"Warren S. Reid accepts invitation to be sole presenter at November and December 2008 Los Angeles SPIN meetings!"
On November 7, 2008, Warren will present his two new qualitative/process models:
Part A. "Riskipedia 2.0 -- Failure Factors That Fly Under the Radar: Hidden, Yet Debilitating Software Project Cripplers! This presentation discusses why, after 25 years of knowing exactly “Why Systems Fail?”["He Said ... She Said Model"] -- only 2/3 of large scale systems projects today still come in late, over budget, under-functioning or scrapped altogether? Warren explores what we likely have all missed!
Part B. "Requirements Elicitation: Why So Difficult -- Still?" Requirements are nasty, difficult, changing, and unknown – if you get them wrong at the start of the project, you are in big trouble. So, one more time – but with different emphasis – how can we do a better job in this elusive, oftentimes frustrating, people-heavy area!
On December 5, 2008 Warren will present:
Part A. “CPR (Cooperative Project Recovery): Reviving the Drowning Large IT Project” (V2.0) Warren takes you through his 13 step CPR methodology to get a failing or runaway project back up and completed. Warning: It’s simple – but not easy!
Part B. "Lessons Learned in the Crucible: Secrets of a High Tech Expert Witness!"
Even though you believe you followed best practices and adhered to good testing, project management, and SDLC methodologies, your delivered system is not accepted for a number of reasons – real or bogus. What should YOU expect from a jury of laypersons, 3-4 years later, at a trial. And what can you do TODAY to emerge with the fewest scars from this frightening ordeal. Your ultimate reality show: “Tales from the Crypt! Real people! Real stories! Real trials!
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SPOTLIGHT on BRUCE BLITCH, Senior Manager: CIO, CFO and qualified SAP ERP implementation expert witness
Having managed many successful Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems successfully, including Baan, JD Edwards, Peoplesoft and SAP, Bruce knows ERP, very well! He has been designated as an expert witness in allegedly failed SAP ERP implementation litigation.
Bruce has over 25 years in assisting companies to recognize tangible business improvements through information technology innovation - delivering enhancements to profitability, efficiency, and/or market position. That includes ten years of global systems responsibilities and international posts in a Fortune 500 company, and fifteen years in positions as CIO and/or CFO for multi-location/state financial retail service and multi-national manufacturing companies. Click here for Bruce's resume.
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We will finish several IT and IP related cases that may very well get to trial this year including matters covering HIPPA rules, lack of proper estimating and project management methodologies in very large-scale system implementations, fraudulent practices by giant ERP providers. We are also in discussions with alleged system failures outside of the United States.
Randy Brown, a Senior Manager who has worked with WSR Consulting Group, LLC on litigation and IT turnaround for almost 15 years, will be testifying in one matter, and Warren S. Reid will testify in two others (Federal and State Courts).
Warren S. Reid is continuing and expanding his guest lecturing role at the University of Southern California's graduate school program in software engineering on “The Business & IT Sides of Software Project Contracting: Knowing what to do can save your project, your company, and your career!” on April 18, 2008.
Warren Reid will continue to guest lecture at the Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles presenting very practical concerns and issues in modern IT and systems development, implementation and maintenance/support contracts, and also kicking off a new case study re WEB 2.0, ERP, e-commerce, and bhttp://www.swlaw.edu/academics/course_listings/course_details/50ack office system integration issues, among others, to enrich the students’ learning experience. http://www.swlaw.edu/academics/course_listings/course_details/50
Warren Reid’s provocative “He Said … She Said” thought piece has been presented, discussed, published and quoted myriad times in the past several years in North America, Europe, Middle East and Asia. It has been used in U.S. and foreign court jurisdictions as well. He has updated it, once again and added his “ -abilities ” construct to the model in a very short thought piece guaranteed to make you laugh (because you have seen these failures or have been guilty of these failures yourself so many times) and cry (because you have seen these failures or have been guilty of these failures yourself so many times) entitled, “Why Do Systems & Software Projects Fail? 2007” that you can find on the HG Experts Legal Experts page at http://www.hgexperts.com/hg/legalarticle-software-projects.asp.
Warren Reid is one of the five speakers (along with a Federal Court judge, a Superior Court judge, an appellate court lawyer, and a well known litigator) presenting to in-house counsel members of the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACCA - Southern California). Mr. Reid’s talk is entitled: “Looking for Mr./Ms. “Right: Selecting the right expert! Selecting the right counsel! Anecdotal Lessons from large-scale systems failure disputes”, as part of the three hours seminar entitled.
The seminar is hosted by the law firm of Buckhalter & Nemer and is entitled: “How to Win Your Case Without Losing your Shirt!”
MBASE stands for “ Model-Based System Architecting & Software Engineering” developed over several years at the University of Southern California in a project led by world renowned Software Engineering PhD Program Chair, Professor Barry Boehm.
Warren Reid recently added his thoughts and experiences to the model regarding hidden conflicts and different/competing goals, priorities and/or objectives that oftentimes exist within each software development/implementation project constituency (i.e., Acquirers, Vendors, Users, and IT Departments) that can surely cripple large-scale systems projects and implementations if not uncovered and addressed early.
Warren S. Reid has been asked to present at two CIO Practical Learning Seminar meetings in July 2008 and August 2008 Los Angeles. He will talk on “An Inconvenient Lesson: What To Do IF WHEN Your Company Is Sued Over Its Next System Project Implementation!
The materials for these Learning Seminars are being prepared now – but you are invited to review:
Warren Reid’s provocative “He Said … She Said” thought piece has been presented, discussed, published and quoted myriad times in the past several years in North America, Europe, Middle East and Asia. It has been used in U.S. and foreign court jurisdictions as well. He has updated it, once again and added his “-abilities” construct to the model in a very short thought piece guaranteed to make you laugh (because you have seen these failures or have been guilty of these failures yourself so many times) and cry (because you have seen these failures or have been guilty of these failures yourself so many times) entitled, “Why Do Systems & Software Projects Fail? 2007” that you can find on the HG Experts Legal Experts page at http://www.hgexperts.com/hg/legalarticle-software-projects.asp.
Warren Reid keynotes at the 8th Annual Southern California Coalition Technology Conference (SCCTC) Long Beach, CA – Saturday, August 25, 2007. Warren Reid’s Keynote Speech, “CPR (Cooperative Project Recovery): Reviving the Drowning Large-Scale IT Project”, introduces you to Mr. Reid's tested 4-tier, 13 step model which focuses on the actions that must be taken to turn around, overcome and compensate for deficiencies in project management, methodology, technology, and people in live projects -- before you scrap the project, fire your staff, and/or move to litigation!
SCCTC was created by a coalition of the Southern Californian Project Management Institute (PMI), the Quality Assurance Institute (QAI) and the Association of IT Professionals (AITP) to create a forum of interest to all IT professionals at all points of the systems development life cycle, from project conception through development, testing and into project closeout.
WSR Consulting Group, LLC specializes in the areas of: Computer Failure and Software Failure Litigation and Expert Witness Testimony . Computer Crisis & Software Project Turnaround and Information Technology Consulting . Technology & Software Intellectual Property Disputes & Misappropriation . Internet litigation. We provide computer expert witnesses, expert deposition and expert testimony. Our computer and software experts and consultants specialize in: computer system and software analysis . software project management & estimation . software project quality assurance . computer software selection . system and software requirements gathering & design . software development & coding . computer system and software testing & defect management . data base, data warehouse & file conversions . computer system and software implementation, go-live and maintenance activities . computer system and software failure analysis and root causes. These services are performed for Enterprise Resource Planning ( ERP ) systems, CRM systems, manufacturing and distribution systems and software, commercial applications, POS (Point Of Sale) systems, ticketing systems, government and military systems and software, MIS based systems and more. We have been designated and/or testified as computer failure experts, software failure experts, system failure experts, ERP failure experts, ERP system experts, software project failure experts, system development life cycle (SDLC) methodology experts, software implementation methodology experts, systems integration methodology experts, software project management experts, system valuation and software company valuation experts, and IP experts in U.S., Canadian, Asian, and European courts.
WSR Consulting Group, LLC provides expert analysis re: software project estimates, computer project staffing, software project management and progress reporting . compliance with applicable commercial and industry standards & methodology (including PMBOK, SWEBOK, IEEE, ISO-9000, Mil-Spec standards, METHOD/1, Big-4 standards) . cost-to-complete analysis . software defect management systems . system, performance and functional testing, and tuning . scope creep and scope change analysis . schedule delay analysis . IT best practices . consultants use of best practices, consulting industry standards, consultants software development methodologies . consultants' ethics
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