A
BCS (British Computer Society) Bedford branch Event at the Park Inn, Bedford
Date: Wednesday,
27 January 2016
Speakers: Martin Tate
Time:
6.30-8.00pm; registration starts at 6:00pm
Location:
Tavistock Suite, The Park Inn Hotel, 2 St Mary's Street, Bedford MK42 0AR
You are warmly invited to
attend a FREE evening talk at The Park Inn, Bedford (opposite Bedford College)
on Wednesday 27 January 2016.
”How to select
your new cloud provider: A rigorous, effective and proven approach” is the
topic of a talk by Martin Tate.
Most
organisations under-estimate the risks when selecting IT solutions such as
cloud provision. They use conventional product procurement approaches, or
the informal “I’ll know it when I see it”. Martin Tate’s presentation
explains why ordinary approaches pretty much guarantee the best candidate will
withdraw or be de-listed. He illustrates his methodical approach using an
actual cloud selection – his first was in 2002, before it was even termed cloud
– the winner was provably a better fit, but less than one-tenth the cost of the
runner up.
A ‘poacher turned gamekeeper’,
Martin formerly worked for an IT provider and was trained to sell
software. He has been an independent consultant for over 20 years,
specialising in evaluating, selecting and procuring off-the-shelf
solutions. He has personally run or rescued 52 selection projects and
appraised over 1,000 candidate solutions. However, the most important
statistic is zero – never once has an IT selection gone through his method and
procured software that proved unfit for purpose.
BCS awarded Martin Chartered
Fellow status in 2007 for eminence in the field of IT selections and in March
published his book ‘Off-The-Shelf IT Solutions: A practitioner's guide to
selection and procurement’.
More recently,
the International Requirements Engineering Board (IREB) published his article ‘IT
Requirements when Buying, not Making: Effective specifications to
select off-the-shelf software’ in the latest RE Magazine. You
can read this article at: http://re-magazine.ireb.org/issues/2015-4-building-the-extreme/
Agenda
6.00pm
Registration, refreshments and networking
6.30pm
Introduction
"How
to select your new cloud provider: A rigorous, effective and proven approach”
7.20pm
Opportunity to question the speaker
7.45pm
Thanks
Opportunity to network and talk to the
speakers
There is free
parking to the rear of The Park Inn Hotel. Note: Please give your vehicle
registration at reception on arrival otherwise you may incur a penalty
charge. Parking spaces are also available at a £1 charge on the Bedford
College Campus. There are also free parking areas in the vicinity.
Everybody is
welcome – please mention this to friends and colleagues.
Information
on this and other talks are available on our Branch website: www.beds.bcs.org.uk
. All views and opinions are the author's and do not necessarily reflected those of any organisation they are associated with
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