viernes, 24 de febrero de 2012

Information Manifesto Flyer


Information Management Manifesto in Brief

What is the manifesto about?

The Information Management (IM) Manifesto is a community vehicle for formalising a non-binding and persuasive code of conduct for the IM profession.

What is IM?

For this purpose of this initiative, IM is the collection and management of information from one or more sources and the distribution of that information to one or more audiences.

For the purpose of the current stage of the IM Manifesto, the initiative is primarily focused on Data Warehousing, Decision Support and Business Intelligence (Reporting, Data Visualization, Data Analytics, etc.)  It is however expected that the scope will grow in order to cover other areas of IM.

Why have an IM Manifesto group? 

The world of IM is in a poor state; levels of professionalism are at an all-time low; and as we move forward, the worse the reputation of the profession becomes. IM desperately needs an ethical and professional transformation, one that all professionals can contribute to and support. So, in the absence of any group of this kind, I decided to start the IM Manifesto initiative.

What is the IM Manifesto vision?

The aim is that within a year we will have a working code of conduct for the IM profession, and that the IM Manifesto will be providing a coherent basis for tangible advantages, such as:
  1. The IM Manifesto will be used by customers of IM professional services and technologies as a means to set criteria for the selection, contractual arrangements, quality assurance and management of relationships with IM suppliers.
  2. IM Professionals who have signed up for the IM Manifesto can benefit from their endorsement of the IM Manifesto.
  3. IM service and technology providers can clearly differentiate themselves in the open marketplace.

Dependencies

The success of the IM Manifesto will depend on individual commitment, collective endorsements and widespread adoption.


Martyn Richard Jones-Lovering
IM Manifesto 2012
Madrid, 24th February 2012


domingo, 12 de febrero de 2012

Information Management Manifesto: The Start

Information Management Manifesto:
The founding discussion document
The Information Management Manifesto founding document is now available at the following location: http://cambriano.es/content/manifesto/imManifestoDiscussion.001.20120212.pdf
We are uncovering better ways of improving the professionalism, integrity and effectiveness of Information Management, by creating, deploying and refining proven best principles, sound business, project management, architectural, analysis, modelling/design, development, quality assurance, testing, deployment, acceptance, operational continuity and evaluation practices.

Through this work we have come to value:

1. Respecting individual proven knowledge and experience, over... opinion, speculation and tools.
2. Agile and coherent solution approaches that work - repeatedly - over... vapourware, vendor hype and "make it up as you go along" methods.
3. Up close and intimate customer collaboration, over... dissonance, fear of the customer and capability immaturity.
4. Responding to change coherently by unleashing the power of iterative and agile IM, over... fighting fires with cooking oil, coal and gasoline.
5. An acute ability to lesson effectively, comprehend rapidly and do the right thing, over... sign a contract, bill the customer, fail to deliver, then run away.
6. Honesty, integrity, humility, intelligence and effort… over, suckering the punter.
7. Being true to ourselves and others about the extent and limits of our knowledge and experience, over… misguiding peers and customers with speculation and opinion dressed up as facts and first-hand knowledge.

Welcome to the Information Management Manifesto


Information Management Manifesto Initiative

The world of Information Management is in a poor state. Levels of professionalism are at an all-time low; disciplines such as Data Warehousing and Decision Support are awash with chancers, charlatans and dogma, and as time moves on, the worse the reputation of the profession becomes.

Information Management desperately needs an ethical and professional revolution, one that all professionals can contribute to and support. To this end, we as professionals need to create a democratic, global and self-imposed constitutional code of ethic that professional people of integrity will abide with and will feel that adds real value to the profession.

During 2012, cambriano energia will be working together with partners, clients, collaborators and peers in shaping and defining a DW / DSS Manifesto, which we consider to be a necessary and imperative initiative for promoting visible ethical and professional integrity in the DW / DSS discipline.

To this end we have established a series of touch points through which people can engage in, initiate and contribute to debates, discussions and discourse on the proposals for a IM manifesto, initially focusing on the areas of DW and Decision Support (BI, MIS, KM).

IM Manifesto Initiative Touchpoints

Twitter: @IMMANIFESTO
Associated Linkedin page for the IM*NET - the IM, DW and BI professional network group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/292721250763469/