tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4514003879443285921.post6803398647748449082..comments2023-08-11T11:21:05.479+01:00Comments on ALLYGILL.CO.UK: The SPI Manifesto - What's It All About ?Ally Gillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08266980121207923495noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4514003879443285921.post-71410131380773317402012-07-11T18:53:54.437+01:002012-07-11T18:53:54.437+01:00Once again I am happy to publish comments from any...Once again I am happy to publish comments from any of the original creators of the manifesto, and I thank you for your response!<br /><br />Again, though, I reiterate my issue regarding the audience. Many initiatives fail because of poor management, leadership and sponsorship not because of poor practitioners. <br /><br />The key to successful process management is for sustained commitment and understanding by senior managers and senior executives. If they begin to start appreciating the issues facing the practitioners then maybe our success rate will start to increase. <br /><br />How to engage with these senior execs is still one of the biggest issues facing our community!<br /><br />Ally.Ally Gillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08266980121207923495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4514003879443285921.post-26081273276692656342012-07-11T15:35:37.070+01:002012-07-11T15:35:37.070+01:00Dear block-readers,
As the Editors of the SPI man...Dear block-readers,<br /><br />As the Editors of the SPI manifesto we hereby answer the “unanswered questions”.<br /><br />First, the real purpose of the SPI Manifesto is to gather knowledge on how to practice SPI. To do that we invited more than 50 very SPI experienced practitioners to a workshop at the EuroSPI conference that we then facilitated. The three core values and ten principles is the essence of best SPI practice. If you are interested in who the practitioners were you can take a look at the preface to the manifesto.<br /><br />Second, the intended audience is of course everyone interested in or practicing SPI.<br /><br />Third, we thought it to be both necessary and urgent to create such a manifesto because there is a need for it. Every week we can read about newly failed projects and improvements. Many of the “new” failures repetition of old failures. Hence a number of practitioners truly believed (to use the wording from the manifesto) that we needed to document our common knowledge; and so we did in the manifesto.<br /><br />The manifesto is published for free and can be downloaded without any cost from the internet. We explicitly decided against publishing the manifesto in an academic outlet – so in no way is the manifesto an academic exercise. Our aim was to maximize utility.<br /><br />Thank you for creating some discussion on the SPI manifesto.<br /><br />Jørn Johansen and Jan Pries-HejeJørn Johansenhttp://www.delta.dknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4514003879443285921.post-14059104891096878962012-06-10T15:52:22.487+01:002012-06-10T15:52:22.487+01:00I understand your point. To get a manifesto known ...I understand your point. To get a manifesto known world wide it needs a network of SPI ambassadors. At the moment in EuroSPI we cover 28 countries and unfortunanetly UK is not part of it. The reason is that our former founding partner from UK side was Qinetiq (UK defense research) and they were restructured in around 2005 and then we lost all our contacts there. We have this year on 5th September 2012 a joint workshop with the BCS (British computer society) in London to discuss and re-establish relationships with UK. This will refer to 2 initiatives, Ecqa.org and www.eurospi.net who both promote and certify the SPI nmanager. <br />I suggest that we could meet there. We also offer very experienced SPI professionals (your CV fits) to become ambassadors in their country.Dr Richard Messnarzhttp://www.iscn.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4514003879443285921.post-7749220002282305352012-05-28T17:00:59.791+01:002012-05-28T17:00:59.791+01:00Thank you for your comments - which I am happy to ...Thank you for your comments - which I am happy to publish here. But it's a shame you didn't take the opportunity to perhaps try and address my three main questions, which I still have not heard useful answers to. <br /><br />I still find that the majority of quality and process folk I meet aren't aware of the manifesto and certainly I find very few managers or leaders who are familiar with it. Promotion of the manifesto at EuroSPI is great, but as I said in the post I believe this type of promotion fails to hit the right targets, namely the C-level executives. The manifesto doesn't appear to have captured the imagination of our colleagues in the same way as, for example, the Agile manifesto did for the development community. So my other question still stands - what was its real intended purpose?<br /><br />For the record I am a business and software process consultant - not limited to CMMI - and I have been working in IT development and operations since I left university 28 years ago with a degree in Agricultural Science. I have spent the past 18 years as a practising process management specialist in many different companies, industries and countries around the world, which is where I learnt my trade and continue to do so!Ally Gillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08266980121207923495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4514003879443285921.post-79280238870321812792012-05-28T16:06:46.612+01:002012-05-28T16:06:46.612+01:00Well, I am a director of a company who is listed a...Well, I am a director of a company who is listed as one of the 7 accredited quality training partners in Automotive SPICE gor German Automotive industry. I left university (was a researcher) 17 years ago. I am one of the authors of the manifesto. Also Thomas Wegner is the quality manager of ZF SACHS as part of ZF Friedrichshafen AG (www.zf.cpom) as one of the largest companies in Automotive with 70000 staff. He is also co-author. And another Co-Author was Kouichi Kishida as a Key Japanese person who is the owner og the largest SW house in Japan. So I cannot follow really the argument that we were academics?<br />When I look at your profile you seem to be a CMMI consultant, with UC academic background.<br />The SPI manifesto was written by industrial managers of leading industry as well. <br />Also the SPI manifesto is promoted by EuroSPI and this yewar e.g. the key notes are KTM Motorsport quality head (winner company of world championships), Magna Powertrain (third largest Automotive Supplier of the world), and JMU (James Madison University (who host NASA research as well). <br />So what?Dr Richard Messnarzhttp://www.iscn.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4514003879443285921.post-80327522024764539632010-05-03T10:57:25.371+01:002010-05-03T10:57:25.371+01:00Thanks for your comments Paul. I think the comment...Thanks for your comments Paul. I think the comment about the 'native English' was probably meant for the post on LinkedIn but never mind.<br /><br />As for your statement that the manifesto is aimed at anyone involved in PI - well sure. But in that case, it's pretty much preaching to the converted, in which case why is there a need to create it. Why not just refer to a text like "CMMI Survival Guide" by Garcia & Turner or "Making Process Improvement Work" by Potter & Sakry?<br /><br />By clearly defining a target audience the manifesto could have been so much more.Ally Gillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08266980121207923495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4514003879443285921.post-15656117738262699372010-04-26T09:24:27.610+01:002010-04-26T09:24:27.610+01:00Thanks for drawing my attention to this manifesto ...Thanks for drawing my attention to this manifesto (via LinkedIn). I don't think it's too bad, and I write as a quality manager in a small software company who believes in a very pragmatic approach, never academic.<br /><br />Sure, it is apparent at a few points that the authors are not native English speakers, but 'so what'? It's very readable and while it might not be 100% original, the examples are clear and thought provoking.<br /><br />I would say the audience is pretty obviously anyone involved in PI - why do think this is unclear? It's not aimed at zookeepers, bankers, accountants, users of systems.....<br /><br />(Sorry, can't be bothered to create an id on any of the 'comment as' profiles)Paul Seligmannoreply@blogger.com