Computer Aid, Inc.
CIO Breakfast Briefings
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Upcoming
Events
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What is a Breakfast
Briefing?
This Spring, CAI Texas will be providing a few
opportunities for top executives to meet and interact with
respected IT thought leaders. These briefings will touch on
topics and invoke discussion that IT organizations need to
address to be effective.
Who Should Attend?
This event is focused on the issues that CIOs and
director-level managers have ensuring that software project
risk is effectively managed. CIO’s, software development
directors and PMO directors will get the most out of this
session. To keep the Briefing at the senior management
level, registration is limited to invitees and one guest
each.
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Risk Management
in a
Competitive Economic Environment
What is it
that prevents project managers -- and senior
IT executives, too, all the way up to the
CIO -- from practicing "serious" risk
management in a competitive global
environment that inevitably involves risk in
most projects.
On June 3,
Ed Yourdon, Computer Hall of Famer and
author of 27 books and over 500 articles on
software management, will be speaking at
CAI’s CIO Breakfast Briefing at the Plaza
Club (Frost Bank Tower) in San Antonio. Mr.
Yourdon will focus on why risk management is
practiced so poorly and what can be done
about it. While Mr. Yourdon's presentation
provides no "silver bullet" solutions to
risk management, it will give practical
advice on how your organization can improve
its practice.
Successful
risk management is possible, but requires an
entirely different approach to be
effective. After Mr. Yourdon’s talk Chuck
Keeler of CAI’s PMO will demonstrate how CAI
effectively tracks and manages project risk
issues to achieve the goal of “No
Surprises”.
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 Mr.
Ed YOURDON
Ed Yourdon
is a computer consultant, an author and
lecturer, and a recognized pioneer in the
software engineering methodology of
structured programming.
The
December 1999 issue of Crosstalk: The
Journal of Defense Software Engineering,
named Yourdon one of the ten most
influential people in the software field. In
June 1997, he was inducted into the Computer
Hall of Fame, along with such notables as
Charles Babbage, Seymour Cray, James Martin,
Grace Hopper, Gerald Weinberg, and Bill
Gates. Yourdon is widely known as the lead
developer of the Structured Systems Analysis
and Design Method (SSADM), as well as
co-developer of the Yourdon/Whitehead method
of object-oriented analysis/design and the
popular Coad/Yourdon OO methodology of the
late 1980s and 1990s.
He has
authored over 550 technical articles and
authored or coauthored 26 computer books
since 1967. He founded and published
American Programmer magazine (now titled
Cutter IT Journal). He is the author of the
best-selling Decline and Fall of the
American Programmer.
In addition
to serving on the Board of Directors of
iGate Corp, Ed has also served on the
Defense Department’s Airlie Council, an
advisory group that focused on finding “best
practice” guidelines and techniques for
large, complex projects throughout the
1990s. He is also a Fellow of the Business
Technology Trends Council for the Cutter
Consortium, of which he is a co-founder and
chairman, and he serves as Editor Emeritus
of the Consortium’s flagship publication,
the Cutter IT Journal.
Yourdon
currently serves as an
internationally-recognized expert witness
and computer consultant who specializes in
project management, software engineering
methodologies, and Web 2.0 development.
For more
information on Mr. Yourdon and his work,
here’s a link to Mr. Yourdon’s website (http://www.yourdon.com)
and his excellent blog (www.yourdonreport.com
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Venue
 Plaza
Club San Antonio
100 W. Houston Street
2100 Frost Bank Tower
San Antonio, TX 78205
Phone: 210.227.4191
Fax: 210.271.3994
For more event information call
1(888)851-4827 |
Agenda
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8:00 |
8:30 |
Breakfast |
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8:30 |
9:15 |
Risk Management in a Competitive
Economic Environment |
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9:15 |
9:30 |
Break |
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9:30 |
10:00 |
One
Way to Manage Project Risk: What CAI
has Done |
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10:00 |
10:30 |
Q &
A / Peer Networking |
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Aid Incorporated (CAI) has provided consulting and IT
outsourcing services to the Fortune 500 and large government
agencies for over 25 years. CAI has over 2000 employees in
more than 30 offices in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia.
CAI is represented in Texas by Joe Hessmiller. Joe can
be reached at (512) 487-5706 or at
joe_hessmiller@compaid.com.
Register By Phone
You can contact CAI regarding these
events at 1(888)851-4827
or email the registrar at
angela_fink@compaid.com.
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