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International Professional Practice Partnership
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IFIP, CIPS, Inherent Quality
The skills framework information below was contained within a 5/30/2008 email to CIPS members from the Chair of the Canadian Council of Information Technology Professionals. For information about the Information Systems Professional designation, or the new Canadian IT Profession designation, contact gina@cips.ca (Gina is the CIPS Professional Standards Manager).
*International Information Technology Professional (IITP) Designation -
The first-ever IITP designation will be offered by CIPS in partnership with the International Federation of Information Processing Society - IFIP (a United Nations/UNESCO consultative body), and its global association partners when the IITP designation is launched world-wide in 2009. (CIPS is Canada’s representative in IFIP.) The IITP designation will be offered to more than 30 million IT practitioners around the world.
** Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA) -
Level 5: ensure, advise
Autonomy
Works under broad direction. Full accountability for own technical work or project/supervisory responsibilities. Receives assignments in the form of objectives. Establishes own milestones, team objectives and delegates assignments. Work is often self-initiated.
Influence
Influences organization, customers, suppliers and peers within industry on contribution of specialization. Significant responsibility for the work of others and for the allocation of resources. Decisions impact on success of assigned projects i.e. results, deadlines and budget. Develops business relationships with customers.
Complexity
Challenging range - variety of complex technical or professional work activities. Work requires application of fundamental principles in a wide and often unpredictable range of contexts. Understands relationship between specialization and wider customer/organizational requirements.
Business Skills
Advises on the available standards, methods, tools and applications in own area of specialization and can make correct choices from alternatives. Can analyze, diagnose, design, plan, execute and evaluate work to time, cost and quality targets. Communicates effectively, formally and informally, with colleagues, subordinates and customers. Demonstrates leadership. Clear understanding of the relationship between own area of responsibility/specialization to the employing organization and takes customer requirements into account when making proposals. Takes initiative to keep skills up to date. Maintains awareness of developments in the industry. Can analyze user requirements and advise users on scope and options for operational improvement. Demonstrates creativity and innovation in applying IT solutions for the benefit of the user.
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CIPS, Inherent Quality
CIPS Governance Model details, and other updates… expect more news from CIPS in the months and years on route to 2020 and beyond.
The new CIPS governance model brings all parts of the association - national, provincial, and sections - into better alignment to ensure a more unified CIPS that is better able to meet the day-to-day needs of its members.
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IFIP, CIPS, IT, Inherent Quality
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CATA, Alliance, CIPS, IT, Inherent Quality, Software Quality, Security, Zen
A survey by the Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance identifies the lack of best practices as the greatest challenge for IT Security Professionals. (read more)
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CIPS, IBM, Microsoft, Inherent Quality, Software Quality, Bell, Gartner, CGI, HP, IFIP, CSSA, BCS, ACS
A few bits of news that may interest you:
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CIPS National is seeking nominations for positions that become vacant on the National Board of Directors at the AGM on May 7, 2008. The AGM will be held in Ottawa, Ontario in conjunction with Summit 2008. All nominations must be received in the National office by 5:00 p.m. EST on March 28, 2008.
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Inherent Quality, Software Quality, IFIP, IBM, Microsoft, CIPS, Culminis, ITKE
Will news within 2008 bulletins elevate a knowledge sharing culture? A cohesive global community and profession can achieve great things by 2020. IBM (e.g., Rudin, Spainhower, Camenisch, etc.), Microsoft, and other major organizations, individuals and forces (e.g., Culminis, ITKE, CIPS, and so on) make what is now a large universe of software, technology and information professionals. Ideally competitors increasingly interconnect and work together to make significant advances into matters of high purpose. Thanks to all that eventually do or will work in this positive direction.
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Inherent Quality, Software Quality, CIPS, IBM, Fun
Innately the quality trek through the universe is an individual journey that is also about helping others and
building capabilities for good that increasingly enable the darkness of evil forces to be converted into light.
R U READY TO… SAVE THE DAY?
IBM knows that a powerful truth that helps save the day is that heroes must emerge and collaborate to transform individuals to teams for achieving increasingly greater results. This is likely a reason why IBM is often connected to people coming together. One way IBM does this is through events which they sponsor and host. For example the Rational Software Development Conference 2008, June 1-5 at Walt Disney World, click image above to “Meet the R-Heroes”. As another example, IBM is an elite sponsor of Summit 2008, where this year during the event being held May 7-9 in Ottawa, the Association of Public Sector Information Professionals will celebrate its 45th anniversary, and the Canadian Information Processing Society will celebrate its 50th. The theme for Summit 2008, Achieving New Heights — A New Personal Best, centers on personal growth and innovation, and achieving new heights for self and others such as related to project teams, the workplace, the larger community, and overall, society.
This post sends best wishes for success of all events being held during 2008. It also sends best wishes that all connected to software, technology and information will continually year after year (to 2020 and beyond), achieve new heights of personal and team bests that increasingly enable higher levels of intrinsic and pervasive fun, value and joy for all.
For more events see TechTarget Enterprise IT Events.
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Inherent Quality, Software Quality, CIPS, CobiT, IBM, ITIL, Sierra Systems
Excerpt from Inherent Quality Simplicity
“As far back as the days of Juran and Deming, quality products were manufactured efficiently as a result of inherent quality. So why do we all too often ignore the same in software development and systems implementation projects?” Question provided by a Director of IT and Project Management Audit. Remaining anonymous, he adds, “I believe it is due to the fact that construction and manufacturing are older professions than systems development. That said, since the beginning of time man has been developing systems of the non-computer sort, and this makes me think of a great quote by Machiavelli on risk that is so relevant to projects we often deliver. It basically says there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new system, for the initiator has the enmity of all who profit by the preservation of the old institution.” Looking within the quote, one may begin to better see the present needs for policing and ethics enforcement concurrent with maturing the profession and pursuing various opportunities for innate improvement. As an example for the latter, tying administrative tasks to job performance may be a good idea; however a better idea may be to identify which administrative tasks would benefit by replacement with automation, such as a software program that would eliminate the human data gathering and processing issue, while potentially adding an autocorrecting feature which could respond in AI fashion to the decisions the software program recommends, based on the information the software program generated from the raw data and embedded knowledge—reasoning logic. Making this less extreme, even if a software program was created to gather the data and produce an informative report, the administrative task could be streamlined and replaced with a higher-purpose human task of more value to the organization that could be tied to job, department, and corporate performance.
By the early part of the twenty-first century there were already many examples of, and opportunities for, making quality more inherent or occur more inherently within the industry, within the profession, or within an organization’s products, services, or resources. InherentQuality.Com and the associated Weblog can further help you see this, and I encourage you to acquaint yourself with the related content, which, among other things, states such things as: ITILv3 and CobiT 4.1 are positive examples of industry coming together more as one to reach common grounds for higher purposes. Such efforts result in, and will progressively continue to result in, greater levels of value, excellence, and simplicity for the world, and thereby bring greater and greater joy to the world. These efforts include harmonization initiatives from many perspectives, including relative to the evolving DNA and bodies of knowledge for a profession of general practitioners and emerging specialists. As the world continues to come together, quality continues to evolve. Of course, it will take continual open-minded thinking to continually produce and implement new means. To evolve quality, we will have to think differently. Our generation can ensure progress is continually designed to enhance joy for self and others. To do this we will need to identify and study and grow on mu answers to these and other questions. Is quality inherently part of your organization’s values, your competitor’s values, and your personal values? Likely the answer in each case is yes; however, in the future this must increasingly be the case and to higher degrees. Tom Brokaw says, Three Cups of Tea is, “not only a thrilling read, it’s proof that one ordinary person, with the right combination of character and determination, really can change the world.” From an inherent quality perspective, anyone can have the right combination of character and determination to help change the world. You have the power. Please use it to benefit the world and all within. In fact, use it to grow trust inherently throughout the world, so we can become more one.
Excerpt from Inherent Quality Simplicity
I believe that if one is taking care of details, the end result will come to place by itself. Inherent Quality Simplicity provides techniques for people to manage details for success.— Garry Fong, BSc, PMP, IQA, IQSA. Garry has over thirty years of experience including eighteen years with IBM and five with GE. His prior accomplishments include being a certified ISO 9000 Internal Auditor.
Excerpt from Inherent Quality Simplicity
One means to improve quality is for development teams and test teams to gain knowledge of the business through business requirements provided by business analysts. To support this, business analysts should develop business scenarios for creation of test cases, which can either be manually executed or entered into a test suite for automated execution. Developers and testers can watch for “holes” in the business design, as they consider the business requirements using the business scenarios as a guide.— Blaine Bey, I.S.P., Sierra Systems, CIPS 2007 Volunteer of the Year.
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