about it?
This October, CAST will release its latest worldwide results from the largest analysis of the structural quality of IT business applications ever conducted. Dr. Bill Curtis, Chief Scientist and SVP of CAST Research Labs along with its partner 3i Infotech will discuss the findings and implications from analysing over 800 business applications totalling more than 1 billion lines of code drawn from 8 industry verticals.
Following this thread, Vivek Mahendra, Head - Independent Testing Services, 3i Infotech will illuminate with his pragmatic approach to implementing a Software Quality Gate as a managed service to realise the full benefits of driving down the business risks caused by technical debt. The briefing will provide an informal opportunity for senior level networking with industry peers and to compare notes on this hot topic.
This briefing will outline:
1. What is technical debt, how do you estimate it, and which technologies are most susceptible to it?
2. What technology scores highest and lowest on Security?
3. What industry sectors score best and worst on Performance and Agility, and how does this translate into cost of ownership?
4. How does the size of an application affect its quality?
5. What are the new approaches to measure the cost of quality in Outsourced Application Development and Maintenance?
Agenda
08.30 Registration, Coffee, Croissants and Pastries and Welcome
09.15 Dr. Bill Curtis, Chief Scientist and SVP of CAST Research Labs
10.00 Vivek Mahendra, Head - Independent Testing Services,
Global IT Services, 3i Infotech
10.45 Q&A
11.00 Depart
Who should attend?
This non-technical seminar will attract Heads of Testing, Test Managers, Chief Information Officers, Quality Control, Compliance, Operations and IT Executives. This event is free to attend.
About CAST, and Dr Bill Curtis
CAST (www.castsoftware.com) is a pioneer and world leader in Software Analysis and Measurement, an automated approach to capture and quantify the quality, complexity and size of business applications. CAST introduces fact-based transparency into application development, maintenance and sourcing to transform it into a management discipline. More than 250 companies across all industry sectors and geographies rely on CAST to prevent business disruption and risk while reducing hard IT costs. With more than $90 million in R&D investment, founded in 1990, CAST serves IT-intensive Global 2000 enterprises and public sector institutions worldwide. CAST has a presence in the Americas, EMEA, India, and Asia/Pacific.
Bill Curtis, Senior Vice President and Chief Scientist is an industry luminary who is responsible for influencing CAST’s scientific and strategic direction, as well as helping CAST educate the IT market to the importance of managing and measuring the quality of its software. He is best known for leading development of the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) which has become the global standard for evaluating the capability of software development organisations.
About 3i Infotech, and Vivek Mahendra
3i Infotech is a Financial Services Software and IT Services Company with over 13,000 information technology and financial service professionals and clients in more than 50 countries across 5 continents. We create solutions that enable our clients to increase their operational efficiency & accelerate their growth allowing our clients to focus more resources on their core business objectives. Our clients are some of the largest Wealth and Asset Managers, Financial Services and Insurance firms.
Vivek Mahendra is the Global Head – Independent Testing & Compliance Services, a horizontal business within the Global IT Services of 3i Infotech. Vivek brings to this role a working knowledge of advising, and establishing testing and compliance centers for enterprises across the world, including the US and Western Europe markets. He has been instrumental in the design and transition of over 8 large testing offshore centers and 2 large regulatory compliance centers. He has over 17 years of experience in E-business consulting; IT Services advisory; Outsourcing advisory; Process improvement; and, QA / QC delivery across the world. Vivek is also a co-author of the eSourcing Capability Model for Service Providers and is a Visiting Scholar at Carnegie Mellon University, USA
You can register online or call Marketing on 020 7071 3037. This seminar is free to attend.