Watts Humphrey Awards 2018 Brought to you by CSPIN Present your practice November 12, 2018 | Monday 1.30 PM - 6.15 PM What is Watts Humphrey Awards? Watts Humphrey Awards is a Prestigious recognition from SPIN Chennai initiated to honor the software engineering Guru Dr. Watts Humphrey. Teams from various organizations across industries will be invited to nominate their practice / case study. Jury will evaluate the submissions (offline) and shortlisted teams will be invited to present their story and showcase their practices on the day of the awards in front of the Grand Jury. The team that best exemplify, articulate and demonstrate the practices on the theme will be awarded with Grand Plaque, Certificates, Cash awards and Presentation slot at SPICON 2019 (Intl Conference). Motivated by the success of the award we launched in the past years, we are making it bigger, better and more grandeur this time. Check out http://spinchennai.org/events/event/watts-humphrey-awards-2018/ for more details. Introduction The business world is moving from treating IT as a utility that improves internal operations to using rapid software and technology powered innovation cycles as a competitive advantage. This has far reaching consequences. The traditional program and project management models we have used for software development are unsuited to rapid innovation cycles. Software development requires a different way of running. Agile and Automation are leading the way forward. With the advent of Agile & Automation, an enormous amount of demand from people working in enterprises who wanted to adopt Lean startup, Design thinking, DevOps frameworks and practices. A large number of companies have achieved measurable benefit from using Agile & Automation techniques; resulting in delivery of higher-quality products to market faster, increased customer satisfaction, and higher returns on investment. This comes with reduced cost and risk as well as happier employees who are no longer working unsustainable hours and have the opportunity to harness their creativity and passion at work. Hence, this year, SPIN Chennai has chosen Agile & Automation as the theme for Watts Humphrey Awards 2018. And wants to recognize the teams and organizations that infuse these practices for maximum business value and impact. Agile & Theme Automation for 2018 Business Value and Impact ★ Submit your stories / practices on Topics for presentation the topics below Automating for Continuous 1 Being Agile 4 Delivery Your practices and experiments on Being Share your Automation story on increasing Agile w.r.to Culture and Practices deployment frequency, lead time to change, MTTR, Change Failure rate. 2 Lean Software Development 5 DevOps implementation Applying lean startup and design thinking to Share you experience and impact on Culture, Automation, software development Lean, Measurement etc while adopting DevOps 3 Agile @ Scale 6 Process Automation Your experience, techniques and framework Share your case studies on process for large scale Agile Transformation automation using RPA and other tools Most importantly The practice/story should be adaptable, repeatable, innovative or even the next practice, and most importantly, it should be your practice which you can demonstrate with benefits and business value creation convincingly. Prizes & Recognition Winner 1st Runner Up 2nd Runner Up ★ Grand Plaque ★ Grand Plaque ★ Grand Plaque ★ Rs. 10000/- cash award ★ Rs. 6000/- cash award ★ Rs. 4000/- cash award to team to team to team ★ Certificates to the team ★ Certificate to the team ★ Certificates to the ★ 2 Special tickets for ★ 2 Special tickets for team SPICON 2019 SPICON 2019 ★ 1 year SPIN ★ Presentation slot at the ★ 1 year SPIN membership SPICON 2019 membership ★ 1 year SPIN membership Agenda - November 12 1.30 PM - Post lunch session 2.00 PM - Welcome note & introduction 2.15 PM - Presentation by shortlisted teams and judging 4.15 PM - Break - Caffeine, Chai & Chatter 4.45 PM - Winner announcement & Awards ceremony 5.00 PM - Talk by Chief Guest Dr. Bill Curtis, Co-creator of CMM, PCMM & IEEE Fellow, USA 6.15 PM - Wrap up Timeline Sep 13, Sep 18, Sep 24, Oct 5, Oct Oct Nov 17, 2018 26, 28, 2018 19, 29, 12, 2018 2018 2018 2018 2018 First look Official launch Online chat / Registration Submission of Shortlist Watts launch Q&A ends final deck to announcement Humphrey review Awards 2018 Teaser will be sent Emailer with all the Prospective teams Teams will have to Participating teams Teams selected by necessary details can come online and make payment to submit their deck. evaluation will be sent to SPIN chat with the SPIN before 5th Oct and committee will be members and team at confirm their notified partners spinchennai.org participation website Steps to follow (Registrant) 1. Check out the link - https://in.explara.com/e/watts-humphrey-awards-2018 2. Pay the registration fee. Rs. 4000 / team (Max 5 members) before 5th Oct 3. Get your deck ready. (not more than 15 slides please) 4. Send your deck to [email protected] / [email protected] before 19th Oct 5. You will be notified once your presentation is a. Selected. That’s awesome! Make your way to grand venue for Watts Humphrey Awards 2018 presentation. b. Even not selected. No worries! You may still walk into the venue as a delegate / attendee. 6. You get 15 mins (10 mins talk & 5 mins Q&A) for the presentation Why should you participate 1. Share your case study / best practices to wider software community 2. Win the prestigious software quality guru Dr. Watts Humphrey award 3. Receive the award from Dr. Bill Curtis - Co-creator - CMMI, PCMM; IEEE Fellow, USA 4. Get a chance to publish your case study in the prestigious international journal - IJITCE, UK - www.ijitce.co.uk 5. All the registrants / participants will get 1 year complimentary SPIN Chennai membership. 6. 30% discount from the regular price of SPICON 2019 International conference. 7. Join the elite Watts Humphrey gallery at SPIN Chennai website. Partners & Supporters Hyderabad SPIN Bangalore SPIN VelTech TBI CXO Club Cyber Society of India Tamil Chamber of Commerce IEEE FICCI CSI eWIT CIOKlub PMI Institute of Directors IJITCE (UK based Journal Partner) Thank you so much! CSPIN Team Ask us anything - Ragavendra Prasath | [email protected] | 9944.111.920.