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----------------------------------------------------------- From: shri Message 1 in Discussion Hello BDOTNET members, Well I recently joined this group and thought to share with you all. Regards, shri **************** Hello SPIN Members, We have an interesting talk this month. The culture clash that happens within an organization engaged in SPI initiatives is something you are all aware of. This month you will have an opportunity to look into the possibility of introspecting and adopting an innovative approach to SPI. We hope you will be able to take this new software process improvement perspective back with you at the end of this presentation. Please invite your Managers and Senior Management to this talk. The talk will be on 21st May 2004 Friday at Sasken. The details are as follows: Topic: To Hell with Processes: Understanding the Culture Clash and Real Quality Speaker: Deependra Moitra, Infosys Technologies Date: 21.05.04 [Friday] Venue: Sasken Profile of Speaker: Deependra Moitra is currently an Associate Vice President at Infosys Technologies, where he spearheads thought leadership and market-driven technology R&D. Previously he worked as general manager at Bell Laboratories/Lucent Technologies India R&D facility in Bangalore, which he co-founded and where he briefly but successfully led the quality initiative. Prior to that, he led the software project and quality management function in Siemens Public Communication Network Division's communication software group and worked as a scientist in the Indian Space Research Organization. Deependra specializes in strategy, innovation and technology management in software and information technology industries, and his current interests include management of technological innovation, IT led business innovation, adaptive enterprises, R&D management and R&D outsourcing. He currently serves or has served on the Editorial Boards of several international journals including Research and Technology Management, Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management, Journal of High Technology Management Research, Information & Management, IEEE Software, Journal of Systems and Software, Journal of Knowledge Management, and Knowledge Management: Research and Practice, He is also a contributing editor for Strategy & Leadership, an Executive Advisory Panel Member for the Academy of Management Executive, and an executive editor for Information Systems Frontiers. Deependra has served as the Program Chair or a member of the program committees of several international conferences on management and technology. He is a senior member of the IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Engineering Management Society, a member of the Association for Information Systems, Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), Academy of Management, and currently serves on the IEEE Computer Society and Publications Board. Deependra has lectured extensively and delivered several invited talks, both in India and abroad, on various topics falling within his areas of interest. His interviews and talks have appeared in newspapers, trade press magazines and TV channels, within India as well as in the USA, Europe and Japan, and he has been widely quoted in many articles and books. Deependra has several papers and articles to his credit and is a member of several national and international committees. Abstract: With the emergence of the software process improvement wave across the globe, most software enterprises launched SPI programs with much fanfare. A plethora of models and techniques were introduced, or extracted and extended from the popular Japanese quality management practices. In their quest for business excellence, most corporations took recourse in the comforts of seemingly silver bullet models and techniques, hoping that a corporate renewal was in order. However, while every software enterprise today has some certification to boast of, implying it has achieved the hallmark of performance, the customers have actually remained without any measurable benefits. The saga of the CXOs and the employees is not any better either. While a bespectacled software geek appears to wear an amusing smile hearing of SPI, quality audits and "processes", the poor CXOs are in a rather dilemmatic situation as most of them cannot testify that they have gained from SPI investments but cannot do away with the program because they will be out of fashion otherwise. Bottom line: most of the QIP and SPI programs have not paid off, at least in measurable terms for those they were actually intended - the customers and stakeholders. The purpose of this talk is to present some personal, deeply held views to generate intense discussions to uncover the key to solving the above highlighted problem. Drawing from his experiences and observations, and in an interactive manner, the speaker focuses on unleashing the thought process vital for understanding and implementing real quality. This talk seeks to surface why culture clash happens within an organization engaged in SPI initiative and how such clashes can be addressed by focusing on business contexts and by aligning with the motivations of the people in the trenches. More importantly, the talk emphasizes on some critical skills the evangelists of quality must possess to avoid employees screaming, "To hell with processes." Above all, this talk is aimed at helping quality professionals and organizations to introspect and adopt an innovative approach to SPI and quality management. Sponsor : Sasken Date : 21st May 2004 Friday Venue : Sasken Agenda 1800 - 1830 hrs. - Networking. 1830 - 1930 hrs. -Talk 1930 - 1955 hrs. - Q & A session. 1955 - 2000 hrs. - Wrap-up and closing About the venue: Sasken Ltd., #139/25, Amar Jyoti Layout, Ring Road, Domlur P.O., Bangalore 560 071 Contact: K. Ganesh. [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] and/or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 5355501/5355503 ext 8091 Mobile: 98442 63214 Security Procedures - You are requested to follow the security requirements at Sasken. 1. Communicate to the Security personnel at the Reception, that you have come to attend the SPIN meeting 2. Enter the details in the Attendance sheet 3. Drop your visiting card in the Drop box (Note :Though you have dropped your visiting card in the drop box during earlier SPIN meetings, you are expected to drop it again during every visit as this is required for personal identification and to comply with the Sasken security procedures) 4. Visit Cafeteria and Auditorium as directed by the Security (Note: The SPIN invitees are not supposed to visit any part of the Sasken except Cafeteria and Auditorium) 5. Mark out-time at the Security office in the Attendance sheet, before leaving Sasken office Directions: >From Indranagar, 100 ft road 1. Go down 100 ft road towards Airport Road/Intermediate ring road junction. 2. Cross Airport road onto the Intermediate ring road towards Koramangala. 3. Go past the Hero Honda show room and the Power distribution station on your left. 4. Immediately after the distribution station, take the next break in the median and turn back towards Indiranagar. 5. Take the first left. Sasken is signposted from there. >From Koramangala 1. Go down the Intermediate ring road towards Indiranagar. 2. The road goes over a small bridge. 3. After crossing the bridge watch out for the next break in the median on your right. 4. Keep going straight down the Ring road. Take the first left AFTER crossing the break. 5. Sasken is signposted from there. Sasken has ample parking space. Please note, you will be better off bringing your own vehicle. However, you can get autos from the Ring Road. <<Sasken_Route_Map.doc>> We have also attached the route map. 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