More and more, IT systems are the results of complex supply chain incorporating applications developed by internal and outsourced teams and software vendors:

• Do these applications always meet your expectations?
• Is their performance, stability, security always in line with your requriments?
• Do you always keep their maintenance and change costs under control?
• Has testing alone helped you avoid all these issues?

Automated Quality Gates are a way to secure the quality of software application delivery in an effective and cost-efficient manner.

SOGETI and CAST invite you to a seminar on practical implementation of Quality Gates incorporating the best of software testing and automated software measurement.

Please join Mr. Frank Castellucci, former IT executive with ADP and Dr. Bill Curtis, co-author of CMM and CAST Chief Scientist, for an exclusive luncheon for application delivery and development professionals.

Join us for a conversation with senior IT executives from a large, multi-line financial services enterprise to discover how they approach practical software measurement in their organization. Topics will include a discussion of the change management required in implementing a metrics program, some of the caveats of measurement, and some practical tips and lessons learnt.

Join us for a panel discussion with a senior IT executive from a household consumer finance enterprise and a major systems integrator to talk about improving application outsourcing effectiveness. There is a significant amount written about multi-sourcing, but it’s a rare event to hear the two sides of the relationship discuss their differences and best practice to avoid common relationship pitfalls. Discussion will touch on quality, measurement, communication, trust, and what it means to build a solid relationship.

Join us for a conversation with a senior delivery executive from a major systems integrator who will talk about some of the advanced techniques a leading SI brings to their IT clients. Leading SIs generate business by being more efficient and effective in their approach to delivering and maintaining applications. This is the first time that an SI exec will go on air to tell the rest of us how they get it done in an industrialized way.

This session will cover some basic requirements for most IT organizations when it comes to regulatory compliance, and basic risk management. Topics on Application Security, measurement, and risk analysis will also be covered. Participants will learn how leading organizations are able to build GRC measures directly into their application lifecycles.