SPEAKERS

Sanmit Ahuja

ETI Dyanamics

Raju Chinthalapati
University of Greenwich

Lorraine King, Product Marketing Manager
BSI
Lorraine is responsible for standards relating to IT, information security and electronic information management; business continuity management and food safety management. She joined BSI in July 2010 after working across a number of business service industries including a number of years in financial services.

Lisa Young

CERT Resilience Enterprise Management Team

Kieran Doyle
Director at Excellence in Measurement Technology Ltd
As an SEI certified Lead Appraiser, he leads all types of CMMI appraisals. He has also work closely with organisations to guide their improvement activities towards achievement of their improvement goals. In the past 2 years he has worked a lot with the CMMI for Services model. This is a great extension to the CMMI suite and takes it out of just the engineering arena and into dealing with all types of service industry.

Dr. Aleksandar Stojanovic
Head of Department of Accounting and Finance,

Director of Centre for Governance, Risk and Accountability

Greenwich Business School

Charles Symons

President
The Common Software Measurement International Consortium

Lindsey Brodie
Middlesex University

Dr. Bill Curtis
Sr. VP & Chief Scientist, CAST Software
Director, Consortium for IT Software Quality

Peter Leeson

Certified Lead Appraiser and CMMI Instructor

SEI Visiting Scientist

Tom Gilb

Bob Marshall

Jay Douglass

SEI - International Business Manager, USA
Program Development & Transition
Jay Douglass has been working at the SEI for the last fifteen years. He currently manages the SEI's business in Europe. Jay has worked with all SEI programs and is an instructor of the Introduction to the CMMI Course.

22nd September 2010

Mike George is a best - selling author, management tutor/trainer and inspirational speaker. He guides, coaches and facilitates the personal and executive development of people in communities and companies in over thirty countries. He brings together the three key strands of the 21st century, emotional and spiritual intelligence and continuous unlearning. Some of his publications include "The 7 AHA!s of Highly Enlightened Souls"; "Don't Get MAD Get Wise" and "In the Light of Meditation".

The purpose of the seminar was to give participants a clear insight into the cause and effect of emotions, the distinction between emotion and feelings and how both can be harnessed to enhance your management skills and leadership style.

25th March 2010

Marilyn Bush

CEO, Marilyn Bush Associates

Marilyn Bush is one of the original authors of The Capability Maturity Model: Guidelines for Improving the Software Process(1995) and co-author of CMMI Assessments: Motivating Positive Change (Addison-Wesley, 2005). Bush became a consultant on the international scene after twenty years of engineering and management experience culminating in a position as senior manager and headquarters-level consultant on software improvement issues at NASA. Her specialty involves working with senior management to implement process improvement, and she is currently one of the world's most experienced CMM and CMMI Lead Appraisers.

25th March 2010

Chris Gerrard

Chris has extensive experience of organising and managing software development and maintenance operations. He has implemented software development best practice in organisations in industries as diverse as banking, manufacturing, telecoms and defence.

His primary work aim is to ensure development shops operate effectively, following professional, repeatable processes with minimal System Development, System Deployment, Service and Maintenance risk. He successfully led a multi-platform programme with 50+ developers and 60+ testers to very tight deadlines with board-level focus and participation. Chris is an advocate of the CMMI and has successfully led many large organisations (700+ software developers) to improved Capability Maturity levels, achieving significant, substantiated changes to performance and effectiveness en-route.